Beauty Queen Or Best (C4, 9pm)

LONG, long ago, small-town Britain thought nothing of crowning an annual beauty queen as part of its carnival procession, flower shows, beer tents and display rings. Look at us now. The very idea of judging one person as being more physically attractive than others is supposed to be as abhorrent to right-thinking society as playing conkers without safety goggles or asking children to sit on Santa’s knee.

However, people are still beautiful, even if the Miss World competition has been driven to the margins of TV coverage, and this three-part series follows some of the young entrants, hoping to make it through the regional pageants in Blackpool, Hull and Wolverhampton.

To these women a beauty queen is more than six-inch heels and smiles, but more of an escape to a new life, like the current champion Megan Young, from the Philippines, who faced Islamic protests about body exposure in spite of the famous swimsuit round being cancelled.

Daniel Fromm, RDF Television, says: "By focusing on three small town heats, we want to find out about the lure of being a beauty queen for a new generation of young women. And better understand what their lives are like, as they grow up in local economies still battling their way out of recession."

The cameras follow three entrants in the Miss Black Country heat, as they're put through their paces in interviews, bootcamps and catwalk. Diamond is 18-years-old and after being kicked out of school, she now worries what she'll do for a living. Meanwhile, Sammy Jo has been unemployed for the past two years and currently lives in a hostel with other jobless teenagers. Their competition is 19-year-old Natalie, who is funding her involvement in the competition, and that perfect pageant dress, with the profits of her fledgling mobile extension business.

Celebrity MasterChef (BBC1, 9pm)

THIS week’s contestants are dancer and choreographer Wayne Sleep, actors Leslie Ash and Alex Ferns, TV presenter Tania Bryer and former Made in Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh. The celebs are tasked with creating a pizza from the ingredients in the mystery box, before splitting into two groups for a lunchtime restaurant challenge.

And just when our famous chefs think they can breathe a sigh of relief, they're hauled back into the studio and told to come up with one last meal, before Gregg Wallace and John Torode deliberate over who hasn't done enough to make it through to tomorrow night's show.

Meet the Mormons (Channel 4, 10pm)

IN one of the most interesting documentary of the week, cameras follow a young British Mormon as he gives up two years of his life to convert the people of Leeds.

Josh Field is 20 years old and is one of around 200,000 Mormons in the UK who have agreed to surrender entirely to the Church. Up until now he's led a busy social life, but as soon as training begins, he is banned from seeing family and friends.

The Mormon regulations state that Josh must be in the presence of a fellow missionary at all times for the duration of his mission – the only time he's allowed to be apart from his is to use the bathroom. This one-off programme is bound to divide opinion and spark heated debates, as it gains a rare insight into a controlled world through the eyes of a young British Mormon who is committed to serving his Church.