The twins of chefs Arnau París and Rais Esteve are born

BarcelonaChef Arnau París, one of the faces of the program Cuines from TV3, has announced via Instagram that he has become a father. A week ago, the twins he has with his partner, the also cook Rais Esteve, were born. The children are named Artur and Robert –the same initials as father and mother– and, as the chef explains on social media, they were born after 8 months of gestation. "Thank you for making me celebrate my first Father's Day, I celebrate your 40 little fingers that are always searching and sometimes find mine on the way," he wrote.

As they say, children arrive with a bun in the oven, because a few days ago it was announced that París will replace Marc Ribas next season on Joc de cartes, the successful restaurant competition on TV3. It began airing almost a decade ago, in 2017, and its audiences have never waned. It will be a very important change in presenter style. Arnau París rose to fame when he won the ninth edition of MasterChef, the cooking competition on La 1. He then received an offer to audition for Cuines, where he focuses on making simple recipes that require little time and few complications.

Arnau París and Rais Esteve met in 2021 precisely on MasterChef, when he was a contestant and she worked there as a culinary advisor. The relationship between the two, however, did not begin until two years after the competition, which París won. "He didn't pay attention to me for two years, even though I tried," he explained in a recent magazine with ARA. París published in 2025 A foc lent (Columna), where the chef from Cuines Pim-Pam explained his professional turn and how he has reconverted into a gastronomic communicator: "A professional faucet salesman, a skilled door-to-door salesman, used to traveling roads all over the country and dealing with all kinds of businessmen, decides to leave everything to enter a television competition that would open the doors to the world of cooking, his great and true passion," he wrote.