MASTERCHEF 2022. It’s the big night for France 2, which is relaunching the MasterChef show seven years after it stopped on TF1 and NT1. Discover the candidates for this 2022 season.
[Mis à jour le 23 août 2022 à 20h] It took seven years for the MasterChef show to come out of the closet. In 2015, the show was deprogrammed from TF1 to finish its broadcast on NT1 before the channel announced that the culinary program would not return to its antennas in the future. Here we are in 2022, a year marked by the nostalgic return of certain brands including Star Academy, and MasterChef is trying its luck again, but this time on France 2! The culinary competition therefore passes on to the public service, led for the occasion by Agathe Lecaron (La Maison des Maternelles). The fundamentals of the show have not changed: it is about putting amateur cooks and cooks to the test against professional jurors. End goal? Win the final and pocket a check for €100,000.
There are 18 this year to try to win the title of MasterChef 2022. Eighteen amateur cooks are starting the culinary competition which is taking its first steps on France 2 after having evolved for years on the channels of the TF1 group. They are web designers, architects, trainers, car salespeople or even unemployed and all have a dream: to take on the challenge of the culinary competition and pocket the check for €100,000 promised to the winner.
- Alice (27) – web designer in Paris
- Caroline (28 years old) – responsible for solidarity mission in Bordeaux
- Clara (31) – interior designer at La Chappelle de Guinchay
- Dao (44 years old) – director of adult education in Geneva
- Déborah (24 years old) – creator of culinary content at Les Lilas
- Emmanuelle (46) – manager of a leisure center at Mas d’Agenais
- Eva (24) – actress in Toulouse
- Jean (39 years old) – consultant trainer in Lille
- Jean-François (49 years old) – communications director at Bois-Colombes
- Kimlinh (33) – unemployed in Draguignan
- Marc-Amaury (34 years old) – graphic designer in Nantes
- Morgan (33 years old) – car salesman in Baisy-Thy
- Raoul (47 years old) – logistics director in pharmacy in Lille
- Samira (36 years old) – childcare worker in Dilbeek
- Sébastien (38 years old) – scoop in Lyon
- Sylvie (55) – flower grower in Varen
- Vincent (34 years old) – salesman in Marsillargues
- Zachary (26) – hydraulic engineer in Bordeaux
The MasterChef 2022 jury has been partly redesigned for the occasion of this return. Each week, MasterChef candidates will have to deal with three starred chefs who will judge their performances. Already present in four of the previous seasons, chef YVes Camdeborde is back in front of the cameras of MasterChef. He is accompanied for the first time by chefs Thierry Marx, who is more accustomed to the Top Chef sets, and Georgiana Viou. This year, the candidates will also have to compete in inventiveness to impress the guest chefs who have come to evaluate them on specific challenges. France 2 revealed the list of these prestigious guests: Christian Constant, Frédéric Anton, Alessandra Montagne, Simone Zanoni, Emeline Aubry, Olivier Bellin, Fanny Rey, Pierre Augé, Mory Sacko, Christophe Michalak and Eric Briffard.
To launch its return to entertainment, France 2 is counting on MasterChef 2022. Indeed, the public service channel has announced that its culinary competition will be broadcast every Tuesday evening from Tuesday, August 23, 2022 and this from 9:10 p.m.