WEBVTT - REAL REALITY - MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA - POH LING YEOW 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.280 TV Reload the podcast last week. They're right. Hi guys, 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.760 welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.520 so much for clicking and downloading on today's episode with 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.680 Polling Yoo, our newest host of Master Chef Australia, which 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.520 is returning tonight on Network ten at seven point thirty. 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.480 Poe was on the very first season of Master Chef 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.759 Australia when it all began, where she came second to 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.840 Julie Goodwin and I don't think everyone has completely gotten 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.320 over that. Since then, Australia has fallen more and more 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.519 in love with her. She returned to the kitchen for 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.239 Back to Win, delighted us in the Jungle on I'm 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.600 a Celebrity last year, and even had a TV affair 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.760 with Channel Line's Snack Masters. This new judging panel, including Poe, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.480 will mentor this season's crop of contenders through exciting challenges 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.839 designed to test and develop while honing their skills at 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.240 every single turn. The competition, of course, will be as 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.400 fierce as ever, with twenty two Australian home cooks assembled 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.600 vying for the coveted title of Master Chef Australia winner 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.399 for twenty twenty four and the grand prize of two 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.000 hundred and fifty thousand dollars. However, this season we'll also 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.240 see a money Can't Buy prize offer with an opportunity 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.360 of a lifetime in store for our twenty twenty four winner. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.119 Poe will reveal if Julie Goodwin was jealous of her 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.080 being asked to judge the twenty twenty four season and 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.319 what their relationship has really been like over the years. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.080 We will get to hear what it was like walking 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.240 into the kitchen as a judge for the first time 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.080 and find out if being a judge has given her 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.120 an insight into how the critiques are actually televised. I 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.360 will also finally find out why she wasn't asked as 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.679 a judge when they rebooted the show a couple of 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.880 years ago, and if saying yes to this opportunity was 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.240 the reason for Snack Masters being canceled. We will talk 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.440 about all of the new judges, what the new contestants 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.240 are like, and I'm going to see if Poe will 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.080 actually answer the question of who's your favorite contestant. There's 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.520 so much to unpack with Poe, so sit back and 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.440 relax as we unpack the wonderful world of Master Chef Australia. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.360 Hi pop man, Hey, Hi, how are you. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:08.920 I'm so well, how about you. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.600 I'm excited because every year Master Chef is my winter warmer. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.079 You know, the weather gets colder in Melbourne and I 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.840 need the food, you know, I need to watch people 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:19.800 cooking it. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.560 Yep, you can just rug up and just eat all 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.720 the you know, stewy comfort foods. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.840 Absolutely well, welcome back to the Master Chef Kitchen. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.400 Thank you so much. Yeah, like it's it's a very. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.080 I don't want to overstate it, but it is quite 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.800 a profound full circle moment. And I've said this a lot, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.280 but yeah, it's every day that I've been in the 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.359 kitchen for the past five months. I'm just changing myself 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:52.919 for sure. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.000 Can you describe, because this is what I wanted to 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.919 know as soon as I heard that you were coming 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.480 on as a host as a judge, I just wanted 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.120 to be fly on the wall as you walked into 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.840 the Master Chef kitchen. Can you kind of take me 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.639 through what that felt like on that very first day. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.560 Yeah, Yeah, I was really nervous and it felt because 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.880 I've been top of Room before as a guest, but 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:19.760 like being a being one of the judges is a 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:24.400 very different thing. And I was very emotional on the day. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.680 I felt because when you walk into that kitchen, the 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.800 air is thick with the hopes and dreams of the contestant, 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.640 and there is something very magical and palpable about that. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.720 And to feel that, and to not just feel. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.800 That, but know that that's in my hand is so 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:46.080 much to think about. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.120 Do you do you think in any way that Julie 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.240 Goodwin is a little bit jealous? Do reckon? She's sitting 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.600 at home and thinking, oh my god. I mean, I 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.800 know that she would be very supportive and she would 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.080 love you in this job, but is there a small 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.080 tier coming down from her cheek. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.920 I can almost stay with absolute sority that she is 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.000 not at all jealous. 