Junior MasterChef Greece is a Greek competitive cooking game show. It is an adaptation of the Australian show Junior MasterChef Australia. It is a spin-off of MasterChef Greece, itself an adaptation of the British show MasterChef, and features contestants aged 8 to 12 in season 1 and in season 2 features contestants aged 8 to 13. The show began airing on 30 November 2011 on Mega Channel. On 13 September 2018 began airing the second season on Star Channel.
Hosts and judges + Timeline of hosts and judges Starring Seasons12 Dimitris Skarmoutsos Lefteris Lazarou Yiannis Loukakos Maria Mpekatorou Eleni Psyhouli Manolis Papoutsakis Magky Tabakaki
Series overview Season Number of contestants Number of episodes Originally aired Classification of first trinity First aired Last aired Network Winner Runner-up Third place 1 12 20 30 November 2011 5 February 2012 Mega Channel Lilian Emvaloti Margarita Marmara Elsa Kletsa-Kalimpasieri 2 22 26 13 September 2018 24 December 2018 Star Channel Konstantinos Christopoulos Popi Anevlavi Katia Ritzaki
Series synopsis
Season 1 (2011-2012) The first season of the show began production in June 2011. Over 12,000 children from around the nation auditioned for the series. The show premiered on 30 November 2011 and finished airing on 5 February 2012. It was hosted by Maria Mpekatorou. The judges were Yiannis Loukakos, Lefteris Lazarou and Dimitris Skarmoutsos. The winner was twelve-year-old Lilian Emvaloti.
Contestants The top 12 contestants were chosen throughout the first week of challenges amongst the Top 40 and the Top 20. The full group of 12 were all revealed on Wednesday, 7 December 2011.
PlaceContestantAgeHometownStatus 1st Lilian Emvaloti 12 Nea SmyrniWinner 5 February 2nd Margarita Marmara 12 Athens Runner-up 5 February 3rd Elsa Kletsa-Kalimpasieri 13 HeraklionFinalists 2 February 4th Stefania Douvi 11 Athens 5th Dimitris Karpetis 12 ChaniaEliminated 27 January 6th Agamemnon Kyriazis 10 Athens 7th Giorgos Athanasopoulos 12 ThessalonikiEliminated 13 January 8th Spyros Petropoulos 11 Piraeus 9th Arxontia Vamvakari 11 PetroupoliEliminated 29 December 10th Stelios Kaimakis 13 Piraeus 11th Alena Saracine 11 AthensEliminated 15 December 12th Matina Roumpou 12 Nea Ionia
Elimination table PlaceContestantsEpisode123456ITOTETITOTETITOTETITOTETITOTETITFD 1LilianMPWTIMHPLTWCBPBPHPBPHPWCMPMPWCWCWINNER 2MargaritaWCIMMPWTIMMPWCIMMPMPHPMPWCIMHP2º PLACE 3ElsaBPLTTWPWCIMHPBPSWPWCIMMPMPEL 4StefaniaHPLTWCHPWTIMMPMPTWPMPWCIMMPHPEL5-6DimitrisMDLTSWPBPLTSWPHPMPWCHPBPELAgamemnonWCIMHPWTIMWCINDCEL7-8GiorgisHPWTIMBPWTIMMPHPELSpyrosMPWTIMMPWTIMBPHPEL9-10ArxontiaMPWTIMMPLTELSteliosMPWTIMBPLTEL11-12AlenaBPLTELMatinaMPLTEL
The contestant is winner The contestant is finalist Winner of challenge High performance Medium performance Bad performance Immunity (WT) Red is winner team (LT) Red is loser team (WT) Blue is winner team (LT) Blue is loser team Third worst performance Second worst performance Eliminated Don't compete in the challenge Don't compete
Season 2 (2018) The second season premiered on 13 September 2018 and finished airing on 24 December 2018 on Star Channel. Over 1,500 children from around the nation auditioned for the second series. The judges were Eleni Psyhouli, Manolis Papoutsakis and Magky Tabakaki. The winner was twelve-year-old Konstantinos Christopoulos.
Contestants The group of 22 children (11 boys and 11 girls) was revealed in the weekend of Thursday-Friday 20–21 September 2018. The selection was made from 44 children who went through auditions (22 boys and 22 girls).
PlaceContestantAgeHometownStatus 1st Konstantinos Christopoulos 12 Agia Varvara, AthensWinner 24 December 2nd Popi Anevlavi 12 Apeiranthos, Naxos Runner-up 24 December 3rd Katia Ritzaki 9 Irakleio, AthensThird Place 24 December 4th Christos Soures da Silva 11 CorfuEliminated 21 December 5th Konstantinos Spanidis 12 Athens 6th Angelina Stampopoulou 11 Thessaloniki 7th Manolis Foutoulis 13 Charaki, RhodesEliminated 14 December 8th Kleopatra Koutantou 8 Athens 9th Miltiadis Siafakas 13 PiraeusEliminated 7 December 10th Melpomeni Stellaki 12 Athens 11th Michaela Pagouni 10 Argyroupoli, AthensEliminated 15 November 12th Tonia-Maria Zonia 10 Larnaca, CyprusEliminated 15 NovemberReturned 2 NovemberEliminated 1 November 13th Marios Ydreos 11 Agia Paraskevi, AthensEliminated 8 November 14th Marios Liontos 12 IoanninaEliminated 8 NovemberReturned 2 NovemberEliminated 5 October 15th Kiki Plakida 13 Skydra, PellaEliminated 1 November 16th Thaleia Tsakalou 12 AthensEliminated 19 October 17th Eirini Mavrigiannaki 10 Athens 18th Konstantinos Terpezidis 8 SerresEliminated 12 October 19th Ariadni Perivolidi 11 Athens 20th Konstantinos Giovanidis 11 Kallithea, AthensEliminated 5 October 21st Angelos Christodoulou 13 Xylokastro, CorinthiaEliminated 28 September 22nd Giannis Kontaxakis 9 Kallithea, Athens
Notes Marios Liontos, eliminated on 5 October with Konstantinos Giovanidis, but he got a second chance on 2 November. Tonia-Maria Zonia, eliminated on 1 November with Kiki Plakida, but she got a second chance on 2 November.
References
External links Official website - Star Channel