Telefe has not fully locked in MasterChef Celebrity for Tuesday, October 6, because the broadcaster is waiting to see how long the Lionel Messi farewell transmission lasts. If that special run goes over, the cooking contest may lose its place in the middle of a week built around two cooking nights, a benefits gala and a last-chance gala.
That uncertainty is why the show is drawing attention now. The week of October 5 to 11 was planned as a compact run: Monday opens with the first cooking round, Wednesday brings the benefits and medals gala, Thursday is the last-chance gala, and Sunday closes with the elimination gala. Telefe has not listed start times for any of those broadcasts, which leaves Tuesday as the piece most likely to move if the farewell for Lionel Messi takes longer than expected.
The schedule matters because this is not a one-off special sitting outside the program. Telefe had mapped MasterChef Celebrity into its week between Monday and Thursday, and Tuesday was supposed to hold the second cooking round. But the broadcaster tied that night to a live transmission whose length cannot be pinned down in advance, so the episode is planned and uncertain at the same time. If Tuesday disappears, Friday, October 9 could be used as a replacement slot, although that move has not been confirmed and no start time has been set for it either.
That leaves one clear point of comparison from the prior week, when Telefe added a last-chance gala on Friday, October 2 and started it at 21:30. Even so, that time belonged only to that previous Friday, not to the coming week, and it does not settle what will happen on October 9. Wanda Nara is among the people caught in that uncertainty, since her question about La Joaqui left Luck Ra in a difficult position in the broader run of the show.
The next fixed date is Sunday, October 11, when the elimination gala is still on the books. Until Telefe decides whether Tuesday survives the Lionel Messi farewell, the week remains set around a Monday-to-Thursday plan that can still lose a night and gain one later.
