Three stars have made it through to this year's Celebrity MasterChef final, with one narrowly missing out on a place in the top three.
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The penultimate episode of the series saw the four remaining contestants, Ulrika Jonsson, Angellica Bell, Dev Griffin and Rebecca Adlington, take part in two challenges, with Olympic champion Adlington failing to make it through to Friday's finale.
The first challenge of Wednesday night's show saw the four contestants tackle judge John Torode's tricky palate test, in which they had to identify ingredients in three popular Asian starters before recreating them.
The second challenge involved each of them presenting two dishes to Torode and his fellow judge Gregg Wallace, and three critics Grace Dent, William Sitwell and Tom Parker Bowles.
Ahead of the second challenge, Adlington revealed her fear in missing out on a place in the top three.
"No-one wants to finish fourth - fourth is the worst position ever, we hate coming fourth in sport." she said.
Adlington served up a butter chicken dish and churros to the judging panel, but her chicken curry was deemed to be lacking in "excessive decadence" by Parker Bowles, and Dent agreed, while Sitwell complained about her overcooked roti bread.
Adlington became unstuck in the kitchen with her pistachio-covered churros and spiced white chocolate sauce, as she struggled to cook the doughnuts.
The critics were not impressed with the dessert, which Dent described as looking like "an alien life form".
Wallace said: "She's a fighter... I love the sugar in the nuts and the spiced white chocolate sauce. The churros are not cooked and are not particularly attractive."
Following the challenge, Adlington said: "I'm so embarrassed by that pudding. I've got so far in this competition to have that happen... that dessert was not meant to be."
Jonsson, Bell and Griffin fared better in the challenge, with Torode and Wallace concluding that it was the retired sports star's time to leave the competition.
Adlington said: "I know I could have done so much better, and that's what I'm annoyed about.
"At the same time, I've loved this whole journey, I've met the best people. That's what I'm more upset about, that I'm not going to see those guys - they're ace."
TV presenter Bell wowed the critics and the judges with her duck breast dish and a chocolate mousse cake, as did Jonsson with her Swedish meatballs and her take on a frangipane tart.
Radio DJ Griffin served up a dish of seabass and mushrooms, and "wobbly" chocolate ganache tarts, both strong enough to keep him in the competition.
Bell, Jonsson and Griffin will face the Celebrity MasterChef final on Friday, and will have to recreate Michelin-starred dishes for Michelin-starred chefs, before creating their final three dishes for Torode and Wallace.
Celebrity MasterChef is on Friday at 8.30pm on BBC One.
