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JR Royol named Master Chef Pinoy Edition Grand Winner! JR Royol or Romulo Lamaton Royol Jr., 29-year-old Band Vocalist from Benguet bagged the title of being the first ever grand winner of Master Chef Pinoy Edition in the grand cook-off held at SM Skydome on Saturday, February 9. JR's "Bigorot" dish got an overall average score of 96.1% from judges Kris Aquino and Richard Gomez. In second place is 40-year-old businesswoman from Bulacan Carla Marcaida. Followed by Ivory Yat, a 26 year-old practicing Nurse from Quezon City and 4th Placer Myra Santos from Muntinlupa.

Watch MasterChef Pinoy Edition - 07 January 2013 Episode. MasterChef Pinoy Edition is a Philippine competitive cooking game show featuring Filipino contestants from ages 18 to 50 years old. It is an adaptation of the British show MasterChef. The said show will air on November 12, 2012. MasterChef is back and ready to test the skills and recipes of amateur cooks in the Philippines.This is not your ordinary cooking show, as 1 million Pesos will be waiting for the lucky home cook. Who will be the first Pinoy Masterchef? Video embed only from Dailymotion. Credit to ABS-CBN and the uploader. guypoliuty by dm_50ea36d68bfdc

Who are the MasterChef Pinoy Edition – Top 15 Contenders? After touching viewers’ hearts with their personal stories, the country’s best 40 skilled amateur cooks go through the last round of intense culinary battle this week in MasterChef Pinoy Edition in a bid to join the kusina-serye’s top 15 official cooks. Different types of Inspiration Challenges will require them to draw inspiration from their past or loved ones in preparing their dishes. Nine have already been declared official cooks last Monday (November 26) Tuesday (November 27), and Wednesday (November 28) namely Carla, an entrepreneur; Betty, a househelp; Sonny Boy, who is known for his darak cookies; Lito, a police officer; Reggie, a call center agent;Gian, a student; Ivory, a nurse; Maureen, a housewife; and Myra, an accounting associate. Who among the remaining 16 cooks will delight host Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo, Chef Ferns, Chef Lau, and Chef Jayps? What recipe will bring them closer to being the first ever...

ABS-CBN’s first kusina-serye "MasterChef Pinoy Edition" was off to a strong start after its pilot episode that featured host Judy Ann Santos-Agoncillo and the inspiring stories of amateur chef auditionees on Monday claimed an early lead in ratings. The local version of the hit culinary competition posted a national TV rating of 18.1%, according to latest data from Kantar Media, while its rival programs - GMA’s Knock Out (9.7%) and Cielo de Angelina (6.7%) and TV5’s Face to Face (5.3%) - trailed far behind. Aside from trending on Twitter in the Philippines, it also claimed the eighth spot inthe top 20 most watched programs in the country and even scored higher than all of GMA and TV5’s primetime series. "MasterChef Pinoy Edition" which also features chef-judges Fernando Aracama, Rolando Laudico and JP Anglo, airs Mondays to Fridays before "Be Careful with My Heart" on ABS-CBN’s Umaganda block.

Watch “MasterChef: Pinoy Edition Premieres on November 12! Starting on Monday (November 12), the country’s no.1 daytime teleserye “Be Careful With My Heart” will air on a later timeslot, 11:15am, to pave way for the arrival of its newest ally in ABS-CBN’s morning block - Judy Ann Santos‘ much-awaited daily cooking reality show “MasterChef: Pinoy Edition,” which will air daily at 10:30am. Meanwhile, based on the data from Kantar Media for the whole month of October, “Be Careful With My Heart” still remained as the no.1 daytime TV program nationwide. With its 23.3% average national TV rating, the love story of Maya (Jodi Sta. Maria) and Sir Chief (Richard Yap) even overthrown GMA’s primetime teleseryes that were not even part of the list of top 15 programs in October. Continue to spread the good vibes in the morning and fall in love with the new-age fairytale of Yaya Maya and her Sir Chief in the country’s no.1 daytime program, “Be Careful With My Heart,” weekdays, 11:1...