Virgin Cooks - Anton

Britain's kitchens are a disaster zone - we appear clueless when it comes to cookery. Instead of sitting down to a freshly-cooked meal around the dining table Brits are now more likely to sit down to a takeaway in front of the TV. One man wants to change this. At just 26, Gordon Jones is head chef at one of the country's leading five star hotels, the Royal Crescent in Bath. Now he wants to get households cooking tasty, healthy and fresh meals, eating together again and reconnecting with each other. And he'll save them a fortune in the process. Each episode, he picks two virgin cooks from a household and places them in a seven-day head-to-head cookery competition which starts with him slashing their food budget. By the end of the week the person who has come on the furthest wins the ultimate prize - to cook a three-course menu, of their own design, for 20 to 30 friends and family. Putney, on the banks of the Thames is home to 20-year-old business studies student Anton Greig. Anton lives in a mansion block with his dad Paul, a classically trained actor and acting coach, his actress sister Gemma and her boyfriend Mario. Ever since the death of his Portuguese mother, Maria, a year ago the family's eating habits have fallen apart. Not anymore. Anton wants things back to how they were and he wants to cook just like his mother. If he manages it, he plans to celebrate his 21st birthday by cooking a lavish dinner party for 30 of his friends and family. It's Gordon's biggest personal challenge to date - to take this loveable, laid back student and, in a week, give him the tools to cook just like his mother. But will he succeed without the element of competition?