Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
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Speaker 1: clicking and downloading on today's episode with the winner of
Speaker 1: mastershef Australia twenty twenty four. I have a terrible cold
Speaker 1: that might make me sound like a drag queen at times,
Speaker 1: and we did have a limited time with Nat as
Speaker 1: she was jam packed with media requests. However, it was
Speaker 1: the grand finale on Tuesday night that saw Nat up
Speaker 1: against Tasmanian butcher Pezzer, two very different cooks, each with
Speaker 1: a unique set of strengths. NAT certainly took some risks
Speaker 1: in that finale, but as they say, high risk comes
Speaker 1: high reward as Nat impressed the judges, scoring nines across
Speaker 1: the board, totaling thirty six points in the first round,
Speaker 1: Pezza falling just a little bit behind with thirty three points,
Speaker 1: giving Nat the three point lead heading into round two.
Speaker 1: The two very emotional cooks scored equal scores in the
Speaker 1: second challenge and the rest is history.
Speaker 2: As they say, with.
Speaker 1: An overall three point lead to our winner, we will
Speaker 1: unpack the nail biting finale and find out who Nat
Speaker 1: decided to watch the result with as it played out
Speaker 1: on national TV right across Australia. There is a great
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk about what it was like cooking with
Speaker 1: so much emotion in the kitchen. In that last episode,
Speaker 1: we will talk about who should come back for All Stars.
Speaker 1: We will also dive deep into the bonds between the
Speaker 1: cast and think you'll just hear the excitement in NAT's.
Speaker 2: Voice, which is actually quite endearing to listen to.
Speaker 1: There is actually so much to unpack with Nat, so
Speaker 1: sit back and relax as we unpack her winning experience
Speaker 1: in the Master Chef Australian Kitchen.
Speaker 3: Now, yes, how are you?
Speaker 2: Congratulations?
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you so much. I'm feeling good. Still
Speaker 4: pinching myself, but you know it's happened.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: I guess everyone wants to know how was last night like?
Speaker 2: What was it like?
Speaker 3: Honestly, last night was pretty surreal.
Speaker 4: I guess I thought I was definitely in for a
Speaker 4: doozy because I'm not a dessert person and I'm not
Speaker 4: a pressure tized person or am I recipe person?
Speaker 3: So that was hard?
Speaker 1: And how did you go? What were you doing while
Speaker 1: you were watching it. Did you get to choose who?
Speaker 1: Did you have people over to your house? Did you
Speaker 1: have a viewing party? Like?
Speaker 2: How did that go down?
Speaker 4: I definitely had a viewing party. I had it in
Speaker 4: Geelong with my brother's partners, family and my family and a.
Speaker 3: Few other friends.
Speaker 4: But it was so wholesome, it was so nice. I
Speaker 4: think if I had any more people, it would have
Speaker 4: been really really hard, because it's like it's almost like
Speaker 4: sensory overload, Like you're already overwhelmed by the fact that
Speaker 4: you know with the results, and then with everything else
Speaker 4: going on, it's just like it's insane.
Speaker 1: Did you have a few drinks? Were you conscious of
Speaker 1: getting up and facing the media today?
Speaker 3: I did have a.
Speaker 4: Few drinks, but I was very aware of the amount
Speaker 4: of media I had to do today and I was like,
Speaker 4: I need to be on my A game.
Speaker 3: I'm like, there's a lot going on today. It's just
Speaker 3: like back to back interviews.
Speaker 1: Crazy and watching it back. Did it feel like you
Speaker 1: could have a different perspective on how it actually went
Speaker 1: down on the day.
Speaker 3: I'm not really.
Speaker 4: I feel like how I watched it was definitely how
Speaker 4: it felt like I was. It was very stressful and
Speaker 4: I wasn't really sure. You just never know, like because
Speaker 4: I never saw what Pezz did, like what he dished up,
Speaker 4: so I didn't know he had missing elements, and so
Speaker 4: it was it was just crazy to watch and see
Speaker 4: how it was tense because obviously you don't see like
Speaker 4: everyone else as well, like the family watching and they
Speaker 4: were very stressed out as well.
