Cristina Cifuentes will be a contestant on MasterChef Celebrity 9. The former president of the Community of Madrid joins the new edition of the cooking reality show, which continues to close the contestants who will fight to win the 75,000 euros prize to donate to a non-profit organization profit of your choice.
El Televisero thus confirms what will be the big signing of the next season, and which will confirm Cifuentes as one of the most attractive characters on television since she left politics, after her participation in various programs, either as a collaborator or a contestant.
The former leader of the Popular Party of Madrid has spent several years as a collaborator on current affairs programs on Mediaset España (such as Todo es Lie, The AR Program or currently, on TardeAR), but has also tried her luck in other types of television formats. The Madrid native has participated in Traitors (HBO Max) and Telecinco’s The Last Supper.
It is not the first time that his name was heard for cooking talent, since in its sixth edition, which Miki Nadal and Juanma Castaño won, he was one of the names that the production company was considering as a possible new contestant. Finally, the former politician did not reach an agreement with RTVE.
Three years later, the time has come for Cifuentes to demonstrate his skills in the kitchen in front of Pepe Rodríguez, Jordi Cruz and Samantha Vallejo-Nágera. To date, he has only shown that he is not very good at making homemade mayonnaise, as he demonstrated in Mi Casa es la Tuya in 2018.
The aforementioned media was in charge of confirming a few hours ago the first contestant of the new edition, Pocholo Martínez-Bordiú. Baron de Gotor, whose last television participation was as a defender of his nephew, Bosco Martínez-Bordiú, in Supervivientes; He thus faces culinary talent, whose winner of the last edition was the Colombian actress Laura Londoño.
After the signing of Pocholo Martínez-Bordiú and Cristina Cifuentes for Masterchef Celebrity 9 came to light, the Spanish Television contest did not want to waste time and this Thursday confirmed the official list of contestants. These two famous faces are joined by: actors Hiba Abouk, Francis Lorenzo, María León, Rubén Ochandiano and Jose Lamuño; the singer Pitingo; the comedian and presenter Nerea Garmendia; the stylist Pelayo Díaz; content creators Inés Hernand and Marina Rivers; the journalist, comedian and member of Gomaespuma Juan Luis Cano; the athlete Raúl Gómez, and the gallery owner and artist Topacio Fresh.