WEBVTT - ALDO'S EMOTIONAL MASTERCHEF EXPERIENCE UNPACKED 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.000 TV Reload the podcast last week. They might welcome back 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.039 to TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and on this 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.280 podcast I go behind the scenes with the biggest players 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.640 in television. Each episode you will get a front row 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.560 seat with content makers like executive producers, writers, editors and 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.400 casting agents, plus the talent that we see on our screens. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.400 TV Reload reloads the shows that you were currently watching 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.800 and gives you a better insight at our television industry 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.520 and streaming services today. On the podcast, I have Master 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.600 Chef Australia's Gorgeous to Taliano Aldo. I have loved watching 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.920 Aldo's journey on Master Chef Australia. He cooked with a 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.239 lot of heart and gave the competition everything. If he 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.600 wasn't crying, we certainly were at home as he told 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.200 stories about his life and shared cooking techniques that allowed 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.280 us as an audience to wholeheartedly fall in love with 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.080 him all over again. It was sad to see him 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.840 go as he went up against fellow Master Chef Australia 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.800 favorites Billy and Julie. He did his best with a 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.080 pressure test that included a vegetable that, in his words, 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.760 has no flavor. We will talk about his husband and 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.319 the choices they made for his return to the show. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.759 We do discuss the crying and the sweat and thankfully 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.480 no blood that went into his time in the kitchen. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:24.240 And we will also and he and we in the 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.920 kitchen and what he thinks needs to happen next for 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:32.080 the reality show, which he unconditionally loves. However, let's get 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.240 started with today's guest. I'd like to welcome Aldo to 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:36.160 TV Reload. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.000 I'm very bad, Actually, I'm so bad. Muster Sheriff has 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.880 produced some of the biggest names in food. I don't 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.040 know how to fake that. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:52.520 Actually, the first time ever it's funds versus favorites. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.080 My husband gave me a secret that my mum she 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:56.720 was there. 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.720 Coming back a second time has clarified the direction that 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:01.840 you're cooking has taken. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.240 Seriously, who doesn't want to come back to be a 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:06.360 featured ingradient. 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.799 Have the biggest heart that I've ever encountered in my life. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.240 But I definitely want to finish Michael book. 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.400 Hi Eldo, how are you. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.320 Hey, Ben? I'm very good, Thank you. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.080 Well, congratulations on your time on Mastership Australia. You have 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.800 played an epic and somewhat of an emotional part in 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.639 this series. How have you gone watching it over the 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:29.520 last few months. 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.720 Well, I must say I hated myself with the amount 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.280 of time that I cried on camera and as much 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.480 as I wasn't afraid back then to share my emotions, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.080 but then watching an over and over and over, I thought, 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.760 you bloody idiot, you very lay yourself court so easily 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:47.840 every single time. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.600 I loved that about you though. I just thought you 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:55.320 were so relatable and we probably have an idea of 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.960 how we want to present ourselves and then it's probably 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.440 not as it's not as easy as you think not 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:00.880 to cry. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.560 No, it's even not there. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.800 I didn't have any single idea or the way that 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.000 I want to come across on TV. It was just there. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.200 It was so intense, and every single thing that I 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.799 achieved in the kitchen was family related, and not being 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.200 able to see my family for the past three years 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.839 always was a ride there back thoughts triggering myself all 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.440 the time, and then of course my type of start 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.519 to open up and my start to cry like a baby. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.240 I can't do anything Unfortunately, I'm very emotional. I'm an 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.000 emotional guy. So has happened so many times. But some 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.360 say I said, okay, you need to stop, because you 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.440 actually cried so much, you're gonna be remembered as the 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.440 crying baby of season fourteen. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.800 What's the saying, Blood, sweat and tears is what you 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.640 put into that's your Master Chef experience. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.840 That's absolutely right. For sure, I would say that I 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.960 didn't know myself back. I give one hundred percent of 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.960 myself from beginning to hand, and that is something that 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.920 I'm very happy with. I'm proud of, and I'm proud 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.280 that the message of showcasing the Italian heritage and food 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.080 that I love so much, it came across very well 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:07.560 on the show. