Wynne Evans topped 2023 Movie star MasterChef champion
The Welsh opera singer, 51, beat Emmerdale actress Amy Walsh and former Love Island competitor Luca Bish within the closing spherical of BBC One’s movie star cooking competitors on Friday.
Evans, greatest referred to as the moustachioed tenor from the Go Compare adverts, stated: “This is a brilliant feeling.
When you start to believe in yourself, that’s when good things start to happen
“The kids will love this: they’ll be like ‘Dad! I can’t believe you did it when all you cook for us is beans on toast’.
“The experience has totally changed my life. It has just been beautiful and I can’t thank (co-presenters) Gregg (Wallace) and John (Torode) and everybody here at MasterChef enough.
“When you start to believe in yourself, that’s when good things start to happen. I don’t know how a MasterChef winner celebrates but I know how a bloke from Carmarthen celebrates.”
His successful meal, ready over two hours, included a starter of Carmarthen-Japanese sumo tuna tartare with avocado, edamame beans and wasabi, served with deep-fried cockle popcorn and a mango egg.
This was adopted by a foremost course of cannon of lamb served on samphire with wild garlic, porcini mushrooms and lamb-rendered fried bread, with pommes dauphine and a fondant leek, completed with a purple wine and purple currant jus.
Evans opted to reference his Welsh heritage additional within the dessert course, making a conventional bara brith tea loaf accompanied by Caerphilly cheese and fig jam, and served with brie ice cream on crumbled bara brith and poached figs.
He stated: “I think these dishes represent everything that I am – local produce, stuff that I can easily get at home, and everything that I like to eat.”
Torode stated: “Every single dish tells a story. His food, it’s exciting, it’s ambitious, and it’s got a little bit of artistic flare.
“He’s a proud Welshman with a big heart.”
Wallace stated: “Wynne gives us theatre. I have never seen a celebrity like him ever before and I’m not sure we ever will again.”
Evans noticed off competitors from 19 different celebrities together with Strictly Come Dancing skilled Dianne Buswell, Black Eyed Peas rapper apl.de.ap and The Inbetweeners actor James Buckley.
Previous movie star winners embody former Britain’s Next Top Model host Lisa Snowdon, retired athlete Greg Rutherford, EastEnders actor John Partridge, TV presenter Angellica Bell, ex-Pussycat Dolls singer Kimberly Wyatt and former rugby participant Matt Dawson.