20-05-2025
Coronation Street legend who was killed off signs up for Celebrity MasterChef
Coronation Street star Katie McGlynn is set to cook up a storm in the kitchen on Celebrity MasterChef.
The former Waterloo Road actress will appear alongside Blue singer Antony Costa, Love Island beauty Uma Jammeh and RuPaul's Drag Race star Ginger Johnson when the hit BBC One show returns later this year.
31-year-old McGlynn played Sinead Tinker in the ITV soap and started getting into food after leaving the famous Wetherfield cobbles.
The actress also appeared on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.
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According to reports, she jumped at the chance to show off her culinary skills when approached to take part earlier this year.
A TV source said: 'The celebrity version of Masterchef has already been filmed and there's a great mix of people this year, including Katie.
'She brings a bit of glamour as well as that northern sense of humour.
'Viewers are going to be really impressed with the standard this year.'
After leaving Corrie back in 2019, Katie admitted that she struggled with comfort eating following her character Sinead Tinker's harrowing death.
The following year she won the NTA for Serial Drama Performance and embarked on a health and fitness programme and started cooking meals from scratch.
The source added: 'Katie is all about making healthy, balanced meals and wanted to see how far she could push her cooking skills on a show like Masterchef.'
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The Cumbrian food critic was announced by the BBC as Wallace's replacement in December after he was axed due to a series of complaints about his alleged behaviour.
Speaking to Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on This Morning back in December, Grace confessed it was a "dream come true" to be asked to fill Wallace's shoes.
"It's one of those wonderful shows on British TV, and when you go out into the public, you feel that you can't eat anywhere in privacy ever again, you can't even go into a supermarket without people looking into your trolley and going, 'I can't believe she's bought that.'"