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.280 Well, you've done so well and you've made it to 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.560 the week before finals week. How did this experience this 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:14.560 time round go for you? 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.400 It actually was so much better than my first stife, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.040 and not just in terms of progression in the competition, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.919 but also in terms of human connection and bond that 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.640 I coming out of Master Chef Season fourteen, I got 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.200 a friend for life, friend that I can seriously call 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.640 my family now. And you know, it's that's I think. Well, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.680 nobody understand about Master Chef. Yes, it is a cooking show. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.040 But when you get locked up in a room with 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.080 other people that they're speaking your same language, and then 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.599 when you get down to the end of the competition 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.080 where the groupe iss more, everybody start to open up 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.160 and then a new thing comes to life, which is 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.679 the friendship, the deep connection, the bonds, and you start 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.000 to see those people really like family, you know. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.320 Julia revealed just this way that she'd consulted her psychologists 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.680 before agreeing to join Master Chef Australia. Fans versus favorites. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.080 What kind of a process did you have to go 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.200 through before saying yes? 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.200 Well, I went through the process of consulting my husband 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.000 because the first time around that I went away in 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.560 my first season, it was hard on him because we 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.920 have been apart and we didn't have a time of 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.400 phone call of just being able to come out on 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 the weekend seeing each other, and that was hard. So 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.680 before getting to say yes, I said, look, that's other 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.360 condition that are a little bit different. I'm going to 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.320 be able to have my phone, you can reach me anytime, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.440 and are you gonna cope with that? Me for it 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.760 can be a week, could be up to six months. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.760 And because we've got three dogs as well, it's lots 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.760 of work to do. So are you ready to take 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.000 it on board? Because along the way, if you're gonna 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.840 say you're gonna just bring back that I've been away 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.440 for a month, a week or six months or whatever 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.160 it is, I don't want to hear that. So make 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.040 sure that you make peace with that. I don't want 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.359 to hear anything once I'm coming back. So you agree 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.159 on the notes, and then I say, okay, now I 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.960 can finally agree on going back. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.880 You sound like me with my partner. I'm a big 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.960 personality in my home, and so it starts off with 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.320 you know, like, yes, you can go. But then after 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.000 a while, my partner seems to miss me while I'm 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.920 gone and he starts to crave that big energy back 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:21.760 into the house. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.920 Well, and that's the thing, and I say, make up 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.680 your mind. I don't want to hear anything along the way. 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.800 Unfortunately it's a reality and I'm gone. I can't come 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.359 in and out, in and out as uppened towards the 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.080 end when with the three round of elimination, and that 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.120 is something that I didn't go very well on myself. 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.520 Probably that's what I also as played a big part 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:49.400 in my process. Towards the end. My father in law 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.599 was just brought to hospital on the day when Tommy 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.920 got eliminated, and that's why also I didn't feature at 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.680 the end of his elimination. I need to live set 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.080 because I need to go and see my housband and 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.080 just check on his dad as well. And from then Auntie, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.400 when I got eliminated, has been all the roller coasta. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.920 I was there, but mentally I wasn't there. It was 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.000 hard and that's all part of myself then going back 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.560 and say, wow, I missed out on these kind of 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.239 things because I was here. I didn't support my husband. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.560 But then the other end, he said, I know what 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.920 was going to happen. I know that you were there, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.880 so I couldn't ask for anything from you. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.160 Has he enjoyed watching you on this series. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.600 Well, he's enjoyed the lot. Last night, while we were 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.360 watching the episode, just at the end, after listening my 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.600 speech and everybody talking about myself, he went silent and 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.560 he turned his space around and he was crying. That's 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.920 he said, But why are you crying? Because you just 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.560 got eliminated, and everybody spoke so kindly about you, like 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.600 I can't believe that those people they love you so 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.360 much and I'm actually take down and you share with 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.360 those people are just proud of you. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.640 Yeah, that's so nice to hear. Do you know if 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.760 any potential favorites that were contact to turn the experience down? 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.800 Do you know if anyone was asked to come back 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.640 for this format and they said. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.800 It's aarly confidential. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.800 You can't believe that they Even when my mom she 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.080 came on the shore. It was so funny because I 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.840 was working on Chapel Street and my husband took her 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.840 on Chapel Street. Mark called me and said where are 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.480 you And he said, I'm on Chapel Street. I'm with 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.520 Mindy and Cliff, which is an assistant producer there. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:26.760 It's around the house with us. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.840 Said okay, just to let you know, I'm coming to 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.959 Melbourne tomorrow to see dad, so just so I want 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.480 to make sure where we are you and if you 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.920 went around there were five hundred meters away from where 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:38.360 I was. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:39.680 My husband kept. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.400 Me secret that my mom she was there from the 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.200 Sunday and even my sister to make making sure that 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.320 my mom she was not giving anything away. She said, Mom, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.280 you signed a confidentiality that if you're gonna tell to somebody, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.040 gonna be fine. Like that's the thing that they kept 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.520 away from me until at the very end. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.640 Well, I guess that means it might be highlight of 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.760 your series. But what was your highlight from returning to 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:04.400 the series? 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.120 Oh? For sure, and in my mom there go from 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.120 the other side of the world. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.880 Like when I saw my mom there as just I 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.800 would have said, you know what, I don't want to 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.720 cook see everybody, Let me enjoy the time with my mom. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.640 I don't need to cook for her. She knows that 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:21.240 I can cook. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:21.920 So I want to go. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.199 I want to go and have a drink with my 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.200 mom and in dinner. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.160 It was so special. And consider that I've created and 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.559 missed even a huk from my mom and my sister 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.080 from the past three years, there was nothing that could 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.560 be matching that kind of rewards the gift that I 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.760 got received by the master production. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.760 You shared a fairly emotional story during the series, and 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.280 that was I think one of the reasons why I 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.959 gravitated towards you as much as I did. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:52.520 My last time. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:57.520 That I was a home really was for my wedding actually. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:05.080 To my husband, and that is when my father decided 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.120 to not show up to the wedding because he thought 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:08.800 there was a. 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:16.920 Circus and that's when I cut it off. I cut 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:17.920 him out of my life. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.720 But I just do want to remember that part of 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:36.160 me being happy, and that's why I want to cook 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.400 this dish. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.760 Is it hard to have that kind of experience out 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.080 there for everyone to see or everyone to know. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:51.720 Well, it's hard. It's very hard to explain as well, 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.120 Like when you go the kind of I think that's missing, 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.840 you feel that there is something missing in your life 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.960 from the past three years, and you constantly they're seeing it, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.960 but you can't have it. And when he manifests, like 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.280 you just you just got blown away and you release 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:15.439 all the stress, anxiety, pressure, all the feeling animotion that 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.400 just come to surface and the only thing that you 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.360 can go is can do is just let it come 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.040 out and then debrief afterwards. 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.040 Have you spoken to your dad then, Like, as is 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.160 this experience back on Master Chef, Is it built any 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.760 bridges relationships? 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.840 No, not at all. I think that the person that 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.200 biologically is my father, it's that's where it stands to 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:46.200 know any connection at all. And unfortunately, sadly for him, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.240 he hasn't done anything in eight years that I've been 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.839 in Australia, So I don't see the need to do 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.760 anything now. After that I came on a national television 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.480 just putting everything so openly into the air. There is 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.960 no way they could clean year with myself. Unfortunately, I'm 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.760 thirty five going into my thirty six. I'm a very 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.280 well funed man. I got an opinion, an idea, and 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:11.840 I got a life and it's not going to be 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:12.640 part of my life. