Kitchen WARS!

EMMA WILLIS and TOM ALLEN on hosting TV's hottest cookery contest

- REBECCA FLETCHER

COOKING WITH THE STARS

TUESDAY, 8PM, ITV COOKERY

Get ready for temperatures to soar in the Cooking with the Stars kitchen as the epic battle of the frying pans enters its fourth week.

‘Now that the competition has started heating up, everybody wants to win!’ says Emma Willis, who co-hosts the ITV show with comedian Tom Allen.

Here, Emma, 46, and Tom, 39, talk twists, top tasting tips and the need to wear Spanx...

Is it us or are the celebrities getting really competitive?!

EMMA Ha! I think they all enter assuming that it’s going to be a bit of fun – and it absolutely is – but then they become so invested in it because their chef is so invested in them. They want to win it for their chef.

TOM They are all competitive. Even the most laid-back sweet ones are silent assassins!

Are the celebs’ professional- chef partners getting equally ambitious?