Junior MasterChef Greece

Junior MasterChef Greece
Junior MasterChef Greece title card
Genre	Cooking
Directed by	Panos Georgiou
Presented by	Maria Mpekatorou
Judges	Lefteris Lazarou Yiannis Loukakos Dimitris Skarmoutsos
Country of origin	Greece
Original language(s)	Greek
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	20
Production
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company(s)	Studio ATA
Release
Original network	Mega Channel
Picture format	576i (PAL)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	27 November 2011 – 5 February 2012
External links
Website

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. 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 27 November 2011 and finished airing 5 February 2012. It was hosted by Maria Mpekatorou. The judges was 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: