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Speaker 1: fourteenth eliminated contestant from Master Chef Australia, which is on
Speaker 1: Network ten from Sunday through to Wednesday nights at seven
Speaker 1: point thirty. Dubbed the Sunshine in Human Form, Alex shone
Speaker 1: her light in the Master Chef Kitchen in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: One of the clear fan favorites if you read anything online,
Speaker 1: has sadly got the chop and I am a little
Speaker 1: bit shook. Despite earning a double degree in science, human
Speaker 1: biology and design fine Arts, it is food that's become
Speaker 1: the founding stone of Alex's career, working in fine food
Speaker 1: sales and specializing in gourmet products, cheese and small goods.
Speaker 1: Her daily exposure to the food scene has further fueled
Speaker 1: the fire inside of her, and Alex knows that cooking
Speaker 1: is no longer just a hobby. I have to admit
Speaker 1: I have absolutely loved catching up with Alex. I haven't
Speaker 1: laughed as hard as this in a while, and to
Speaker 1: be fair full disclosure, I had to edit out most
Speaker 1: of my laughing as I sounded ridiculous like foghorn, leghorn.
Speaker 1: Alex will unpack everything from cute chefs, green hands, and
Speaker 1: why she believes that when it's not your season, it's
Speaker 1: simply not your season. We will also unpack the Master
Speaker 1: Chef kitchen in terms of telling judges to back off,
Speaker 1: quietening down the gantry, and if swearing actually happens in
Speaker 1: the kitchen in real time. I will ask you about sports
Speaker 1: bet and if you can bet on yourself, and Alex
Speaker 1: will reveal while she hated those betting ods. We will
Speaker 1: also discuss if they needed a passport to get onto
Speaker 1: the show clearly with Hong Kong coming up, and what
Speaker 1: songs became their anthems during filming. There's actually so much
Speaker 1: to unpack with Alex, so sit back and relax as
Speaker 1: she unpacks the wonderful world of Master Chef Australia.
Speaker 2: Ben, How I am.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? I want to know right away do
Speaker 1: you still have green fingers?
Speaker 3: Can confirm I do not have green fingers, but it
Speaker 3: took me so long to get that way.
Speaker 1: Like you'd be scrubbing your hands for days, going to
Speaker 1: scrub this off my hands. I need to get rid
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: You know, I literally used every last drop of shampoo
Speaker 3: and body wash and even the hotel bar so to
Speaker 3: get rid of that.
Speaker 2: Literally, I was scrubbing away Shrek fingers. Alex.
Speaker 1: You know, we all do this, and we all watch
Speaker 1: our favorite shows, and we think and we believe that
Speaker 1: the people that we see on TV are our friends.
Speaker 1: And you are someone I think Australia would just love
Speaker 1: to have a slumber party with.
Speaker 2: Hopefully that's PG.
Speaker 1: No, oh my god, that is that is home.
Speaker 2: I'm held down for a slumber.
Speaker 1: Like you bring the wine and the food and your
Speaker 1: gorgeous personality and off some matching pajamas.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: With a I'm so down for so long as we
Speaker 3: could watch like Mean Girls or Hot Chick or like.
Speaker 2: Some silly rom com you know, chick Flick. I'm there,
Speaker 2: let's do it.
Speaker 1: I once did this so embarrassing. I was asked to
Speaker 1: present it a charity and then they had like a singer,
Speaker 1: like a famous singer, and it was someone from the
Speaker 1: Voice and so you know, I had a few drinks
Speaker 1: with them, and then I was like, you know, you
Speaker 1: should come back to my place. My partner would love
Speaker 1: to meet you. And you know, it was kind of
Speaker 1: like facilitating this fantasy of you know that the people
Speaker 1: on TV are your friends. And I made this person
Speaker 1: watch episodes of the Voice.
Speaker 2: And I never heard from the memory again. Yeah, was
Speaker 2: that traumatic for them?
Speaker 1: They did not understand what I was doing. It was
Speaker 1: so uncomfortable for them. And they never ever spoke to
Speaker 1: me ever again. So I realized how awkward that that
Speaker 1: whole scenario is. I kind of wanted my own DVD
Speaker 1: audio commentary on the show.
Speaker 2: Look, there's one rule.
Speaker 3: If we do get together for a sum but we
Speaker 3: are absolutely not watching Mastership, and especially not the last
Speaker 3: episode that I was eliminated on because I refuse to watch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I think that that's fair enough. Now,
Speaker 1: Hugh Allen reminds me of how talented man syndrome can
Speaker 1: make someone so attractive, sort of brings another element to him.
Speaker 1: What did you learn from being in that final cook
Speaker 1: and having such close contact with him?
Speaker 2: What did I learn?
Speaker 3: To be honest, I don't think my brain was actually
Speaker 3: functioning that whole cook. I felt like everything that kind
Speaker 3: of went in one ear came out the other and
Speaker 3: everything I was doing was in such a flurry, almost
Speaker 3: can't recall most of it.
Speaker 2: What did I learn?
Speaker 3: Assistance is key, like just keeping on until the job
Speaker 3: is done and don't become two stars struck by cute
Speaker 3: boys in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting because that Banksier pod dish, as Sophia said,
Speaker 1: was mind blowing. But also that's my ultimate fear about
Speaker 1: being on a show like this is coming across a
Speaker 1: dish like that. I wonder whether that becomes super duper intimidating.
Speaker 1: Was that dish?
Speaker 3: It was so intimidating I actually had a little cry
Speaker 3: because there was no way in my right mind that
Speaker 3: I thought I could ever make something like that.
Speaker 2: So the fact that I got it all on a plate,
Speaker 2: although it didn't look the.
Speaker 3: Part or taste the part whatever, so be it. It
Speaker 3: was all up there, every element, as best as I
Speaker 3: could have done in the circumstances. So yeah, very intimidating,
Speaker 3: super intimidating, but I gave it my best shot.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that even something that we can make
Speaker 1: at home? Like, do you think that's something that the
Speaker 1: everyday Australian could see that and follow a recipe? Like
Speaker 1: that at home or do you need to be at
Speaker 1: the level that you guys are.
Speaker 3: Look To be honest, you probably could, and only because
Speaker 3: you don't have the pressure of that damn master chef
Speaker 3: clock above your head and people screaming at you, you know,
Speaker 3: judges coming over to interview you whilst you're like on
Speaker 3: page bloody twenty of this eighty page long or what
Speaker 3: felt like eighty page long recipe. I feel like you
Speaker 3: probably could do it, whether I recommend that, No, I
Speaker 3: probably wouldn't because it would take you the whole day.
Speaker 1: I reckon when the judges come over. This is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether this is something more about me,
Speaker 1: But do you ever just go not now?
Speaker 2: Yea, all the time, literally all the time.
Speaker 3: But I'm just so polite, and I just I say
Speaker 3: it as if it comes across as a joke when
Speaker 3: I'm very well meant it.
Speaker 2: It's like literally shoefly like, bye, I don't have time
Speaker 2: for this right now.
Speaker 3: I don't think you realize, but I'm actually under an
Speaker 3: immense amount of stress and pressure to get this up
Speaker 3: on a plate so that you.
Speaker 2: Can eat this. But if you keep festering me, it's
Speaker 2: not gonna happen, and.
Speaker 1: How much of what they're saying up on the gantry,
Speaker 1: you know, the safe contestants, because they're often yelling things out,
Speaker 1: can you actually hear? Because I feel like I would
Speaker 1: either be distracted by them or I'd probably tune them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so funny. So on the Hugh Allen episode My
Speaker 3: Last Cook, I think I remember a point in time
Speaker 3: that because in the first part of that cook, I
Speaker 3: was so flustered, like I wasn't getting anything done, and
Speaker 3: I was organizing my bench of all things, trying to
Speaker 3: keep clean, and.
Speaker 2: I remember Dash and that just being like, stop trying
Speaker 2: to tel just get onto it. You're so har behind.
Speaker 3: And I think they just kept saying push, push, push,
Speaker 3: And I remember turning up to them for a hot
Speaker 3: minute and being like, guys.
