The Varma family

The Varma family from Walsall are food obsessed. No food day is the same as they’re constantly trialing new recipes.

From salmon tandoori to a great tasting shepherd’s pie, they love to experiment. They’re passionate about good home cooking and focused on using quality ingredients. They hate bland food and they’re always looking for ways to make a dish sing. This family love their curries and daals but they’re also fans of British staples, and since her honeymoon in Greece youngest daughter Naina has even tried her hand at making a Souvlaki.

Mother knows best. A self-confessed control freak, she rules the roost in the kitchen and if she doesn’t like how her daughters are cooking she’ll be the first to tell them. Kavita is a messy cook and it frustrates mum and Naina. The Varmas are competitive and want to win. They think the other families will add an edge, and that a good healthy dose of competition will help them focus and up their game.

They do pretty much everything together - holidays, cinema, gym sessions - and they also cook with each other every day without fail.

• Pictured: Kavita, Naina and Raj

The reigning champion of BBC One’s Celebrity MasterChef, Angellica’s intelligence, wit and warmth shine through every time.

With 17 years of network TV experience under her belt, she has emerged as a significant presenter of factual and entertainment programmes, including Ill Gotten Gains (BBC One), 50/50 (CBBC), Something For The Weekend (BBC Two) and many more. She has also been a part of The One Show since its inception as a reporter and with regular stand-ins as a main presenter.

Born and raised in Oldstead, North Yorkshire, into a family of farmers, chef Tommy Banks’s passion for food and nature flourished from a young age.

Tommy’s family bought The Black Swan just as he finished school and he started working there with no real intention of becoming a chef, but by 2013, at the age of 24, Tommy was awarded a Michelin Star - making him the youngest Michelin-starred chef in Britain at the time.