Cooking With The Stars 2024: release date, celebrity line-up and everything we know about season 4

Cooking with the Stars 2024 hosts Emma Willis and Tom Allen.
Cooking with the Stars season 4 hosts Emma Willis and Tom Allen. (Image credit: ITV)

Cooking With The Stars 2024 is here with Emma Willis and Tom Allen back at the helm of the culinary contest's fourth season. 

This series will see celebrities Carol Vorderman, comedian Katherine Ryan, Paralympian Ellie Simmonds, athlete Linford Christie, Strictly dancer Pasha Kovalev, model Abbey Clancy, TV personality Christopher Biggins and YouTuber Harry Pinero take on a series of intense cooking battles. But which one will be able to handle the heat and win the coveted golden frying pan?

Emma Willis says: “I’m so excited to be heading back into the Cooking with the Stars kitchen alongside Tom Allen for an all new series. We have a brilliant new line-up of celebrities who are set to be put to the test. You never know what their capabilities are which makes it a lot of fun. And if we’re lucky, we get to mop up the leftovers from the worktops."

Tom Allen adds: “I cannot believe how lucky I am to watch another batch of celebrities - all pretty much clueless in the kitchen — turning out the most amazing dishes. All in a bid to get their hands on my golden frying pan. Emma and I are back in the Cooking with the Stars kitchen and we are over the moon!”

Here’s everything you need to know about the fourth series of Cooking With The Stars on ITV1…

Cooking With The Stars 2024 release date

Cooking With The Stars 2024 will be shown on ITV1 on Tuesday, July 30 at 8pm and the show will then air weekly.

The series will also be available on ITVX, STV and STV player in the UK.

Cooking with the Stars 2024 — meet the celebrities for season 4

Celebrities for the 2024 series of Cooking With The Stars are comedian Katherine Ryan, model Abbey Clancy, presenter Carol Vorderman, Olympic gold-winning sprinter Linford Christie, Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds, presenter Christopher Biggins, Strictly dancer Pasha Kovalev and YouTuber Harry Pinero. 

Carol Vorderman.

Carol Vorderman will be showing off her cooking skills in Cooking With The Stars season 4. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Strictly Come Dancing Ellie Simmonds

Strictly Come Dancing sta and Paralympian Ellie Simmonds takes part in Cooking With the Stars in 2024. (Image credit: BBC)

Strictly Come Dancing - pasha

Former Strictly pro Pasha Kovalev will be hoping to shine in the Cooking With The Stars kitchen.

Cooking With The Stars 2024 — the premise 

Cooking With The Stars 2024 sees eight celebrities are paired with professional chefs who mentor them in order to transform them from amateur to expert in just weeks. Under their mentor’s guidance, the celebs will try to create the winning dish in a series of cooking battles. The losers of each battle will have to compete in a Cook-Off, which is judged blind by all the chefs. This means the loser could be sent home by their own mentor. 

Is there a trailer? 

No, not yet but if one is released, we’ll post it on here. 

All about the hosts Emma Willis and Tom Allen

Emma Willis has hosted numerous shows, including The Voice UK, The Voice Kids, The Circle, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! NOW!, Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother and The World Cook. Between 2018 and 2022 she fronted the series Emma Willis: Delivering Babies in which she trained to be a midwife. In 2024 she'll be co-hosting the Netflix series Love Is Blind with her husband, the Busted musician and persenter Matt Willis. 

Comedian Tom Allen hosts The Apprentice: You’re Fired and has also presented Ready or Not, The Joy of Missing Out, the Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice and Sunday Brunch

Tom Allen and Emma Willis for Cooking with the Stars 2023.

Tom Allen and Emma Willis co-hosting Cooking With The Stars in 2023. (Image credit: ITV/South Shore)
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