Speaker 2: Can you just leave me alone for a sec? I
Speaker 2: need a focus and I can't.
Speaker 3: Like I was in I just felt like I was
Speaker 3: pulled in every direction. So yeah, you definitely can tune
Speaker 3: them out, but it's almost impossible sometimes and sometimes and
Speaker 3: very politely, you just have to ask them to just
Speaker 3: give you some space so you can focus and retrain
Speaker 3: your thoughts because there's a lot going on in that kitchen.
Speaker 1: I wonder how many times in the history of Mastershef
Speaker 1: have they cut out of the edit if you c
Speaker 1: k off, you know, like you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because you know, it's interesting about this show because there's
Speaker 1: so many wonderful people. They're so nice on this show
Speaker 1: that one of the most delicious things about this show
Speaker 1: is the warmth of the people that are cast on
Speaker 1: this show. Maybe yeah, not the sort of people that
Speaker 1: say that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: They know that is incorrect.
Speaker 3: And I can speak from experience because I have such
Speaker 3: a potty mouth. I would never say something that was
Speaker 3: a fence or mean, but I can definitely drop the
Speaker 3: F bomb way too much. And there I feel so
Speaker 3: sorry for the editors because they would have had not
Speaker 3: a fun time trying to cut out the amount of
Speaker 3: F words I had said.
Speaker 2: About this season, we might seem, you know, really innocent.
Speaker 3: And sweet, but we definitely have some spicy tongues sometimes.
Speaker 1: So I'm into that. Yeah, I'm into that. I want
Speaker 1: to watch Master Chef Australia after dark.
Speaker 3: That's so funny because we actually joked about that on
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be cool to have an after dark uncut
Speaker 2: Raw on Raw episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I it would just completely grab a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: I reckon it would be so much fun.
Speaker 1: This is what I was thinking of talking to you
Speaker 1: about about the judges on the double faking of what
Speaker 1: the dishes actually taste like. And it also is very
Speaker 1: much heightened by the style of music that's playing. But
Speaker 1: I often watch these judges trying to you know, trying
Speaker 1: the food, and you can't ever tell what they truly
Speaker 1: think until they speak, because sometimes I look like they're
Speaker 1: about to say something's bad, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, out of nowhere, Poe will just be like,
Speaker 1: this is the best silkiest.
Speaker 2: Signe and You're like, what.
Speaker 3: Literally, it's like, it's so I don't even know how
Speaker 3: to put into words how anxiety triggering it is bringing
Speaker 3: out a meal to those judges and in front of everybody,
Speaker 3: and then they pull these funny faces. They kind of
Speaker 3: put their eyes to the sky as if they're thinking,
Speaker 3: and then you just really don't know where you're at,
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you get these really marvelous feedback,
Speaker 3: or it could go the complete opposite way, and it's
Speaker 3: just like the worst thing they've ever tried in their life.
Speaker 1: Are they filming that for a long time? Like, are
Speaker 1: they pulling those faces? Because this is all I can
Speaker 1: think about is that they must make them pull, like
Speaker 1: they're like, Okay, we're going to have the camera on
Speaker 1: you tasting your food. Now give us three different versions.
Speaker 1: I mean, you must look like four neurodivergent people sitting
Speaker 1: there trying to work out what the flavors are.
Speaker 3: Maybe they just have like a secret sign language that
Speaker 3: we don't know about, and it's like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe they're talking to the mastership of gods upstairs with
Speaker 3: different sign languages that we just don't understand as contestants.
Speaker 2: But honestly, it's so daunting, and we.
Speaker 3: Could be standing there for often for half an hour,
Speaker 3: just standing there waiting to receive or be told that
Speaker 3: it's great or it's not. And each of the judges,
Speaker 3: and bless them, they were wonderful, but.
Speaker 2: They each give their piece of feedback and advice, and
Speaker 2: it takes a long time.
Speaker 3: It's exhausting, and often in the moment you're not actually
Speaker 3: absorbing anything.
Speaker 2: Well I was in anyway, it would come in one
Speaker 2: ear and go out the next.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's scary stuff, but it's equally as
Speaker 3: fun and it's great to receive also.
