Does Nigella hold recipe for George’s redemption?

George Calombaris and Nigella Lawson are being touted as potential hosts of a revived cooking TV show.

If anyone can bring you television redemption, it is surely the “domestic goddess”.

And that’s exactly the recipe Channel 7 have in mind, with Nigella Lawson partnering with George Calombaris as Seven’s frontrunners for My Kitchen Rules.

The inside word is the pair are being heavily courted by the network for the revived cooking series, announced during Seven’s Upfronts earlier this week.

Networks like to keep speculation rife with a series of hints in the lead-up to a show’s release. It keeps audiences salivating.

Nigella Lawson and George Calombaris could be joint hosts of the new series of My Kitchen Rules.

If signed to the dotted line, the reformatted reality cooking series is also likely to relocate from Sydney to Melbourne. This would be a coup for the state after losing locally produced reality shows The Masked Singer and DWTS due to strict Covid restrictions.

Lawson and Calombaris are being sold as a package. The two are great mates, with Lawson famously dancing into the night at Calombaris’s celebrity-studded nuptials to long-term partner Natalie Tricarico in Greece in 2018.

Former 10 boss turned Channel 7 honcho James Warburton had no trouble enticing Matt Preston and Gary Mehigan to their menu last year.

So, anything is possible after former MasterChef judge Calombaris returned to the small screen earlier this year on the Masked Singer as the “Duster” in a gold glitter ensemble that once seen cannot be unseen.

Calombaris, who was cancelled after an underpayment scandal hit headline after headline, has surely done his time.