Joe’s Kitchen: The SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER debut cookbook full of healthy family food and budget-friendly recipes from Celebrity MasterChef finalist and I’m a Celeb star, Joe Swash

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Actress and presenter Nadia Sawalha won the second series of Celebrity MasterChef after competing against the likes of Craig Revel Horwood, Gemma Atkinson, Pauline Quirke and Phil Tufnell. Inspired by his father, Swash wants to create the loving home life he experienced in his early years, even though their time together was cut short. Overall, I’ve got to thank my lucky stars that I had him for the amount of time I did, and the impact he had on my life,” says Swash. Joe Swash lives in Essex with his wife Stacey Solomon, and their children Rex, three, and Rose, one, as well as Zac, 14, Leighton, 10 and Harry, 15 from the pairs previous relationships.

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I’ve learned a lot and I know that I can provide good, tasty meals for my family without complicated techniques or expensive ingredients.Taking to Instagram, the dad-of-three wrote: “I’m so excited to tell you that I’m going to be an author! Instead Cox was joined by The Only Way Is Essex “star” Megan McKenna and actor-turned-reality-TV stalwart Joe Swash. As ever with MasterChef, there was liberal deployment of that overused word on reality contests - “journey”. Upon hearing Joe’s news about his cookbook on Loose Women today, viewers took to Twitter to discuss.

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Cox’s dishes were streets ahead, as evidenced by the awestruck reactions of judges Wallace and John Torode. It was after taking part in Celebrity MasterChef last year and reaching the final three that the amateur cook decided to put pen to paper: “It really gave me a lot of confidence in the kitchen. Getting to grips with making souffles on Celebrity MasterChef was a real stepping stone for me as a cook,” says Joe Swash, who now has a family cookbook out. The sport star was the first British Paralympian to win gold medals in multiple sports at the same Games after winning two at the 2016 Rio Games. This week will see Faye Winter, Nancy Dell'Olio, Paul Chuckle, Kae Kurd and Danny Jones be the first from the Celebrity MasterChef line-up to cook in the show's first heats, with the group taking on a street food challenge before whipping up their signature dinner party dish.

While he’s never had counselling, Swash says he’s always found cooking therapeutic, which is why he’s the main chef in his household: “I really get a buzz from it. He’d survived by the veneers of his teeth several times and it would’ve been a travesty if he’d won - not least because viewers saw far too much of his backside when he bent down to the oven. Executive publisher Lisa Milton and commissioning editor Cara Armstrong acquired world, all-language rights to Joe’s Kitchen: Fantastic Food for a Happy Family from Amanda Harris at YMU Group. Actress and presenter Lisa Faulkner, best known for her roles in Brookside and Holby City, won Celebrity MasterChef ten years ago, beating Christine Hamilton and Dick Strawbridge in the final.