Speaker 1: Feedback to My heart is beating just thinking about it,
Speaker 1: Like my heart is like believing what it would be
Speaker 1: like to be sitting there in that chair. And interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: like with last night, it felt like that Sav was
Speaker 1: going home. How did it fall in the moment? Is
Speaker 1: that the magic of editing that they did that.
Speaker 3: I think in the moment as well as Sav deeply
Speaker 3: believed that she was going home. And you know, I
Speaker 3: can totally relate because that was like flashback to the
Speaker 3: Curtis Stone keeping up with which was such a horrible
Speaker 3: moment for me because I genuinely thought that that was
Speaker 3: going to be me leaving and not so so. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think with every different challenge, you're running your own rape.
Speaker 3: You don't know what others are doing. You're focused on
Speaker 3: everything that you were doing. So yeah, in the moment,
Speaker 3: you only know what you've done and how you feel,
Speaker 3: and yeah, you definitely convince yourself that you're going home.
Speaker 3: There's been plenty of times where I thought that for myself,
Speaker 3: and to be honest, something I felt intrinsically in that
Speaker 3: week lead up to Hugh Allen's cook was that I
Speaker 3: thought it was going to be the end of my
Speaker 3: time soon or soon approaching.
Speaker 2: So it's just weird. Yeah, you just get this instinct feeling.
Speaker 1: At what point did you think you were going home? Though,
Speaker 1: Like as in, when did it really go okay? I
Speaker 1: think it's me for this particular.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, I think there was a moment when we.
Speaker 3: Had like our lunch break after the cook and I
Speaker 3: was sat there on the grass in the sun of
Speaker 3: Lockie and that and Dash, and we had the pillows
Speaker 3: out and we were just chilling in.
Speaker 2: The sun because that's what you do and you down time.
Speaker 2: And I just sat there with my thoughts for a moment,
Speaker 2: and I thought this was it. I didn't voice that,
Speaker 2: but in my gut, that's that's how I felt.
Speaker 3: And I was really actually at peace with that, to
Speaker 3: tell you the truth, Like, I've.
Speaker 2: Done some awesome stuff.
Speaker 3: I've met, you know, some of my biggest food idols,
Speaker 3: and I've made the best of friends.
Speaker 2: With literally everybody.
Speaker 3: I kid you not like it sounds so cliche, but
Speaker 3: I've formed such a connection with every single one of
Speaker 3: the contestants and the judges. So it was my time
Speaker 3: to go, and I truly believe that the universe has
Speaker 3: its ways, and when it's your season, it's your season,
Speaker 3: and when it's not, it's not.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I kind of just sat with that and
Speaker 2: that was Okay.
Speaker 1: You weren't in my bingo card for going home, let
Speaker 1: me tell you that much. Nor were you in any
Speaker 1: of my friends. We're on a group chat. We watched
Speaker 1: the episode and everyone's you know, texting away and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we. I think the group of friends that
Speaker 1: I have, we all had you in the final three.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a big shock to see
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: But I.
Speaker 1: Think you penetrated the audience really well. I think that
Speaker 1: when people think about only twenty four Master Chef, you
Speaker 1: are one of the faces that people will remember forever.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's so special.
Speaker 1: You know, you could be an excellent cook, you can
Speaker 1: win the show. There's many different things that can you know,
Speaker 1: sort of permeate when people watch a show like this.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's funny when you think back to some
Speaker 1: of the most iconic reality shows, people often get it wrong.
Speaker 1: People often say, oh, who was the winner of that year,
Speaker 1: and they get it wrong because it's one of the
Speaker 1: personalities that resonates that yeah, and connects that makes you think, oh,
Speaker 1: I think it was them.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm really glad you feel that about me. I
Speaker 3: feel like what you see is what you get. Like,
Speaker 3: you know, I definitely have my fair show of cringe
Speaker 3: worthy moments and some weird facial expressions, but I literally
Speaker 3: that is just me in the real world. And it's
Speaker 3: so funny having all my friends and family and colleagues
Speaker 3: reaching out being like, oh my god, you are exactly
Speaker 3: the same on the TV as you are in real life,
Speaker 3: and they just yeah, it's so cool, Like you just
Speaker 3: have to be yourself at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: And I think those who are truly themselves and sit
Speaker 3: well with themselves and understand who they are as people
Speaker 3: and accept that they do cool things, and they go
Speaker 3: really far with you know, a show like this in particular.
