Squoosh! Looks who is back for Masterchef Professionals!

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It's only Marcus Wareing. Starts next week. Are we ready?

That banana souffle looked wonderful. Looking forward to knockout week! I'm always amazed how quickly I forget the people from the first week. Sadly, Gregg appears to be back again. Into every life a little rain must fall...

Saw Monica on The Box cookery show, it was funny seeing her try to be tactful to the home cooks! Still on iplayer, episode 21. Well worth a watch.

Also have a minor crush on William Sitwell after seeing him being lovely on the box too, sadly that episode is no longer available but I will be replaying the expression on his face after eating Bobby's pudding tonight for some time...

Monica is my girl crush.

I think I'm the only person who doesn't mind Gregg I mean, I don't love him or anything, but I do think they need a non-chef judging most of the dishes - it's like with the critic round, there's actually different feedback from chefs and non-chefs.

Essex boy really pulled it out of the bag last night. That chocolate dessert .

I missed yesterday's show and with rural Scotland broadband speeds iPlayer is too tedious. Who went through?

Igneococcus the one with the glasses and huge holes in his ears went out.

Oh good chemenger I couldn't even look at him properly. I think at one point I could see Greg through those holes, which was just weird.

'I think at one point I could see Greg through those holes, which was just weird'

Another one here who has no problem with Gregg. I think he's quite funny.

God yes, those ears were gross. I couldn't stop staring at them. There was some show on recently where a young cafe chef was sent to some Michelin starred restaurant to train for a week, he had earrings like that and the first thing the Michelin starred chef said was for him to take them out.

They just look so unhygienic!

People like Gregg?

Loved Essex boy's triumph. He's so sweet.

Loved the look of Bobby's soufflé although I could have done without William Sitwell's sex faces.

Ear lobe stretchy things makes me feel a bit

Apparently the lobes 'ooze' if not cleaned regularly.

Gregg makes my teeth itch, I bloody love the critics rounds where he's nowhere to be seen.
It's so much calmer without his big pudding face gawping down at all the plates, with all his comedy expressions.

If I heard him say one more time 'it's okay, no one is going home at this stage' I may well have smashed my telly. Talk about stating the bleeding obvious.

'Also have a minor crush on William Sitwell after seeing him being lovely on the box too, sadly that episode is no longer available but I will be replaying the expression on his face after eating Bobby's pudding tonight for some time...'

There is no hope for you.

Gregg the Gurning Git is level pegging with Noel Edmonds for top spot on my Most Arse Clenchingly Irritating TV Personality of All Time list.

Those three judges are my favourite combination of MC judges. Judging can't get more pretentious than this and I had to go to the panto, sigh.

I don't like Gregg. I just don't hate him as much as everyone else seems to!

I'm afraid in my world even mild indifference to Gregg is akin to saying you'd like to cover his naked body in rosewater foam and lick it off.

Now I'm picturing him naked, covered in foam, and nodding his head like the Churchill's dog.

You've only got yourself to blame now

You're right. I'm now trying to picture Marcus' furry body instead.

...furry Marcus with that twinkle in his eye. I am having totally inappropriate thoughts for a 60 year old woman and you know what? I just don't care!

How can you tolerate a man who can get a spoonful of pudding in his mouth sideways ?

The nodding dog and foam image has made me feel a bit ill

Thursday is the best day - when it's just Marcus and Monica and the critics. Well Marcus really - the others can take a back seat.

As far as anyone in our house can tell, Greg is purely a human timepiece. How else (other than a watch, clock or timer) would the chefs know when they've got THIRTY SECONDS LEFT. Or that it's time to GET IT ON THE PLATE?

And I must insist on a clarification. I think 'Essex boy' is in fact 'Hertfordshire boy'.