Overview

• MasterChef UK and the BBC confirmed on Saturday that Saturday Kitchen host Matt Tebbutt will judge the next series of MasterChef: The Professionals.
• Tebbutt will join Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti for the 18th series, with guest judges set to appear in the early heats.
• The new series will air on BBC One and iPlayer, with a transmission date yet to be announced.
• The change follows an external review that upheld 45 of 83 allegations against Gregg Wallace and a separate racist-language complaint involving John Torode; both were removed, and Wallace issued an apology.
• Separate reports name Grace Dent and Anna Haugh as potential judges for the main amateur series, though the BBC has declined to comment.