- The programme will begin filming at the end of September in Dublin, where the international hub where the different versions of the format are filmed is located.
In her first job as host of a television programme, Blanca Romero will be in charge of ‘Next Level Chef’, the new cooking talent show that the channel is producing in collaboration with Shine Iberia (Banijay Iberia) and in which chefs Francis Paniego, Marcos Morán and Rakel Cernicharo will be the mentors.
A semi-finalist in the eighth edition of ‘MasterChef Celebrity’, Blanca Romero has extensive experience as an actress in film and television, even obtaining a Goya Award nomination for the role with which she debuted on the big screen in ‘After’ (2009). She has been part of the cast of the feature films ‘Los muertos no se tocan, nene’, ‘Fin’, ‘El amor no es lo que era’ and ‘La abadesa’. On television, he has given life to various characters in series such as ‘Física o Química’, ‘Bajo sospecha’ and ‘Bienvenidos a Edén’, among others.
‘Next Level Chef’ is the Spanish adaptation of the successful international format developed by Studio Ramsay, the production company of the legendary chef Gordon Ramsay, and produced by FOX Alternative Entertainment and Studio Ramsay. In the US, it was the most watched cooking show premiere in history. The third season premiered at the end of January and garnered over seven million viewers on Sunday prime time. A fourth season of the format is currently in production and will premiere before the end of the year on FOX. In the UK it has been broadcast on ITV1 and France is already preparing its adaptation.
This is what ‘Next Level Chef’ will be like
Three groups of chefs -professionals, amateurs and foodie influencers- will have to demonstrate how they cope in the kitchens of the programme, which will take place on a set with a vertical structure divided into three levels with three different kitchens: the upper level, with a state-of-the-art kitchen; the intermediate level, with a standard kitchen; and the lower level, where there will only be a precarious installation with basic elements. To complicate the tests, the participants will have the ingredients to cook on a mobile platform that goes up and down the heart of the structure, so that they will have to decide quickly which products to take. Some will be lucky enough to choose good raw materials and others will have to make do with leftovers to create the culinary proposals on which they will be judged by the mentors.