Anna Haugh

Anna Haugh (, ; born 6 November 1980) is an Irish chef, restaurateur and TV personality. Since 2025, she has co-presented the BBC's MasterChef alongside Grace Dent.

Biography Born in Dublin, Haugh grew up in Tallaght. She attended Presentation Secondary School in Terenure and trained on a professional cookery course at the TU Dublin School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology in Dublin. She began her career in the city, with Derry Clarke of L'Ecrivain. Haugh then moved to London where she worked with Philip Howard, Shane Osborn and Gordon Ramsay. Haugh also worked with Gualtiero Marchesi in Paris.

In May 2019, she founded the Myrtle Restaurant in Chelsea, London, named after Myrtle Allen, Irish Michelin star-winning head chef and co-founder of Ballymaloe House.

Media career Haugh's first documented role in television was in BBC's The Stress Test (2004) while working at Pied à Terre with Shane Osborn. She appeared as a guest judge on Gordon Ramsay's U.S. show Hell's Kitchen

In March 2023, Anna was co-host of Grilled, a podcast by The Staff Canteen, where she interviewed a number of hospitality personalities including presenter Leyla Kazim and Saturday Kitchen's Matt Tebbutt.

In 2024, Haugh opened a wine bar called The Little Sister at the chef's Myrtle restaurant in London.

In early 2025, Haugh presented a fifteen-part cookery series called Anna Haugh's Big Irish Food Tour, which aired on BBC One Northern Ireland.

In September 2025, the BBC announced that Haugh and Grace Dent would be the co-presenters and judges on Masterchef from the 22nd series, taking over from Gregg Wallace and John Torode.

Awards In 2019, Haugh won Best International Chef award at the Food & Wine Ireland awards.

Myrtle Restaurant, located on Chelsea's Langton Street in London, was awarded 3 AA Rosettes in 2021.

Books Cooking with Anna (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)

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