Career: At the age of 25, Torode moved to the UK to further his culinary career, joining the Conran group and working his way up through a series of top London restaurants. He has since owned various London restaurants. Torode got a taste for TV work when he appeared as a food expert on This Morning, but he hated being asked to demonstrate recipes for what he describes as "cheap food", so quit and vowed never to cook on TV again. It was MasterChef that really made him a household name when it relaunched in 2005. Since then it has become a huge, prime-time hit, moving from BBC Two to BBC One and spawning several spin-offs. He's also fronted John Torode's Australia, a series about cuisine in his home country.

Career: Faulkner didn't like modelling, so turned to acting. Early roles came in L'Amant, Le Peril Jeune, A Feast at Midnight, and Casualty. Dangerfield was her first big success, followed by Brookside, And the Beat Goes On and The Scarlet Tunic. In 1999, she signed up for Holby City, the series which made her name, and stayed for three years. Little-seen movie The Baby Juice Express followed. Faulkner tried to crack Hollywood, but returned to the UK to star in Burn It and Spooks. She has guest starred in BBC drama New Tricks and was in the second series of ITV's Murder in Suburbia. Her career went into a new direction after winning Celebrity MasterChef in 2010. She now writes cookery books and presents cooking shows.