Speaker 1: I think throughout the series. What's interesting about this show
Speaker 1: is you're watching it with one narrative and then when
Speaker 1: it was on the vision, you've got twenty plus narratives
Speaker 1: that are happening. And it must be such an eye
Speaker 1: opener to such a different perspective because all of these
Speaker 1: narratives are playing at the same time and you've only
Speaker 1: ever seen it through one you know, or two one lens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent, and like only like seeing
Speaker 4: the perspectives of everyone's dishes. Like the storytelling. I think
Speaker 4: it's quite beautiful as well. So I love the like
Speaker 4: it's it's so nice to see.
Speaker 1: Well, there was rumors that you guys would find out,
Speaker 1: you know, people were guessing when you would find out,
Speaker 1: like did you have to wait and watch it with
Speaker 1: the rest of Australia, And that's how you found out
Speaker 1: or did they give you a phone call to the day,
Speaker 1: like what happens with that? I mean I watched it
Speaker 1: live last night and yeah, they I've got no fingernails left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very intense.
Speaker 4: Honestly, it was hard to obviously keep it under wraps,
Speaker 4: but going to London helped a lot. It like completely
Speaker 4: distracted me from like the home entire thing. I was
Speaker 4: just completely removed from the home entire situation.
Speaker 3: So it was perfect.
Speaker 4: But like watching it last night was so so intense,
Speaker 4: Like you could just feel the aura in the air.
Speaker 4: It was just like everyone was just yeah, biting their nails,
Speaker 4: especially when I screwed up in like quite a few
Speaker 4: elements in the in the second round, I was like, oh, no.
Speaker 2: Which way is this going to go?
Speaker 1: I have a friend that lives in the north of
Speaker 1: North of Melbourne and said that they ran to you
Speaker 1: and they were like, well.
Speaker 2: They were a big fan by the way, that already been.
Speaker 1: And they were like texted me and said, just want
Speaker 1: you to know run internet and she's just as amazing
Speaker 1: in real life as she's on the television.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I've been so conscious.
Speaker 4: I've been running into so many people lately, or people
Speaker 4: have been running to me quite a lot lately, and yeah,
Speaker 4: I've been working at VOO and people have just been
Speaker 4: losing their.
Speaker 3: Mind every time they see me. And it's just such
Speaker 3: a weird thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just go from like no one and then
Speaker 4: just go into becoming someone that everyone kind of knows,
Speaker 4: and it's just it's an interesting feeling.
Speaker 1: Is it a strange experience to both want to win
Speaker 1: as hard as you both did? Because watching that finale,
Speaker 1: you know, Pesar was so emotional at times, you know,
Speaker 1: and that must.
Speaker 4: Be yeah, yeah, yeah, well Peasant, I like as much
Speaker 4: as people think that were quite different, we're so so
Speaker 4: similar in the way that we're so hard on ourselves
Speaker 4: to put a lot of pressure on ourselves, and maybe
Speaker 4: that's what got us to the end, because you know,
Speaker 4: we were trying so hard, and it is emotional because
Speaker 4: like you're so tired by the fifth fifty episode, you're
Speaker 4: so exhausted, and same with like creating, like creatively, it's
Speaker 4: so hard to think on your feet for that long,
Speaker 4: and so it's it's like everything kind of boils down
Speaker 4: to this one moment. And so when like our family
Speaker 4: comes in and when like all the contestants come back,
Speaker 4: it's like you can't really stop the emotions.
Speaker 3: It just it just flows through.
Speaker 1: Did you talk to PEZL last night? Did you get
Speaker 1: on the blower and find out how he was going?
Speaker 1: What was going on there?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Me? This is the thing that's amazing with men Peza.
Speaker 4: We have very like I wouldn't say blase, but we
Speaker 4: have such a good communication relationship where we just chat
Speaker 4: like for a second. We don't have to we don't
Speaker 4: have to like constantly be messaging each other and super nice,
Speaker 4: where like you know, the other contestants might need the
Speaker 4: validation constantly to be like, oh I've got your support
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah. But like men pees was so
Speaker 4: it was so chill.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good dynamic to have. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's something about the type of personality that wins this show,
Speaker 1: do you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, maybe that's that's the way in which you both
Speaker 1: can focus on maybe what's important and you know, taking
Speaker 1: the noise out from other people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, totally.