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.080 And Julie has always walked to the beat of her 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:09.560 own drum. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.440 She knows exactly what she knew, exactly what she wanted 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.040 out of the experience. And I feel like she's on 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:20.000 such a different trajectory. She's just written autobiography and has 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.720 just launched that. I feel like she's on such a 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.320 different sort of wavelength at the moment she came back 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.680 for bands and favorites? 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.080 Is that what you have to win? I think it 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.400 is what it was called. Or was that the one 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:31.080 you came back from? 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.520 No, that was I was on, Yeah, you were back 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.520 to win so favorites, right, So she's. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.400 Had a little I think she's had a little stint 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.840 of it, but like she's always been nothing but incredibly 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.719 encouraging and supportive of me, and you know me the 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.279 same of HER's. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.840 Why you guys have been so successful though, I mean 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.960 you're both so lovely, you know, nothing but a really 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.960 good friendship behind the fact that you started off this 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.599 whole Mastershiff experience for Australia together. You know. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.480 Yeah, I feel like in many ways the compedation as 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.120 I watched it play out, it's something that really dawned 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.640 on me that I don't think you really think about 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.960 it when you're in the competition, is that you're mainly 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:13.280 in competition with yourself, because it's so about the decisions 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:18.960 you make on any given day when some crazy challenge 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.440 is thrown at you. And I think Julie and I 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.880 really understood that we were always such different cooks that 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.080 we never felt like we threatened each other. It was 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.880 always just going to be, well, this is it. Whatever 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.680 comes out and the wash comes out in the wash, 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.200 you know what I mean? Like we were both so 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.800 happy for whoever to win. And I really really mean that, 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.159 even though so many people were like, oh, you know, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.880 they'll they'll always mentioned that, you know, they think that 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.560 I got robbed or whatever, but you know I tooked. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:47.640 A terrible chicken dish. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:52.440 It wasn't I always think of Sashi and every seat, 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.560 you know, like last year, I just kept thinking about Sashi. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.960 He's one of my favorite chefs that's ever been on 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.040 the show. And the fact and he was eliminated, it's 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:00.800 just proof that you can be at the top of 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.720 your game. They have one bad day and it's all over. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:04.919 Yeah. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.159 Absolutely, And it was really interesting because both sevens the 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.719 producers kept on saying to me, why do you keep 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.960 making life so difficult for yourself. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:14.960 We're only going to judge you by the brief that 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.560 we've given you. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.839 But I would just do crazy stuff like oh, you know, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.480 you have to make won dessert in thirty minutes, and 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:22.960 I'd be like, I'm going to make you Like why 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:23.760 would you do that? 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:24.760 It's so idiotic. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.360 I just constantly did things like that, and I think 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.560 it's just that thrill of being able to pull something 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.520 out of the hat. It becomes a very addictive sort 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:38.719 of behavior, and when you keep succeeding, you only learn 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:44.760 when it's like two eight, which makes good television, Which 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.560 makes good television. But to a certain extent, I was 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.400 definitely aware of that that I wanted to make good 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.719 television as well, not at the expense of pretending in 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:58.360 any way, but like I definitely made some poor choices 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.960 that landed me in not winning type. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:03.839 I'm here for it. You know, this might be a 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.960 bit strange, and I'm a big fan of yours. I've 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.560 followed you the whole way through, whether you or on. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.840 I'm a celebrity snack Masters. I go wherever Poe goes, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:11.600 is my saying. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.720 So I'm thank you. I really appreciate that this might. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.480 Be a little bit strange, but I feel like this 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.560 was a long time coming for you, and I've always 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.040 wanted to ask you. When they did the reboot where 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.440 we lost those three other blokes and then we got 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.000 the new people come in, I wondered whether or not 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.920 they'd even had a conversation with you at that point, 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.880 because I felt like you were an obvious choice to 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.320 come in at that point to be one of the 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:34.960 judges slash. