Who’s Adam Pearson? Meet Movie star MasterChef 2022 contestant

A brand new sequence of Movie star MasterChef is effectively underway, with one other cohort of 20 well-known faces vying to impress judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace.

Amongst them is Adam Pearson, the presenter and campaigner who has beforehand fronted documentaries about incapacity discrimination, in addition to starring alongside Scarlett Johansson on the large display screen.

Right here’s what it is advisable know in regards to the TV star and incapacity rights activist as he joins the Celebrity MasterChef 2022 line-up.

Who’s Adam Pearson?

Age: 37

Job: TV presenter, actor and incapacity rights campaigner

Instagram: @adam_pearson_tv

Adam Pearson is an actor, presenter and campaigner who was recognized with neurofibromatosis kind one on the age of 5. The genetic situation causes non-cancerous tumours to develop on nerve tissue anyplace on the physique, and is estimated to have an effect on round one in 3,000 individuals.

His first appearing function got here in 2013 when he was forged reverse Scarlett Johansson within the sci-fi movie Underneath the Pores and skin, directed by Jonathan Glazer. He noticed the function as a chance to confront the stigma round disfigurement, telling the Observer: “If I can attempt to be as regular as attainable and present there’s nothing to concern – both on movie or everyday, going not far away to go looking for milk – then the extra individuals see it in wider society, the much less stigma there’s.”

Pearson has labored behind the scenes in tv, as a researcher on reveals like The Undateables and Magnificence and the Beast: The Ugly Face of Prejudice for Channel 4, showing within the latter as a presenter.

He went on to presenter BBC Three documentaries Adam Pearson: Freak Present and The Ugly Face of Incapacity Hate Crime, and in addition appeared alongside his similar twin brother Neil in a Horizon episode titled My Superb Twin. Neil has neurofibromatosis too, but it surely has impacted him in numerous methods: he suffers from epilepsy and reminiscence loss, however the situation has not affected his look.

Pearson has additionally featured as a reporter and presenter in a number of seasons of Channel 4’s Methods of the Restaurant Commerce and is an envoy for Altering Faces, the charity which seeks to finish discrimination in opposition to individuals with seen variations.

He was not too long ago forged within the movie A Totally different Man, a psychological thriller backed by acclaimed impartial studio A24, and can seem alongside Marvel’s Sebastian Stan and The Worst Individual within the World’s breakout star Renate Reinsve

Asserting information of his look on Movie star MasterChef in an Instagram publish, Pearson joked that he’ll both “win the entire thing, or set the disabled neighborhood again just a few years” however promised that “both manner I’m going to have enjoyable”.

When does Movie star MasterChef 2022 begin?

The newest season of Movie star MasterChef is kicked off on Wednesday tenth August, airing on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

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