1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 2: Well, our next guest went from a runner up on 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 2: Mastership fifteen years ago to now being a judge of 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 2: the series. The new season hits tonight, so we thought 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 2: we'd get her on our great friend Poe. 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 3: Hello, Hello Poe, Hello man James, both of you, we. 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: Are very well. This is an amazing story arc for you. 8 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: You were runner up, as we say, fifteen years ago, 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: you went back on in recent years and by then 10 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: you're already a celebrity and here you are as a judge. 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 4: It must feel great. 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: It feels very surreal. Indeed, I know that word is 13 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 3: you've overused a lot, but it's just such a crazy 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 3: full circle moment for me to think fifteen years ago 15 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 3: that I nearly didn't rock up to my second audition. 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 3: I mean, it's a choice that's just had, you know, 17 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: that's just like the thinks doesn't stopped giving. 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: Why didn't you come to your second audition? What was happening? 19 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: You were just running late or he just didn't want 20 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: to do it. 21 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 3: No, back then, reality TV was just still such an 22 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 3: unknown and I just sort of started to make ground 23 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 3: with my art and was getting profiled a little bit 24 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 3: and getting you know, that was sort of starting to 25 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 3: be smooth sailing, and I just thought, am I just 26 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 3: going to bin this all by going on a reality 27 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 3: TV show and be on Current Affair as begrudged? I 28 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 3: don't know, X contested. I just could see this thing 29 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 3: sort of play out in this really awful way, and 30 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 3: it just sort of freaked me out, and I thought, 31 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 3: maybe that's not for me. So I decided not to 32 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 3: do it because I'd worked so hard to build my 33 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: career to that point. 34 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 4: And what happened? 35 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: You thought? 36 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 4: What at the last me? I thought, no, I will 37 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 4: go along. 38 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 3: No. A producer called me, and you know that producers, right, 39 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 3: they're very can i'man convincing people. 40 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: But obviously saw something in you which is pretty amazing. 41 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 2: Are you going to be able to be tough? Because 42 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: one of the things about being a judge is being tough. 43 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 2: You are one of the world's nicest people, and also 44 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 2: you know what it's like to be a contestant. 45 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 4: Is it going to be hard for you to be 46 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 4: tough when you need to be? 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 3: Amanda? You don't know that they're very intense side to 48 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 3: my person out, a. 49 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 4: Mean side to Poe mean. 50 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 3: No, I think when you're creative, you do have to 51 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 3: have that intensity to get stuff done because you know 52 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 3: you're a self starter. You have to be self motivated. 53 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 3: But no that you know, there are times when we 54 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 3: have to be hard on the contestant. Never never mean, 55 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 3: because that's just not the nature of the show. We 56 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 3: want kids to be able to watch it and have 57 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 3: it the aspirational It's always been about that. But you know, 58 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 3: at the end of the day, we have to make 59 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 3: the most fair and thorough decisions. So sometimes we go 60 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 3: backstage and we're very where it gets heated about decisions 61 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 3: that we make. 62 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: And have you got some sort of catchphrase like disgustingly good? 63 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: Are you going to start wearing a crazy cravat? 64 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 3: I haven't got anything at to move yet. I think 65 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 3: mine might be just staring at the ceiling and like 66 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 3: trying to find my words. 67 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 4: Well, we'll look out for that. 68 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: I think like a master chef needs, like a little 69 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: someone with a parrot on their shoulder or something, just 70 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: stop wearing a parrot on your shoulder and. 71 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 4: So you can be nice. But the parrot's mean. 72 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: The parrot's mean. Ah, that's that looks like that looks 73 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: like crap And you just blame the parrot. 74 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, I can blame the parrot for all the negative 75 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 3: comments and for. 76 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 4: All the mess on the floor. 77 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 3: For parrot. 78 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 4: Work for Columbo and then you can cook it up. 79 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 4: But now Colombo didn't have it. 80 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 3: It was. 81 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 4: They're very chewy. 82 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: How do you cook your parrot? 83 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: Well? 84 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: Looking forward to see you on Master Chef Australia. It 85 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: kicks off tonight seven thirty on ten and ten play pay. 86 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much for having me, guys. 87 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: I'd wait to see it. The parrot idea is ours? 88 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: Okay, I know someone who's eaten one, to be. 89 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 4: Honest, and what did they say? 90 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 3: What I like that were sort of out rule. They 91 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 3: said it was very tough. 92 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: I reckon it would be. 93 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 4: I have to soak it for a long time. 94 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: A tough bird. 95 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 4: Those parrots, I've been called worse.