Alex Webb on Park Lane review: the MasterChef is onto another winner

Based on this evidence – and a showstopper of a soufflé – even bigger things lie ahead

Alex Webb won MasterChef: The Professionals in 2020
Alex Webb won MasterChef: The Professionals in 2020
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Alex Webb came to national attention in 2020 after winning MasterChef: The Professionals, the spin-off of the long-running BBC series originally for ambitious amateurs.

Even in The Professionals, it’s the mix of competitors that make it an absorbing watch: from the mavericks that forever seem a pinch of something away from genius or disaster; to the classicists who quietly reach the summit by making it all look so easy.

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