Speaker 2: So it's cool to hear your feedback. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: How did you feel though watching it back? Was there
Speaker 1: anything that you learned about yourself? Because the interesting thing
Speaker 1: about reality television is it does hold a mirror up
Speaker 1: against us, and yeah, that could be quite interesting as well,
Speaker 1: because you can see what other people see and watch
Speaker 1: things that you go oh, I didn't know I did that.
Speaker 3: Look to be honest, like, as I said, what you
Speaker 3: see is what you get, and I don't know how
Speaker 3: to be anybody.
Speaker 2: Else but myself.
Speaker 3: So what I saw on the TV watching back was
Speaker 3: like I didn't. I don't feel like I really learned
Speaker 3: anything different or new about myself watching back other than
Speaker 3: what I felt at the time. And I think reflecting
Speaker 3: back on it, it's like far out, like I'm actually
Speaker 3: capable of so much if I put my mind to it,
Speaker 3: And I think that's what I learned more than anything.
Speaker 3: Definitely not from watching myself on the Telly, but definitely
Speaker 3: in going through each of these challenges, just being able
Speaker 3: to sustain momentum and drive and yeah, get through it.
Speaker 1: Who do you think is going to win though at
Speaker 1: this point, because I thought anyone's game, Like I actually,
Speaker 1: if you seen me, yeah you get a million dollars
Speaker 1: if you can pick the winner of Mastership. I am
Speaker 1: no closer to a million dollars than ever before than
Speaker 1: I've ever been.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Literally, it's so tricky because everybody is so talented and
Speaker 3: talented in their own rights as well, and so it
Speaker 3: really just depends on the challenge when it comes to it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't tell you, but.
Speaker 3: I know you're going to be like, just pick one
Speaker 3: because I've listened to all your other podcasts, and because
Speaker 3: everybody is so talented in their own rights, it's going
Speaker 3: to come down to who I really, really really want
Speaker 3: to win, and purely because they are my ride or
Speaker 3: dive from the start. So I'm going to throw Dash
Speaker 3: under the bus here, No pressure, man, Yeah, let's go Dash.
Speaker 2: He's versatile, he's a gun.
Speaker 3: He just has this ability to focus and be calm,
Speaker 3: and I think that gets a long way in a.
Speaker 2: Competition like this. You've just got to be able to focus.
Speaker 3: Saying your own lane, be calm, but also not afraid
Speaker 3: to experiment.
Speaker 2: And he's very good at all of that. So let's
Speaker 2: go team wa Dash. I'm rooting for you.
Speaker 1: Don't let me down, and don't let anyone else come fear.
Speaker 1: That's all okay, But anyone else is smell in the competition,
Speaker 1: is listening to the pod. I'm going to be asking
Speaker 1: you soon, so you will be here too, my friends.
Speaker 1: I kind of asked you this a little bit early
Speaker 1: because I wanted to ask you about something that had
Speaker 1: been sitting on my mind. You know how you can
Speaker 1: bet online. I don't know if you've been aware of this,
Speaker 1: but there's like a sports I'm probably not even promoting
Speaker 1: their business correctly because it's probably not even sports, but
Speaker 1: it's probably something else. But yeah, do you know if
Speaker 1: contestants are allowed to bet on themselves?
Speaker 2: That would just be like the biggest no no.
Speaker 3: And I feel like even without it, well, it must
Speaker 3: be in our contract. But even without it being in
Speaker 3: a contract, we would absolutely not be doing that.
Speaker 2: But it's so funny you bring this up with the.
Speaker 3: Whole season, I've been at the bottom of the rank,
Speaker 3: so I've been told it's like nobody had faith in
Speaker 3: me from the start, so of course I was never
Speaker 3: gonna win this shit.
