Monica Galetti is a Samoan-born New Zealand chef. She is a judge on the BBC competitive cooking programme MasterChef: The Professionals and was the chef proprietor of Mere in London before its closure
Galetti (left) assisting Michel Roux Jr. while Olly Smith narrates MasterChef Live 2009
Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby is a British BBC documentary television series, presented by the journalist Giles Coren and the chef Monica Galetti, and started in 2017.
Monica Galetti
…before its closure. She was senior sous-chef at Le Gavroche in London. In addition to her role on MasterChef: The Professionals, she has also presented Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby with Giles Coren and Rob Rinder since 2017. Galetti was born in Samoa and was initially raised by two aunts in Upolu as her mother had moved to Auckland…
The MGM Cotai hotel shopping mall lobby, featured in Series 3 of Amazing Hotels
A giraffe poking its head through the front door of Giraffe Manor
Nimb Hotel, overlooking Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark