Grace Dent First Husband, Partner, Net Worth, Health

Grace Dent Biography – Grace Dent Wiki

Grace Dent is a columnist, broadcaster, author and podcaster. She has been a regular guest on MasterChef for over a decade, and was a contestant on MasterChef: Battle Of The Critics 2023. She was also a contestant on I’m a Celebrity in 2023.

Grace is an award-winning restaurant critic with a career in journalism spanning the past 15 years, as well as regularly appearing in food-centred TV and radio shows over the past decade. She writes an award-winning restaurant review column for The Guardian, and has hosted nine seasons of celebrity food podcast Comfort Eating. She previously wrote about food for the Evening Standard.

Grace is a best-selling author of over 20 books – including her memoir, Hungry, Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody’s Looking and the ‘Diary Of’ series.

She has also fronted a range of programmes across TV and radio – from hosting on BBC Radio 2 on Christmas Day and throughout the Christmas period, to presenting BBC Radio 4 series The Untold and BBC Four’s What We Were Watching.

Grace Dent Age

Grace Dent was born on 3 October 1973 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England. She grew up in Carlisle, Cumbria.

Grace Dent Husband

Grace Dent is not married. She is engaged to Charles. She announced her engagement to her partner Charles in November 2021.

Grace Dent Partner

Award-winning restaurant critic Grace Dent is engaged to her partner Charles. Grace and Charles became engaged in November 2021 after two years together. Detailing how the they first met, Grace revealed how they first ‘flirted’ for a year and a half online whilst ‘we both wasted our time on other lesser beings’.

‘I was in Liverpool working and I was feeling really miserable. And I got this message from him that he would like to take me for coffee and that was it!’ Grace added that she was the one to take the lead when it came to their first date, telling Charles she would be in a bar at a certain time and he should come meet her if he was interested, which he did.

In 2022, Grace, who lives in London, revealed that she and Charles live in separate homes, explaining in her column for The Standard: ‘I live ostensibly on my own because my partner, Charlie, and I have separate homes, however the reality is he’s in my bloody house most of the time, making a mess, eating food from my fridge and being looked after.’

Grace Dent First Husband

Grace Dent was previously married to her first husband Harvey Dent from 2002 to 2011. During an appearance on Kate Thornton’s podcast, White Wine Question Time, Grace spoke about her nine year marriage, explaining that after the split: ‘I felt like from 2002 to 2011 I had missed that stage when everything had gone digital…. you realise nobody is doing dating like they used to.’

The restaurant critic has never spoken in depth about her first marriage but did admit that she still has her wedding dress, and rewears it. ‘I’ve still got the dress that I got married in. I’m not married to him anymore. But I’ve still got that dress,’ she told The Mirror.

‘We’d just had a very informal marriage, we got married in Vegas, and I’ve still got the dress. I love the dress – this is the problem! I’ve still got that dress and I can’t quite give it away.’

‘It’s a turquoise patterned T-dress, and it’s in the exact colour that I love. It’s nipped at the waist and it’s flattering. […] And you can put it on and look a million dollars.’

‘And I do sometimes wander if my ex husband sometimes, watching TV, casually one night eating Pop Tarts, and he looks and he goes: “Is that the dress she wore? I’m sure I know that dress”.’

Grace Dent Children

Grace Dent does not have children. She has been very open about not wanting to have children. She wrote in the Guardian: “I do like children. Just not enough. This still feels like a radical thing for a woman to say. And children do like me, too. I have a big capacity for silliness, plus I resemble a sort of claymation witch, which they find intriguing. But I didn’t ever truly want one.”

Grace Dent Family

Grace Dent is the daughter of a van driver and a cleaner. She lost her father George in 2022 following a hard fought battle with Dementia and her mum in February 2021 after losing her fight with cancer. She has two siblings, including a younger brother David.

Grace Dent Net Worth

MasterChef’s Grace Dent has an estimated net worth of £3 million.

Grace Dent Health

Grace Dent was forced to withdraw from I’m a Celebrity in 2023 on medical grounds. She has never spoken publicly about her health issues.

MasterChef

On 18 December 2024, Grace Dent was announced as the new host of Celebrity MasterChef 2025 alongside John Torode on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. She will replace Gregg Wallace who stepped away from presenting MasterChef following a BBC News investigation which heard allegations of inappropriate sexual comments by 13 people who worked with him.

As she prepares to judge the upcoming 20th series of Celebrity MasterChef with John, Grace said: “I’ve been watching MasterChef since I was a girl sitting with my dad on the sofa. My whole family watches it.

“It’s all about uncovering and championing talent and to have ended up in this position, is more than a dream to me. I’m so excited that I can’t eat, which is severely detrimental to a restaurant critic. I feel very lucky to be stepping in for the next Celebrity MasterChef. I can’t wait to meet the fresh celebrity faces for 2025.”

John Torode, who has presented MasterChef since 2005, said: “I have loved working with Grace on MasterChef over the years. She has been an excellent guest, an inspiring critic and also set some incredible challenges. Expertise is what MasterChef is all about, from the contestants to our wonderful production team, to us as judges. The love of food, the love of MasterChef, and that unquestionable expertise, makes Grace the perfect person to step in alongside me as judge for the forthcoming Celebrity MasterChef series.”

I’m A Celebrity

Grace Dent was a contestant on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2023. She left the Australian jungle after just a week, on medical grounds. She entered the Australian jungle alongside fellow campmates Nigel Farage, Jamie Lynn Spears and Marvin Humes.

ITV said in a statement: “Unfortunately Grace Dent has left the show on medical grounds. She has been a great campmate and will be missed by her fellow celebrities and viewers alike.”

Dent was seen on camera on a Sunday evening episode saying: “I just want to go home.” The 50-year-old had been picked to do the latest Bushtucker trial, titled Down The Tubes, with fellow campmate Josie Gibson. Dent had said, before facing the previous Touchdown of Terror trial, that she was struggling in the jungle.

She was seen telling ITV presenter Gibson: “I’ve had enough. I’ve completely had enough. I just want to go home.” Dent added in the Bush Telegraph later: “I haven’t got a lot left in me at the moment. I’m just keeping on a face for everybody.”