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.200 I didn't. I didn't have a conversation with anyone. No, 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.640 I wasn't in the mix at all. I don't think. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.840 I'm not sure whether I was in the mix. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:49.680 When they had the boardroom meeting, but I definitely wasn't 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:50.640 contacted about it. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.160 But there were a lot of rumors flying around that 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:53.840 I was. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.360 Did you have it in the back of your mind 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.960 that at some point this would happen? Because this is 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.000 my theory. Come with me on my conspiracy theory. I 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.760 hate conspiracy theorists. I felt like they knew there was 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.600 going to be a back to win season, and they 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.640 knew they were going to do a fans versus favorites, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.360 and they felt like, oh, well, we've got those lined 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.400 up and we're gonna we're gonna want Poe to do 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.880 one of those first. So maybe they wanted you to 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.840 come back, as you know, in the kitchen as a 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.440 competitor again before they made you a host slash judge. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.640 No, I don't think so, because no, no, no, not 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:30.200 at all, Because it was Jock Umel and Andy and 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:31.360 they wanted me. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.760 Oh no, because that was the season that I was in. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.360 When I'm in they got you anyway. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.600 Yeah, No, I don't think so. I don't think so. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.120 I think that, and you know what, I don't think 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.199 I would have been ready. Then. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.920 I really feel like things happened for a reason. And 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.080 I always talk about this, whether it's a device that 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.200 I've created in my head to help me cope with 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.160 all the chaos that ensy use in my life. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.000 But I really feel. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.000 Like I had to do a bit of copper room 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.560 work first, which was Masters. Like my experience doing that 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:03.800 I think really helped me. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.840 Understand on that show. 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.200 By the way, I just have to jump on and 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.640 tell you I loved that show so much. And I mean, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.400 does the does the fact that we didn't get a 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.439 third season of Snack Masters? Was that the cause of 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.120 Master Chef? Did you know that you were not going 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:20.120 back that way? 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.160 No? This is so strange because that that finished up 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:29.839 and had I uh, Okay, I can't talk about what 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.000 show it was, but there was another show that wanted 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.160 me to. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.200 To uh that want to ask me whether I was 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.600 interested in a role on the show, and the order 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.480 was that I couldn't say yes to this other show 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.000 because I was contracted to Snack Masters, and had I 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.920 not and had I not been on Snack Masters, I 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.720 would have done this other show, and that would have 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.640 made me completely not able to do Master Chef. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.040 So I think it's quite interesting how it's rolled out. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.160 I think it's brilliant the way that it's rolled out. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.600 This is the what do they call it, the order 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.920 of device. There's some sort of hippie bullshit that they. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.800 Say, like a yeah, divine yeah. The other thing is like, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.280 I will I always bring this up. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:10.640 You know. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.520 I have to respect the fact that I am only 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.600 here because of this very tragic event of Jop passing away. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.959 It was just such a such a sort of unusual 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.440 series of events that led me here. But I think 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.040 in that season before Back to Win, I did wonder 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.199 if I was gonna get a call I'm not gonna lie, 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.600 But I also was gonna say no. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.040 Why. I just didn't feel confident doing it at all. 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:41.400 It was just at this. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.720 Wrong point in my life and I just did not 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:45.880 have the confidence. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:47.600 It was so resolute. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.080 I know it sounds like such a weird thing to say. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:54.480 But I just knew that it wasn't the right time. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.520 I just it just felt really wrong. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.680 This sounds like some small town girl from Adelaide kind 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.560 of shit, like you know, you weren't mentally or confident 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.440 enough to do it where you know, from the very 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.600 moment that you stepped on to snack Masters as a host. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.680 And sorry to keep bringing it up Network ten while 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.760 we talk about mester ship, but from the moment you 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.960 turned up on that, it was obvious to the viewer 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.840 that you have you have a real sort of a 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.000 list celebrity vibe about you. There's something, oh my goodness. