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Claire Syrenne Biography – Claire Syrenne Wiki
Claire Syrenne is a cook, writer, and a contestant on MasterChef UK 2025. She has always loved food from a really young age. She said: “My dad grew lots of fruits and vegetables and I remember harvesting them from the age of six.”
Claire got into cooking at about 12. She told the BBC: “I remember being interested in how dinner was made when I was eight and then asking if I could help to measure and eventually start making whole meals when I was about 12.”
The biggest influences on her style of cooking are “home-grown vegetables.” She added: “I’m also influenced by dishes from my travels around the world and the strong culinary traditions of my husband’s Danish family. I’ve inherited a love for Scandinavian flavours and techniques, many of which have found their way into our own family’s food traditions.”
“I’m a Yorkshire girl at heart so I believe strongly in the benefits of gravy and custard, and a weekly infusion of at least one portion keeps me grounded!”
Claire Syrenne Age
Masterchef UK contestant Claire Syrenne was born in 1978 in Doncaster and lived in Yorkshire as a child.
Claire Syrenne Family
Claire lives in Newark-on-Trent with her husband Paul and their two children Evelynne and Henry. She met her husband in Canada, where she lived for 12 years.
Claire Syrenne Masterchef UK
Chef Claire Syrenne is a contestant on series 21 of MasterChef UK on BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Claire revealed that it was her husband who pushed her to apply for MasterChef so that “I could celebrate how much cooking has meant to me in the last nine years during a tricky time in my life.”
She said in another interview: “He suggested I apply for MasterChef as a way of celebrating how far I had come and how cooking helped me find my way. Thank goodness he did because my MasterChef adventure restored a huge part of my confidence and gave me a chance to celebrate my strength.”
Claire will be competing in the BBC’s MasterChef semi-finals alongside Harry Maguire, Hazel Coates, Henry Phillips, Munopa Nhete, Olivia Balzano, Sam Kaeokon and Sophie Sugrue.
Claire Syrenne’s Instagram handle is @clairesyrenne.
