I've watched this programme since it first started and I can honestly say that the standard has dropped every year to the point that people are getting thru to semi finals who can't even cook fish!!
I asked Mr Alba tonight why we hadn't been watching it (he loves cooking programmes, I'm sure for devious reasons)
We're now thinking we don't watch it cos we don't know who most of the 'celebrities' are.
Age maybe ?? (sob!)
I don't watch Masterchef of either type, but when Mr Clover and I watch any celeb version of any programme we look at each other as each person is introduced to shake our heads and say 'Nope, no idea'. I don't know if it's age or, we've got better things to concern ourselves with, alba. :)