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.080 If my mom she has moved on from me, what's 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:16.200 the point of me going back. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.720 I mean, I just think you're incredibly brave and I 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.440 appreciated you sharing a story. What's it all allowing us 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.520 into your life? Like there's nothing better than seeing people 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.480 being authentically themselves on television because it makes us all 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.960 feel seene. You know, we've all got things in our life, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:33.880 complicated stories. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.400 Absolutely, and especially for us that we're coming from a 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.000 reality that I want to suck to say that we 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.640 are a minority, because we don't need to label us 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.439 as a minority. We are an existing part of society. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.400 We're not minority. We are the society, and the world 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.040 is rainbow. The world is gay. We got to face 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.560 the fact that the world is gay. I can't tolerate 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.840 anymore that there are people that they gotta hide, they 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.800 gotta not living their life because of people labeling them 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.200 or pointing in them. We got to be proud of 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.240 what we are, first of all, leg human being. We've 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.640 got to be proud of of being able to be 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.839 comfortable and living our life. There is nobody out there 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.240 there is more pressure than you. You just specialize everybody else. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.120 And that has to be a message that needs to 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.480 be spread across the globe because people they've got just 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.600 one life. And if you're missing out because you're too 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.760 scared or too afraid to show you truly are, because 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.120 you don't want to feel attacked, fuck everybody. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:30.040 Just be you. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.840 There's no time to waste because there are stupid people 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.280 out there. Just surround yourself with people that they love you, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:36.200 we love. 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.360 There's some great messages in that. Again, you know, you 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.280 just keep delivering, you know, pieces from your own heart. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.200 And I think that that's a really amazing currency that 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.000 you've had with connecting to your audience and the people 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:48.480 that love you. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.319 Well, I think that be myself has been the thing 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.800 that pened me the most, and I will never be 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:54.680 anybody else. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:55.960 I wouldn't be anything different. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.040 One thing we could all aspire to is Hugh Allen's 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.640 hair amazing moment last night where Alvin said that he 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:03.880 was like a Disney Prince. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.960 Oh my gosh, Hugh Allan, he's an amazing talent, a 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.000 twenty seven year old executive chief and one of the 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:17.680 best restaurants in Melbourne, and he looks like a Disney Prince. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.120 Was he really like a Disney Prince? 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.440 Well, you know it's I'm gonna sound so terrible, but 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.720 I didn't find the kind of magic of Disney Prince. 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.880 It probably could be good looking, but for me, it's no. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.160 It's just a pretty thing to look at it, but 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.160 it doesn't have any salt. It's just a nice piece 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.920 of fish. But we're not seasoning. I'm so bad. I'm 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.640 very bad. Actually, I'm so bad. And you if you 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:48.480 heard my thing, please just discard what I'm saying. Don't 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.040 bother by myself because you don't have to worry about it. 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.000 But that's my opinion. Sorry, I like people with the 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.040 That's the people that I'm drawn to, people that I 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.240 can have fun. I don't need to be shying, has 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.520 to be myself. I can be myself over the top. 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:06.000 Who is your favorite special guest amongst the cooking legends 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:06.600 that we've said? 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.520 Curtistone all the way, Curtistone all the way. When Kedston 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.040 walked in again one more time, thank Girling, I scrawled 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.160 the lots like, oh my god, it's just so good 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.240 to look at it. It's huge. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.880 And then as well as marcop You're white. In the 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.200 episode Marco said, arand on my bench so so long 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.119 talking to me about how much he loved the attachment 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.680 that I got to food and the history behind it. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.000 And as well as Rick Sign. Rick Sign was amazing. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.360 What is the best thing about Master Chef in your mind? 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.680 You know, why do you think that audiences love this 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:42.560 show so much? 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.160 Well, it is a cooking show. But at the other end, 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.360 people that love the backstory of people because you know, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.480 sometimes on and off you've got a backstory that it 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.680 gets shown and you learn much more about people's personality, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:16:00.160 and you show your personality. People definitely in love with you. