Wearing a Melbourne couture gown and linking arms with Sydney-based celebrity chef Manu Feildel, the UK’s most famous home-cooking queen Nigella Lawson is finally on the road to film the MKR reboot.

In the first trailer for what was once Australia’s top-rating cooking show when it premiered in 2010, the ‘domestic goddess’ says she’s travelled 17,000 kilometres to find our best home cooks.

She wants to share food, try everyone’s creations at “fabulous dinner parties” and have a lot of fun.

With smiling, happy contestants wearing colour-coded aprons from five states, the first look at Lawson and Feildel knocking on the doors of suburban homes around the country looks like the dinner parties are going to be, well, wholesome.

There are no scene-stealers like we’ve seen in previous years, where contestants eyeballed each other and dished nasty quips across the table, no arguments, tears or spilt milk that caused audiences to switch channels.

Above all else, a key industry insider told The New Daily, “the energy will be different”.

“Manu is a natural flirt who will find a more-than-willing partner in Nigella, and the road trip will give the show the opportunity to smash the predictable formula which viewers were bored by.

“The fact both judges are not Australian will either work against MKR – why are these two imports telling us what to cook and eat? –  or give it that European lustre some viewers think is aspirational.”

And from Manu’s perspective?

He feels, as MKR judges, they “make the perfect team with our years of experience in professional and home kitchens,…