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.000 Then you're really like, you're really I'm loving the I'm 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.120 loving the con for. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.560 Me every day, I'll pep you up, come on every day. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.079 Fiction and my my my ability. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.240 I yeah, no, no, I'm very real about well. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.320 I'm yeah. I feel like, you know, I'm one of 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.720 those people if I say, oh, I just don't know 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.920 if I can do it, I really mean it. It's 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.240 not that I'm down on myself. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.400 It's just like I need I feel like I need 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.680 to skill up on whatever it is because I never 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.360 want to, you know, do it or badly, so I 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.679 really take pride in everything that I do, and I 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.640 really feel like at the time, I just don't know 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.000 if I could have having said that Master Chef is 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.000 such a well oiled machine. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.920 That I if that was the case. 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.360 I'm sure they would have gotten me up to speed, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.000 you know, like they did now, Like I mean, I 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:18.400 felt so so sort of like underprepared, Like what prepares 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.400 you for this nothing? It's so it's such a huge role, 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.760 you know. I just feel so swaddled by everyone, like 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:31.600 the producers, by my co hosts, by the contestants. I 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.920 just feel so lucky, like it's been it's been a 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:35.959 real dream. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.720 Right, But you're darling of master Chef, like as in 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.560 your master Chef Royalty. So if they weren't looking after 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.480 you and helping you along the way, I'd be pretty surprised. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.840 The show is about it. It's a really great show 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.839 because it's one of my favorites. There's no conflict, there's something. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.280 They lift people up, do you know what I mean? 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.839 So I feel like having you in there, they're always 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.960 going to lift you up. They're always going to help you. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.600 No, absolutely, yeah and completely And you know, Andy said 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.520 something to me at the beginning he says, it not 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.360 absolutely not to take away from the fact that you've 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:12.560 been you know, obviously asked the performance role for a reason, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.280 but like Master Cheff is such a juggernaut that whoever's 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.760 in this role will will still shine, you know. And 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.600 and it actually gave me so much confidence to just 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:23.480 be myself. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.960 Yeah, I'm wondering if you were practicing your call and 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.640 the time calls, because Melissa Leong did such a great 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.040 time call, like that was one of my favorite things. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.680 Like she just would say, oh, she does the clock 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:34.760 time call, you know what I'm saying. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's one of the one of our 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.719 biggest jobs is to bring it, bring it with the 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:40.320 time call. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:40.760 Yeah. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.920 And I feel like after I did Snack Masters, because 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.640 we had to do a lot of those, is when 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.560 I came back to do a guestie, I remember thinking, 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.000 I think I nailed. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.760 That that but so different. It felt so different to 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.239 how I've done it before. I was always so tentative 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.000 and they'd be like knowing more, poet more and I 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.040 and I just couldn't do it. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.439 And then when I came back after having done that, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.000 there was definitely a great training ground for me for sure. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.480 Well, yeah, it's like picking up a few metals along 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.920 the way, do you know what I mean, Like once 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.760 you've got those metals on the chest. Yeah, we all right, exact. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.880 We have to quickly talk about this because I'm running 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.360 out of time, But I just want to say, what 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.120 can you tease me about our new chefs? What can 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.680 you tell me about Jean Christophe and Sophia? What can we. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.960 Okay, okay, Sofia and I get all like a house 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:26.480 on fire. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.760 She's hysterical. We crack each other up. We are so. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:35.400 Similar in many ways, and we're now sort of at 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.200 the point where it feels like. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.360 I've never not known her. 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.040 She's just we finish each other's sentences off. She's always 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.280 like if I if I'm talking and waving a piece 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.680 of food around in my hand, next minute I know 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.160 she's munching on it. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:53.520 There's no hold, bar no, no hold, no is it? No? 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.280 I think that's what it is. Don't ask me. I'm 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.080 terrible at those things. