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MasterChef adds Chopped’s Aaron Sanchez as its third judge

MasterChef adds Chopped’s Aaron Sanchez as its third judge
New MasterChef season 8 judge Aaron Sanchez. (Photo by Fox)
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MasterChef has hired a third judge after two seasons of having only two judges, and that person is Chopped judge and James Beard Award winner Aarón Sánchez. He’ll join the show for season eight, which airs this summer.

There have only been two judges on MasterChef season seven and MasterChef Junior season five—Gordon Ramsay and Christina Tosi—after Graham Elliot left. Sánchez guested on season seven and will also appear on MasterChef Junior this season, Fox said.

Besides appearing on the Food Network show, Sánchez just published a new cookbook, and last fall, created, at the John Besh Foundation, the Aarón Sánchez Scholarship Fund, which exists to “[empower] aspiring chefs from the Latin community to follow their dreams and attend the best culinary school in the United States; The International Culinary Center.”

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