Marco Pierre White to debut on US TV tonight

Marco Pierre White, our very own enfant terrible, is making his debut on US television tonight.

Following in the footsteps of erstwhile protégé and now arch rival Gordon Ramsay once more, MPW, who famously stated he would never take part in a reality TV show, is now hosting his very own reality TV show on NBC.

Called The Chopping Block, the programme is kind of a US version of the BBC's The Restaurant with Raymond Blanc.

To be more specific, it's a competition that sees two teams of four couples running neighbouring restaurants in New York. At the end, the winning pair gets $250,000 (roughly £180,000) to fund their own restaurant. 

In an interview with Time Magazine MPW chats about the show, what he's like as a judge and mentor to the competing couples and also about what he looks for in a restaurant and his favourite eateries in the Big Apple. 

"I met 10 couples, who turned up on the stage of Chopping Block with a dream. And that dream was to win a restaurant. There are a lot of people out there who've run very successful restaurants who don't know how to cook. There's more to a restaurant than a plate of food, my love. And when you give someone a restaurant as a prize, it's not just a prize, it's a responsibility."

Read the full interview here.