Celebrity chef Simon Gault hopes the third edition of MasterChef will be "bigger and better" than the first.

With a new cookbook out, one half of Two Fat Ladies, Clarissa Dickson Wright, is happy.

Cheryl Cole was annoyed Simon Cowell didn't have the "guts" to tell her she had been sacked from the US X Factor.

Simon Cowell hopes to remain friends with Cheryl Cole.

Cheryl Cole wants to take a break from the showbiz world.

New Zealand's Next Top Model is going "plus-size" - meaning almost as big as a normal, healthy Kiwi woman.

Nadia Lim is about to face an even tougher test when she begins work in the white-hot intensity of a fine-dining restaurant.

A year on from her MasterChef final Kelly Young has her own TV cooking show and a master plan for the future. By Kerri Jackson.

After 12 episodes we're down to the best of the best - Jax and Nadia.

The finalists dished the dirt on eliminated contestants, but are full of praise for each other.

Nicole Scherzinger has been confirmed as the host of the US version of The X Factor.

Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has been announced as the newest judge on the Seven Network's series The X Factor.

Cheryl Cole has been confirmed as a judge on the US version of The X Factor.

Producers of MasterChef are facing a backlash from fans of ousted finalist Cameron Petley.

MP Paula Bennett is the first of the Beehive's power brokers to step out of their comfort zone - in her case, feeding the needy at a city mission - for the new series Make Your Politician Work. By Bevan Hurley.

A new local 'family fix' series needs some serious help itself, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Rihanna turned down a place on the judging panel of The X Factor.

Reality TV is as subtle as a fart in a lift. Particularly when the MasterChef contestants are forced to buy zucchinis from a certain supermarket.

The 90210 star is expecting her third child with her husband Dean McDermott and the couple are overjoyed with the news.

Sometimes you get the feeling that some contestants think they know better than the producers and the judges. And then those people aren't there any more.

Last year's MasterChef winner Brett McGregor's cookbook takes your tastebuds on a culinary journey.

Prepare to cringe as NZ episodes of America's Next Top Model finally make it to our screens.

Jo Knowsley investigates the truth behind this week's sensational story from Piha beach.

The former Two and a Half Men star has been accused of destroying a planned reality TV project about himself and his family by a television producer working with his estranged uncle, Joe Estevez.

Greg Dixon doesn't understand all the fuss about a cooking show, not that he'd call it a cooking show.

Where are they now? It's so often the public catch-cry following reality TV shows.