Speaker 1: Who puts that stuff together? Like, because okay, this is
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm going to share something with you about.
Speaker 1: This is the reason why I don't look at that
Speaker 1: because I used to look at it years ago. Anywhere
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, they were bringing Big Brother back and
Speaker 1: they had who is going to host the show? And
Speaker 1: I was at number one, and I was like, no
Speaker 1: one has called me. The only interest that anyone had
Speaker 1: in me hosting that show? I felt like there was
Speaker 1: some fantasy in the back back of my mind, and
Speaker 1: that's where I realized that whoever is creating these things, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to drink and don't know enough about it,
Speaker 1: and they don't know what they're talking about exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm going to put it down to that too, because
Speaker 3: I reckon, I shouldn't have been at the bottom. You know,
Speaker 3: I could have, you know, been there every now and then,
Speaker 3: but the whole way through. Guys, come on, I think
Speaker 3: maybe it was just my silly fun nature and they
Speaker 3: didn't take me serious enough. But anyway, top nine, I'm
Speaker 3: bloody stoked for that. I feel like a winner, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just take it.
Speaker 1: Just take it's fine, It's fine, one hundred.
Speaker 3: Percent taking it and running with it.
Speaker 1: Well, it sort of then leads me that off the
Speaker 1: back of that into what I have also been asking people,
Speaker 1: and that is who your favorite judge has been this season.
Speaker 1: It has been a very interesting question because I've actually
Speaker 1: been tallying the board. Oh awesome, and so I can
Speaker 1: tell you at this point of the competition that Hoe
Speaker 1: is in the front of the contestant's favorite judge. However,
Speaker 1: also been asking fans online who they have as their
Speaker 1: favorite judge and that is Jean Christophe.
Speaker 2: So really, isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting? And I feel like because of that,
Speaker 1: maybe you should say Sophia or Andy Allen just to
Speaker 1: help them out a little bit because they don't have
Speaker 1: anyone that's so funny.
Speaker 3: But that would just go against every grain in my
Speaker 3: body because I'm so truthful and honest and to be
Speaker 3: honest hoe and I've said this so many times. I've
Speaker 3: actually said it to her face too. She's my spirit
Speaker 3: animal and has been for a very long time. Like
Speaker 3: she is creative, she's down to earth, genuine, speaks her mind,
Speaker 3: lass it's not afraid to be silly, and that a
Speaker 3: person like that is somebody that I can just relate
Speaker 3: to on so many levels. And so from the very
Speaker 3: get go, she's been my favorite. Not to take away
Speaker 3: from anybody else's shine, because they're all fabulous in their
Speaker 3: own rights, they've all been wonderful, but there's just something
Speaker 3: special about her and something that I can just connect
Speaker 3: with on so many different levels.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's it's nuts. So sorry to not slice
Speaker 2: things up on your end, but you ask her the
Speaker 2: truth and there you go.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 1: I got it so interesting though, because you know, we
Speaker 1: as people, I think we are reluctant to be silly
Speaker 1: or to come across as silly. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: not everyone, but I feel like for me, that's what
Speaker 1: I like, you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, I like people to make mistakes, And we've come
Speaker 1: so far in television sort of with word perfect presenters
Speaker 1: and things like that, where I'm like, I like all
Speaker 1: the presenters that sound like they're being real, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, right, it's a reality show for a reason. You've
Speaker 3: got to be truly yourself. And I think if you
Speaker 3: allow yourself to just be yourself, that speaks, you know,
Speaker 3: such big things, and I think you're able to relate
Speaker 3: to more people because of that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think I'm all about being silly, and I'm probably I'm
Speaker 3: more than certain sure that you've seen me be.
Speaker 2: A little silly on the screen, and there's.
Speaker 3: Lots you didn't see because I had my fair share
Speaker 3: of silly moments, as I touched on earlier. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I think the world would be so boring without silliness
Speaker 3: and just completely open and honesty. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: if we accept silliness and let that be a thing
Speaker 3: on TV.
Speaker 2: Then the world would just be so much happier for it.
Speaker 2: I think it allows everybody to be.
