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Samantha Vallejo-Nágera Exits MasterChef; RTVE Taps ‘Delicious Martha’ for Season 14 Jury

RTVE says the refresh aims to deepen MasterChef’s connection with digital audiences.

Overview

  • RTVE confirms Samantha Vallejo-Nágera will leave the MasterChef jury after 13 years and 38 editions.
  • Food creator Marta Sanahuja, known as Delicious Martha, joins Jordi Cruz and Pepe Rodríguez as MasterChef 14 enters production.
  • The broadcaster frames the change as a strategy to expand the show’s social reach, noting a digital community exceeding five million followers.
  • Sanahuja brings roughly two million followers and recent honors, including Canal Cocina’s Bloguera de Oro and two Yummy awards.
  • Vallejo-Nágera thanked the program and signaled new audiovisual and gastronomy–lifestyle projects, as media note RTVE has not clarified whether her exit was voluntary.