Gordon's Christmas Cookalong LIVE

This Christmas, there's no need to panic if you've left your festive food shop to the last minute or the idea of cooking for the whole family fills you with dread. Help is at hand as Gordon Ramsay serves up an action-packed and irresistibly entertaining guide to cooking a fool-proof Christmas dinner - live on Christmas Day!

Viewers can cook alongside Gordon to create the perfect three-course festive feast: turkey with herb butter, served with chestnut, pistachio, sage, sausage and apricot stuffing; apple and sherry gravy; spiced and honey-glazed carrots and parsnips; Brussels sprouts with bacon and chilli; and the perfect goose fat roast potatoes. Plus, Gordon will serve up a starter of smoked salmon parcels with a fennel and apple salad, and a show-stopping trifle for pudding.

Some special lunch guests – including the one and only David Hasselhoff, as well as Dynamo, Russell Grant, Jermain Defoe and Max Laird – pop in to share Gordon's feast, and there's also an appearance by Arg and Lydia from The Only Way Is Essex, and Max Beesley and family. Woven into the live cooking action will be a series of fantastic festive TV classics fronted by some of Channel 4's favourite food faces, plus a smattering of unforgettable celebrity chef bloopers from the archives.

So whether viewers are looking for a little fun and nostalgia, or are planning to get stuck in to cook Christmas dinner with Gordon's careful guidance, Gordon's Christmas Cookalong LIVE promises to be the perfect festive treat.

The full list of shopping ingredients will be available from www.channel4.com/food