Liberty X singer Michelle Heaton had a kitchen disaster during the latest episode of Celebrity MasterChef.
Michelle Heaton admitted she was “absolutely gutted” after completely burning her dish on Celebrity MasterChef.
The Liberty X star is amongst the celebrities battling it out on the latest series of the BBC show, alongside Love Island’s Chris Hughes, writer Dawn O’Porter, soul icon Jaki Graham and actor Jamie Lomas.
She was creating a halloumi burger with sweet chilli jam and sweet potato fries when disaster struck. The singer left her sweet potatoes in the oven too long and discovered they had burnt to a crisp when she checked on them.
She let out a gasp as she retrieved the charred chips, before burying her face in her hands, reports Wales Online.
“Oh, no!” she cried out. “I actually can’t believe it. Burned my sweet potato fries.”
Dawn had been granted an additional 10 minutes cooking time after triumphing in an earlier taste challenge, and witnessing Michelle’s mishap, she offered to share it with her.
“Can I gift it?” she asked. But judge Grace Dent informed her: “I am sorry, but you can’t.”
Michelle refused to surrender and swiftly prepared some tiny sweet potato cubes to present instead.
She declared that she would simply have to “hope for the best” during judging, confessing: “I am absolutely gutted.”
“You had a bit of a disaster,” judge John Torode observed as she presented her creation.
“I had a massive one,” she acknowledged, though he reassured her: “You picked yourself up and you went and sorted it out. That’s what MasterChef is all about, Michelle. Good on you.”
The singer received some positive feedback for her dish in the end, with John commenting that the halloumi was “cooked really nicely”. However, he felt her brioche bun was “on the edge of too sweet”.
Reflecting on her performance, Michelle said she had been feeling tearful after the mistake.
But she went on: “I am feeling OK considering I had a massive disaster.
“I was about to cry, but I didn’t, because I usually do. And I just ploughed on. And I’m really, really happy that I did, because I learned something about myself.”
Celebrity MasterChef airs on BBC One.