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.840 I get thement and John Christov is an absolute darling. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.600 He's incredibly passionate, and I think it took us a 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:05.720 while to understand. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:08.920 No, no, not that. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.200 But there's like a massive cultural difference with you know, 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.680 their sensibilities and his classical training. He was just kind 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.800 of amazed at how unorthodoxly we cook. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.080 In Australia because I think as we don't. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.640 Have that steep tradition in food, we borrows from so 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.560 many from all our migrant cultures. I think that freaked 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.400 him out a little bit and he was even a 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:38.680 little bit maybe what's the word for it, offended. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:38.080 By some of our ways. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.520 But he's not coming back for another series. Okay, fair enough. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:46.640 The sweetest guy, incretibly passionate, and he's just such a 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.840 different vibe in the kitchen. I think people are going 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.880 to absolutely adore him. There's going to be so many 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.960 means from him because he is. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.120 Just and he's hilarious as well. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:03.280 Like he's just he's just got so many funny mannerism. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.880 He's got all his little like turn of phrases that 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.160 he uses in the kitchen more than any of us, 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:10.640 I think. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.280 And yeah, he's sounds like he is giving chef from 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:16.240 the Muppets vibes. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:17.400 No, no, no. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.160 He's definitely got more and more more serious than that, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.240 I think. But he's also got a really fun side 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.720 to him, but yeah, he's really done the hard yards. 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.120 He's got a fascinating story actually, like how he came 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.360 to earn his first Michelin star and it's all he's 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.760 ever known, is I think it's all he's ever known 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.840 since he was like fourteen or eleven, I think really young, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.760 maybe even the eleven wow, oh yeah. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.880 Yeah, well that we can't not talk about these contestants 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.640 so very quickly. The selection of contestants is always quite 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.200 interesting to me because when the show starts, they all 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.160 seem like you know, normis you know what I mean, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.640 like every day Aussies that you know has nothing. By 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.640 the end of the show, we become obsessed with them. Yes, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.480 can you tell me who your favorite is? And I 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.920 don't give me any of this not without my daughter stuff. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.400 You can't pick your children or any of those vibes. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.200 Do they tell you that? As the producer saying to you, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:07.640 don't have a sign, I don't. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.560 No, no, I don't want to because it's not it's 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.640 not no they are they are all my children. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:18.800 Okay, Well that's that's that's all. Well, that's fine, that's 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.920 I mean, they're going to be good though, right, that's 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.360 what you can tell me, Oh. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.080 Yeah, they're amazing. 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.840 This year, I feel like there's been a real return 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:28.320 to sort of home cooking. 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.320 I mean, you get a few fancy. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.840 Dishes here and there, and of course there's always you know, 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.639 pressure tests to keep everyone you know, on the edge 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.320 of their seats. But I love that there's a lot 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.159 of different cultural cuisines this year because that's absolutely what 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:42.200 floats my boat. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.760 So yeah, I'm obsessed with that. I'm obsessed with good 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.439 I'm obsessed with all of that cultural flavor. I mean 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:48.920 I was a kid where my mum used to say, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.160 what takeaway do you want? You want hungry Jackson McDonald's, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.840 and I'd say, I want Indian food. Oh really Yeah, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.639 I had a real strange taste for it. I have 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.120 to let you go. So the last question I ask 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.240 anyone who joins this podcast is what is something from 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.520 behind the scene? And like, this's a good question for 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.879 you to ask, because this is not a behind the 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.680 scenes of being a contestant of Master Chef, but what's 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.640 something from behind the scenes of now being. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.879 Okay, it's a judging process. 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.040 I'm so shocked because when I was a contestant, I 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:21.760 used to be right with conspiracy theories, I thought, but 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.639 we really only judge the dish. It's not about potential, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.000 it's not about Wow Path cooks, it's not about the person. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:35.640 We literally just take the dish apart and it's really we. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.400 Has it out and sometimes it gets quite hinted. 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.359 Oh okay, well I like that. Hopefully we get to 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.120