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.040 I'm apart from a good cook your or I'm not 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.360 a great cook, you are. You can sure that through 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.720 the passion that you have during the cook or supporting 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.040 your teammates. And that's why this is one of the 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.120 best shots ever. And I will encourage everybody in their 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.600 love to get through the process of applying for marsh 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.440 because it's once in your lifetime. I have the pleasure 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.520 to do it twice. If I would be called in 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.600 for the third time, for sure, tick the box. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.560 I'm in again every series from now on. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.080 No, that would be too much, actually would be very 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:34.760 too much. Every four years. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.400 Probably consult your husband first away. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.880 Always, always, always, always consult the husband. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.840 Is there anything that you would change about the format 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.720 of the show? You know, you've done two different seasons 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.840 and you know they've tried different things, you know, is 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.480 there anything that you would change about Master Chef? 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.600 Well, I think that Machev is kind of sure that 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:02.120 now it's got to the fourteenth season, they need to 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.040 do something new and probably with the weather, I would 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.119 see it. It's to not eliminate anybody, but will be 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.480 going onto a score record because by the end of 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.560 the day, people that they're winning that just can get 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.240 pushed through an elimination, but then them in short, are 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.800 you just killed all the way through or them and 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.760 had great moments all the way through, but they're just 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.760 coming up at the very point the end of the competition. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.920 You know, you can get pushed through because people they 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.199 they filled or you know, it would be great to 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.720 see that all the twenty four people they start together 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.200 and they finished together, and then there is a scoreboard 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.399 and then you get winning from scoreboard. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.440 It's like it's like a tennis tournament. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.040 I think, you know, fourteen seasons in they could do 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.800 something different. I mean, it was great when they mixed 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.920 up the judges. I thought that was a great refresh. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.240 But yeah, you yes, Well there's been a few sickies 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.640 over the season because you guys were filming through COVID. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.600 Filming through COVID proved to be quite difficult. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.720 Look, we actually had been very good because we were 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.680 getting tested daily and masked up until the very end. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.720 But the issues that when we had our Christmas break, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.640 you know, people coming back and then they didn't show symptoms, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.959 and then they show symptoms after that. We all together 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.280 in the same green room on set, built together. You know, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.960 we share we shared the gems. We shared the lot, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.679 we shared the germs as well, So but that was 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.880 odd actually because to be blocked in an apartment, surrounded 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.680 by those four white walls and nothing to do, it 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.040 was just instantly hard. I went through all the Netflix 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.359 series that I stopped watching. I watched a lot of 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.119 The Ring three times, all the three in all the 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.520 three movies. And then I was constantly on the phone 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.680 with people that they were in Sydney or calling back home, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.160 facetiming all the time, and I was eating a lot. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.280 I put so much wetter on that week. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.840 Were you surrounded by all these amazing cooks cooking for 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:56.520 you as well? 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:57.520 Surely there was. 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.240 Some No nobody could ever brought your food in. That's 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.120 the issue, because yeah, the people that can't take anything 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.760 to you. So the assistant producer was asking in the morning, guys, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.160 what would you need? Did you need anything from the pantry? 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.119 You leave your shopping list, knock at the door, or 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.440 leave the back there and see you later. That's what 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:17.920 it's been very hard. 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.560 In your final episode, you revealed that cucumber. I was like, 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.320 this must be like standing on a c cucumber, which 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.040 no one ever wants. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.119 No, nothing, but like, seriously, who doesn't want a cucumber 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.199 to be a featured in radient? What can you do 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.560 with cucumber? Let's talk about how borrowing it is your cucumber, 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.760 and then you will understand my situation last night, Like 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.960 I tried to do on my best with what I got, 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:42.199 and I think that I did it. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.200 It was a great dish, So no fault, which is great, 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:46.480 happy happy time. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.159 Well, you were up against some really tough competition, you know, 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:51.760