Ginger Johnson for Celebrity MasterChef 2025 / BBC
Age: 37
Known For: Drag superstar
Why did you want to take part in the show?
“I entered Celebrity MasterChef because I love a challenge and this is so far out of my comfort zone. It’s not what I do at all in my everyday life or my working life, and I want to see what I’m made of.”
How does your cooking go down with friends and family?
“My favourite dish to cook is steak (medium rare!) and chips, with loads of butter and garlic and rosemary. Luckily, that’s also my favourite thing to eat, so those two things work together quite well.”
What is your favourite dish to cook vs. your favourite to eat?
“My ultimate comfort food is fish pie, because it reminds me of Sunday afternoons after I played rugby when I was a kid. I would come home covered in mud, sopping wet and freezing cold, and then we’d often have fish pie for lunch. So now I associate it with that.”
What is your ultimate comfort food and why?
“I didn’t know what my friends and family thought about my cooking until I told them I was going on MasterChef, and I don’t think they have any confidence in me whatsoever. So let’s see who’s right, me or them!”
Celebrity MasterChef begins Monday at 9pm on BBC One or from 6am via iPlayer.
