ITV REPORTEDLY COMMISSION NEW CELEBRITY COOKING SERIES

ITV have reportedly commissioned new celebrity cookery series 'Cooking With The Stars', to air this Summer.

A Source told The Sun: "ITV has left alone cookery programmes in primetime until this point. But they’ve seen the success Bake Off has had on Channel 4 and the BBC before that, and also of Mary Berry’s Best Home Cook on the Beeb and think there’s something they can put together...

"Cookery programmes are a staple of television planning but ITV want to give it a glitzy, shiny floor twist. Celebrity participants will be paired up with the best of the culinary world in pairs, like Strictly, and they will fight it out for the crown...

"They are always looking for new formats at ITV and they think this will help ease the burden that no XF or BGT has had on the channel. They’re really hopeful it’ll become a hit and become a staple in the schedule not only this year but in the future too."

More information will be revealed in due course.