A first year reading English at Wadham has narrowly missed out on becoming Britain's latest and youngest ever "BBC MasterChef".Emily Ludolf, 19, from Lyne in Surrey was in the final of the television competition against James Nathan, 34, a former lawyer who lives in Spain.After six weeks of heats and semi-finals, the 132 contestants had been whittled down to just three.Throughout the culinary battle-off she has cooked for troops in Belize, for a wedding reception at Blenheim Palace and for some of Europe's top chefs.Ludolf told BBC News that her decision to enter the contest was a sporadic one."I was studying for my A-levels and I was watching it with my sister and she dared me to do it," she said. "I thought, yes, let's go for it and see what happens."Also in the final alongside Ludolf and Nathan was 32-year-old Jonny Stevenson, an ex-banker and a single father from Northern Ireland.