Poppy O'Toole

Michelin-trained internet sensation Poppy O’Toole created her social media profile, Poppy Cooks, after losing her kitchen job during the pandemic. Known for creating easy-to-follow recipe tutorials, Poppy currently has over 4M followers on TikTok. Following almost a decade in professional kitchens, Poppy launched her debut cookbook The Food You Need in 2021, which received praise from the likes of Nigella Lawson, Rukmini Iyer and the Daily Mail – who called her the “millennials answer to Delia Smith”. In January 2022, Poppy was announced as a judge on the new series of Young MasterChef. She was also a judge on E4’s Celebrity Cooking School, alongside Giorgio Locatelli.