Cooking With The Stars is back for a third series as eight famous faces are paired up with eight renowned chefs for a culinary battle royale.
Emma Willis and Tom Allen return to preside over this year's crop, which includes an acting great, a camp icon singer and someone veeeeery familiar to one of the hosts.
Scroll on to meet this year's celebrity chefs!
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Chris Eubank
Age: 56
Occupation: Former boxing champ
Chef Partner: Jack Stein
Cooking abilities: "I love cooking. Doing it on the TV show, I can't do it the way they know how but I do it the way my mother subconsciously taught me. And my food will always taste better than my adversaries or my competitors! My presentation isn't going to be emanating but the taste will always make you sigh because I'm always cooking from my mother's spirit. That's right, no one beats a mother's cooking!"
Favourite cuisine: "Jamaican - there is no food like Jamaican food. Everything else, they can bump it up and talk it this way and talk it that way but you can't compare it to Jamaican food. You can't beat the taste. We use green bananas. We use yams which are different carbohydrates, which are powerful - it's powerful food and it tastes amazing."
Ideal dinner guests: "Muhammad Ali one. Jack Johnson two. Mike Tyson three. If you look at their careers, no one can come close to them - no one."
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Claire Richards
Age: 45
Occupation: Steps singer, Knitter
Chef Partner: Tony Singh
Cooking abilities: "I've been bigged up quite a bit by Tony - he's got a lot of faith in me so I think he'd probably say I'm quite good. I'm in the middle I think - I'd say a three. I understand certain flavours but I'm certainly not an expert. I know a lot of stuff about nothing, generally!"
Favourite cuisine: "I love a good burger and not these great thick patties but the American style with grilled onions and cheese in a nice soft bun. I do love that sort of stuff and some crunchy fries."
Ideal dinner guests: "Elvis Presley - I was born the day Elvis died. He died on 16th August 1977 and I was born at 1:30am on 17th August so in my head it was still the 16th in America with the time difference. My Mum said she woke up in the hospital after she'd had me and all the nurses were crying and it was the front page of all the newspapers the day I was born. I've always had this thing that we crossed somewhere across the Atlantic and bumped into each other and that was my destiny mapped out forever. Prince as well, I was gutted when he died because he was one of my big ones. And then either Ian McKellen or Richard Attenborough."
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Indiyah Polack
Age: 24
Occupation: Former Love Island star
Chef Partner: Ellis Barrie
Cooking abilities: "After coming on the show, I've realised there is a different level! Everyone has different taste buds and Michelin-starred chefs like different things."
Favourite cuisine: "Anything Caribbean or Korean - I love Pan Asian food."
Ideal dinner guests: "Definitely Rihanna. Nicki Minaj and Cillian Murphy - I have a little bit of a crush on him so he can come round. If he could come as Thomas Shelby, that would be even better."
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Jason Watkins
Age: 60
Occupation: British acting royalty
Chef Partner: April Jackson
Cooking abilities: "I'm 'Mr Bland' and that term seems to have been coined and bandied about quite a lot. At home I don't do much cooking, my wife is a much better cook than I am and likes to cook. Over the years I've sort of stepped back and let Clara do the cooking and that's good in one way but also I've let that happen and I think I shouldn't have let that happen. I need to do more of the work so if I get better at it then I'm more likely to be able to do more meals for the family which is what I want to do."
Favourite cuisine: "I like Italian cuisine as it's very fresh - fresh pasta, fresh salads and fish. I like Mediterranean food but I also like Japanese food and Scandinavian food. I love fresh fish."
Ideal dinner guests: "I'd have April as she's been brilliant. Somebody I would like to cook for would be a philosopher. Isn't it nice when you eat and you talk about philosophy? Plato or someone like that or Sophocles and Jean Paul Sartre. And maybe an artist like Barbara Hepworth."
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Joanna Page
Age: 46
Occupation: Actress and presenter, best known as Stacey from Gavin & Stacey
Chef Partner: Michael Caines
Cooking abilities: "I came into this and thought it would be really relaxed, it's not going to be a lot of pressure and I'll come out of this having learnt a few basic skills. It's utterly terrifying! I'm with Michael and he's a Michelin-starred chef - he's off the scale, he's amazing, his taste, his depth of flavour, he's just wonderful. He's introduced me to a passion for cooking and food that I never knew existed. Since working with him now, in my day-to-day life when I'm making an omelette I'm sprinkling parsley on it or adding a bit of parmesan, seasoning everything."
Favourite cuisine: "I don't know. I don't have anything specific. I like everything but I do really love seafood - I adore scallops."
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Matt Willis
Age: 40
Occupation: Busted star, Husband of Emma
Chef Partner: Shelina Permalloo
Cooking abilities: "I'm definitely not very good but I get by!"
Favourite cuisine: "I love Japanese food. I spent quite a lot of time in Japan with the band and I fell in love with Japanese culture."
Ideal dinner guests: "I'm a big fan of Russell Brand - I find him so fascinating and intelligent. I'd love to have Judi Dench round - I find her incredible and Robert De Niro. Those three would be amazing."
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Peter Andre
Age: 50
Occupation: Singer and presenter
Chef Partner: Rosemary Shrager
Cooking abilities: "I cook at home but it's always the same five dishes - the standard five dishes which I do every week. The kids love it and I'm used to it but the difference is that I do it in my own time. I sometimes put things in the oven and don't have to worry about it until later in the day. It's very different doing it within a time limit. And being taught by someone who is really amazing at their craft and you've got to try and not let them down - that's tough but it's a part of the experience."
Favourite cuisine: "There are so many. I love Italian food, I've always felt drawn to it. I love the flavours of Italy because there are elements of the Mediterranean but I also love Middle Eastern food because there are elements of the Mediterranean. If the food is done right, it's too hard to pick!"
Ideal dinner guests: "Elvis Presley, the Queen and Nelson Mandela."
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Samia Longchambon
Age: 40
Occupation: Actress, aka Coronation Street's Maria Connor
Chef Partner: Jean-Christophe Novelli
Cooking abilities: "I do my best, I like trying new stuff but I always have to follow a recipe exactly, I'm not very intuitive."
Favourite cuisine: "I love curries. I love a Friday night curry at home with a glass of wine, watching a box set. But Lebanese food will always have a special place in my heart because my Dad was Lebanese - that's a special kind-of food for me."
Ideal dinner guests: "Jean-Christophe - he could do the cooking! Madonna because I've always been a massive fan. And Michael McIntyre to provide the laughs!"
Cooking With The Stars begins Tuesday at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX.
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