Junior MasterChef Greece explained

Genre:Cooking
Director:
  • Panos Georgiou (1)
  • Costas Tripylas (2)
Presenter:Maria Mpekatorou
Judges:
  • Lefteris Lazarou
  • Yiannis Loukakos
  • Dimitris Skarmoutsos
  • Eleni Psyhouli
  • Manolis Papoutsakis
  • Magky Tabakaki
Country:Greece, Cyprus
Language:Greek
Num Seasons:2
Num Episodes:46
Runtime:60 minutes (including commercials)
Company:Season 1:
Studio ATA
Season 2:
EndemolShine Group
Channel:Mega Channel (1)
Star Channel (2)

Junior MasterChef Greece is a Greek competitive cooking game show. It is an adaptation of the Australian show Junior MasterChef Australia. It is a spin-off of MasterChef Greece, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features contestants aged 8 to 12 in season 1 and in season 2 features contestants aged 8 to 13. The show began airing on 30 November 2011 on Mega Channel. On 13 September 2018 began airing the second season on Star Channel.

Hosts and judges

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Seasons
12
Dimitris Skarmoutsos
Lefteris Lazarou
Yiannis Loukakos
Maria Mpekatorou
Eleni Psyhouli
Manolis Papoutsakis
Magky Tabakaki

Series overview

SeasonNumber of contestantsNumber of episodesOriginally airedClassification of first trinity
First airedLast airedNetworkWinnerRunner-upThird place
1122030 November 20115 February 2012Mega ChannelLilian EmvalotiMargarita MarmaraElsa Kletsa-Kalimpasieri
2222613 September 201824 December 2018Star ChannelKonstantinos ChristopoulosPopi AnevlaviKatia Ritzaki

Series synopsis

Season 1 (2011-2012)

The first season of the show began production in June 2011. Over 12,000 children from around the nation auditioned for the series. The show premiered on 30 November 2011 and finished airing on 5 February 2012. It was hosted by Maria Mpekatorou. The judges were Yiannis Loukakos, Lefteris Lazarou and Dimitris Skarmoutsos. The winner was twelve-year-old Lilian Emvaloti.

Contestants

The top 12 contestants were chosen throughout the first week of challenges amongst the Top 40 and the Top 20. The full group of 12 were all revealed on Wednesday, 7 December 2011.

width=5%Placewidth=25%Contestantwidth=4%;Agewidth=10%Hometownwidth=25%Status
1stLilian Emvaloti12Nea SmyrniWinner 5 February
2ndMargarita Marmara12AthensRunner-up 5 February
3rdElsa Kletsa-Kalimpasieri13HeraklionFinalists 2 February
4thStefania Douvi11Athens
5thDimitris Karpetis12ChaniaEliminated 27 January
6thAgamemnon Kyriazis10Athens
7thGiorgos Athanasopoulos12ThessalonikiEliminated 13 January
8thSpyros Petropoulos11Piraeus
9thArxontia Vamvakari11PetroupoliEliminated 29 December
10thStelios Kaimakis13Piraeus
11thAlena Saracine11AthensEliminated 15 December
12thMatina Roumpou12Nea Ionia

Elimination table

PlaceContestantsEpisode
123456
ITOTETITOTETITOTETITOTETITOTETITFD
1Lilianbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=blueWTIMHPbgcolor=blueLTWCBPBPHPBPHPWCbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=whiteMPWCWCbgcolor=goldWINNER
2MargaritaWCIMbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=redWTIMbgcolor=whiteMPWCIMbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=whiteMPHPbgcolor=whiteMPWCIMHPbgcolor=silver2º PLACE
3ElsaBPbgcolor=redLTTWPWCIMHPBPSWPWCIMbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=whiteMPEL
4StefaniaHPbgcolor=redLTWCHPbgcolor=redWTIMbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=whiteMPTWPbgcolor=whiteMPWCIMbgcolor=whiteMPHPEL
5-6Dimitrisbgcolor=whiteMDbgcolor=redLTSWPBPbgcolor=blueLTSWPHPbgcolor=whiteMPWCHPBPEL
AgamemnonWCIMHPbgcolor=redWTIMWCINDCEL
7-8GiorgisHPbgcolor=blueWTIMBPbgcolor=redWTIMbgcolor=whiteMPHPEL
Spyrosbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=blueWTIMbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=redWTIMBPHPEL
9-10Arxontiabgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=blueWTIMbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=blueLTEL
Steliosbgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=blueWTIMBPbgcolor=blueLTEL
11-12AlenaBPbgcolor=redLTEL
Matinabgcolor=whiteMPbgcolor=redLTEL

The contestant is winner

The contestant is finalist

Winner of challenge

High performance

Medium performance

Bad performance

Immunity

(WT) Red is winner team (LT) Red is loser team

(WT) Blue is winner team (LT) Blue is loser team

Third worst performance

Second worst performance

Eliminated

Don't compete in the challenge

Don't compete

Season 2 (2018)

The second season premiered on 13 September 2018 and finished airing on 24 December 2018 on Star Channel. Over 1,500 children from around the nation auditioned for the second series.[1] [2] The judges were Eleni Psyhouli, Manolis Papoutsakis and Magky Tabakaki. The winner was twelve-year-old Konstantinos Christopoulos.

Contestants

The group of 22 children (11 boys and 11 girls) was revealed in the weekend of Thursday-Friday 20–21 September 2018. The selection was made from 44 children who went through auditions (22 boys and 22 girls).[3]

width=5%Placewidth=25%Contestantwidth=4%;Agewidth=10%Hometownwidth=25%Status
1stKonstantinos Christopoulos12Agia VarvaraWinner 24 December
2ndPopi Anevlavi12ApeiranthosRunner-up 24 December
3rdKatia Ritzaki9IrakleioThird Place 24 December
4thChristos Soures da Silva11CorfuEliminated 21 December
5thKonstantinos Spanidis12Athens
6thAngelina Stampopoulou11Thessaloniki
7thManolis Foutoulis13CharakiEliminated 14 December
8thKleopatra Koutantou8Athens
9thMiltiadis Siafakas13PiraeusEliminated 7 December
10thMelpomeni Stellaki12Athens
11thMichaela Pagouni10ArgyroupoliEliminated 15 November
12thTonia-Maria Zonia10LarnacaEliminated 15 November
Returned 2 November
Eliminated 1 November
13thMarios Ydreos11Agia ParaskeviEliminated 8 November
14thMarios Liontos12IoanninaEliminated 8 November
Returned 2 November
Eliminated 5 October
15thKiki Plakida13SkydraEliminated 1 November
16thThaleia Tsakalou12AthensEliminated 19 October
17thEirini Mavrigiannaki10Athens
18thKonstantinos Terpezidis8SerresEliminated 12 October
19thAriadni Perivolidi11Athens
20thKonstantinos Giovanidis11KallitheaEliminated 5 October
21stAngelos Christodoulou13XylokastroEliminated 28 September
22ndGiannis Kontaxakis9Kallithea

Notes

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Η επίσημη ανακοίνωση του Star για το MasterChef JUNIOR. GossipTV. 26 March 2018.
  2. Web site: 1.500 αιτήσεις συμμετοχής μέχρι στιγμής.... TV Nea. 19 April 2018.
  3. Web site: MasterChef Junior Greece. 16 November 2018 .