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Matthew Charles Tebbutt is a British chef and television food presenter best known for presenting shows such as Channel 4’s Food Unwrapped and Drop Down Menu, the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and the Good Food channel’s Market Kitchen. He ran The Foxhunter in Nant-y-derry for many years with his wife, but gave it up to focus on his TV career.

Early life

Tebbutt was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and moved to South Wales when he was only six months old. He was educated at Rougemont School in Newport. He studied geography and anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.[citation needed]

Training

Tebbutt gained a diploma at Leith’s School of Food and Wine in London, before working for some of London’s most prestigious restaurants, including with Marco Pierre White at the Oak Room and Criterion and with Alastair Little whom he cites as the greatest influence on his cuisine.[citation needed]

Career

Television roles

Tebbutt often presented Saturday Kitchen on BBC One while the regular host, James Martin, was away.[1] He returned to the show as a guest presenter and now regular host of the show following Martin’s departure.[when?]

Tebbutt currently[when?] presents Food Unwrapped on Channel 4 with Kate Quilton and Jimmy Doherty. He also presented Market Kitchen with Tom Parker-Bowles and Matthew Fort and its successor, Market Kitchen: Big Adventure with Penny Smith. He has also appeared on the Great British Menu and Great British Food Revival. He also co-presented Channel 4‘s Drop Down Menu with Gizzi Erskine.

In December 2016, he co-presented Christmas Kitchen, a daytime series for BBC One. His co-host was Andi Oliver. He has also co-presented two series of Save Money: Good Food for ITV with Susanna Reid.[2]

In April 2020, it was announced that Tebbutt would co-host Daily Kitchen Live on BBC One with Jack Monroe. The show wais made by Cactus TV which also created Saturday Kitchen. The programme, made in response to issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, offered tips and guidance to families struggling with limited resources for a two-week period commencing 14 April 2020.[3]

In September 2025, it was revealed that Tebbutt would replace Gregg Wallace as a judge on the 18th series of MasterChef: The Professionals, following Wallace’s sacking after a report upheld several misconduct allegations against him.[4]

Restaurants

He owned and ran the Foxhunter restaurant in Nant-y-derry near Usk in South Wales[5] for 15 years. The restaurant has won a number of awards including the AA[6] It is now[when?] leased as a pub while Tebbutt concentrates on his TV career.

Books

Tebbutt published Cooks Country: Modern British Rural Cooking (ISBN 1845333713) in 2000, Weekend: Eating at Home[7] in 2021 and Matt Tebbutt’s Pub Food (ISBN 1837831246) in August 2024. He is also the author of Guilty Pleasures.

Personal life

Tebbutt is married with two children, and lives in Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire.[6][8]

In January 2022, Tebbutt had an emergency appendicectomy.[6]

References

  1. ^ BBC One Programmes – Saturday Kitchen. BBC (21 May 2011). Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  2. ^ “ITV rolls out new ‘Save Money’ brand, announcing new Susanna Reid prime time series” (Press release). ITV.
  3. ^ “BBC One daytime announces Daily Kitchen Live, to help viewers through lockdown” (Press release). BBC Media Centre. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  4. ^ Grierson, Jamie (6 September 2025). “Matt Tebbutt to replace Gregg Wallace on MasterChef: The Professionals”. The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
    – “Matt Tebbutt to replace Gregg Wallace on MasterChef: The Professionals”. BBC News. 6 September 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  5. ^ “Matthew Tebbutt”. The Foxhunter. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
  6. ^ a b c “Anna Haugh and Matt Tebbutt discuss if Matt is really a trained chef, their worst restaurant experience and how the team decide which chefs appear on Saturday Kitchen”. The Staff Canteen. 24 March 2023.
  7. ^ “Weekend: Eating at Home: From Long Lazy Lunches”. Book Curl. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
  8. ^ Alison James (13 January 2022). “The fast-food secret that tickles TV chef Matt’s tastebuds”. The Daily Express. p. 23.
    – “TV Chef’s studio and cookery school plans set for approval”. Wales Property News. August 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2023.