Speaker 1: Real, right, Yeah, I think you did that, you know,
Speaker 1: And I think that that's something that they must make
Speaker 1: sure in the casting that they've got people like you
Speaker 1: in these shows because it just makes the show pop
Speaker 1: a little bit more. It helps us as an audience
Speaker 1: connect with the show better. I think you know, you
Speaker 1: can't have all silly people, but you can't have all
Speaker 1: serious people.
Speaker 2: That's a bit that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, putting in balance, and life is all about balance,
Speaker 3: isn't it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: I feel like, Alex, I could talk to you forever,
Speaker 1: but I now need to ask you my last question,
Speaker 1: which is, what is something from behind the scenes, something
Speaker 1: that we as an audience don't know and if you
Speaker 1: haven't prepared something, I have a question because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of chat. There's a lot of chat about this
Speaker 1: Hong Kong situation and how surprised everyone is when they
Speaker 1: say you are going to Hong Kong, which you've just
Speaker 1: missed out on. So I'm very sorry to be bringing
Speaker 1: out this point. Yeah, but do they tell you need
Speaker 1: to be to be successful on this season? Did they
Speaker 1: ask you that you need a passport?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: But I don't want to answer that question. I want
Speaker 3: to answer the behind the scenes question.
Speaker 1: Okay, you've already given me the answer that I wanted,
Speaker 1: so now it's not we don't need to go there.
Speaker 2: You can answer the next person that question. Okay. Behind
Speaker 2: the scenes, we obviously.
Speaker 3: I mean on an the screens, we are a fabulous,
Speaker 3: very lively bunch and we are very very harmonious. So
Speaker 3: there have been so many times where we all twenty
Speaker 3: two of us from the start and up until now,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure it's going to continue, we would just
Speaker 3: break out into song and dance like it was like
Speaker 3: an absolute choir in that kitchen, and.
Speaker 2: The crew would get involved, and every time.
Speaker 3: They would take the cut as well, like you know,
Speaker 3: when we had the camera guys and somebody jumps in
Speaker 3: with the what's the snappy thing called the slate?
Speaker 2: Oh, you know, and take one, take two.
Speaker 3: Every time somebody whacked down on that slate, all the
Speaker 3: contestants and the whole kitchen with all the crew, cameraman, judges,
Speaker 3: we just all break out in massive collaps and chants,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it was so fun, so cool, and it's
Speaker 3: such a shame that the world doesn't get to see
Speaker 3: that because it's such a powerful, very spiritual, fun, happy
Speaker 3: moment that would happen literally multiple times of every day.
Speaker 1: What was the go to song? Surely there's got to
Speaker 1: be someone was a Katy Perry's Hot and Cold.
Speaker 2: And there's no it was a Backstreet Boys song? What
Speaker 2: was it? I want it that way? Tell me why
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: That's ever given me some.
Speaker 3: I tell you what though, Savvy and Juan they have
Speaker 3: got lungs from angels, so yeah they you know, they
Speaker 3: very well might be on your next idol or the boy.
Speaker 1: You can already see the package you won't believe From
Speaker 1: Master Chef, I just want to say thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your contribution to this season, for bringing so
Speaker 1: much light and so much you know, sunshine, your skill
Speaker 1: as well with your cooking, and thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being so generous and.
Speaker 2: Chatting with me today.
Speaker 1: I've had such a lovely time in your audience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much. It's been a special and
Speaker 2: wonderful time.
Speaker 3: And although the end of my Mastershare Kitchen journey It's
Speaker 3: definitely the beginning of my next biggest chapter journey, So
Speaker 3: bring it on, everybody, stay tune. I'm really excited to
Speaker 3: get stuck into the real world again.
Speaker 1: Well, Alex, they bring people back on this show, so
Speaker 1: big personalities, we sometimes see them back, so put that
Speaker 1: on the board.
Speaker 2: I'm manifesting us out there in the universe to arrange
Speaker 2: amazing Alex.
Speaker 1: Look after yourself. It was so lovely to chat with
Speaker 1: you and chatting with the media today, and thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Ben, you are lovely and wonderful.
Speaker 2: It's been a great pleasure.