Speaker 4: And then it's you need it, Like I am the
Speaker 4: type of person who needs it as well. If I
Speaker 4: were to, if I had to give all my energy
Speaker 4: out constantly and work in hospital.
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be able to do it. Like, it's so hard.
Speaker 4: There's always a line that you can't. You don't on
Speaker 4: the cross when you're burning out socially because then you
Speaker 4: start losing relationships with your friends and your family, so
Speaker 4: like you have to really know how to balance it out.
Speaker 4: And I feel like, because Pezzant and I are customer
Speaker 4: facing people, we know how to do that, we know
Speaker 4: when to switch off.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 4: That's definitely why we got to the end for sure,
Speaker 4: Like just being able to focus and hyper focus as
Speaker 4: well and allow ourselves to have that time to I
Speaker 4: guess like rest and have peaceful moments.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about the fact that this season,
Speaker 1: right from the start, you were a fan favorite. No,
Speaker 1: I think everyone felt as though you were going to
Speaker 1: be in the finale. Like it didn't matter who I
Speaker 1: spoke to, people were like, oh, well, that's going to
Speaker 1: be in the finale. No one knew who that other
Speaker 1: person was going to be. I personally know Harry, I
Speaker 1: really did, But yeah, curious about your relationship with that
Speaker 1: whole process because everyone was talking about being you. Is
Speaker 1: it hard to sort of deflect people away, and what
Speaker 1: did you use as like a tactic to sort of
Speaker 1: throw people off.
Speaker 4: It's actually really interesting because I found it really hard
Speaker 4: because it was almost as if it discredited the hard
Speaker 4: work that went into coming up with dishes, and everyone
Speaker 4: thought I was so blusse about it, like like I
Speaker 4: wasn't you know, everyone's got imposter syndrome. But I was
Speaker 4: like every time people were telling me that I was
Speaker 4: a favorite or like the best out of everyone, I
Speaker 4: just never saw it as that. And that was really
Speaker 4: annoying sometimes where I guess when people could tell me that,
Speaker 4: it felt like I didn't have to try that hard
Speaker 4: in order to win these challenges, Like everyone be like, oh,
Speaker 4: you're miles ahead, and it's like it makes me feel
Speaker 4: like I'm like just naturally good at it, but in reality,
Speaker 4: like I studied quite a lot and like spending nights
Speaker 4: and nights ahead just like trying to draw up dishes
Speaker 4: and you know, I'm like dreaming about food. It's like
Speaker 4: taking up all my time. And yeah, I think it
Speaker 4: was really it was really hard from a pressure point
Speaker 4: of view. Is well hitting the first episode with such
Speaker 4: a like I just really hit in the nail there.
Speaker 4: I feel like that put pressure on me from everyone.
Speaker 4: It wasn't just from the judges, it was from like
Speaker 4: the contestants. And I then put really high expectations for myself,
Speaker 4: which you know, probably why I got so far and
Speaker 4: one horn entire competition. But there was moments where like
Speaker 4: I didn't know really you know when I.
Speaker 3: Did those two dishes, I did two dishes in one challenge.
Speaker 3: I tried to do two dishes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that that episode so many people like, why
Speaker 4: would you do that? It's so dumb, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: It's like, because when you hit a point, we have
Speaker 4: so much pressure on yourself, you kind of like where
Speaker 4: do I go from here? You just one dish became
Speaker 4: not enough. I was like, if I could nail one dish,
Speaker 4: I don't think that's gonna be good enough for ninety minutes,
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna have to try and do two. So
Speaker 4: it became such a like mental like push and pull
Speaker 4: with me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was hard.
Speaker 1: I wonder whether or not you said as many clocks
Speaker 1: in your real life as you did in that finale.
Speaker 1: Like I just kept watching you setting all of those clocks,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, that's a really smart.
Speaker 2: Thing to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure that everyone's sitting clocks in Master
Speaker 1: Chef all the time.
Speaker 2: We just don't see it as much. But is that
Speaker 2: something you do in Is that sort of.
Speaker 1: How methodical you are or how you control your time
Speaker 1: in real life?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So my best friend Bronti, she saw how I function
Speaker 4: when we were living together and she was so surprised,
Speaker 4: and even like my families as well will see it.
Speaker 4: I'm like organized chaos. Like my life is so chaotic ready.
Speaker 4: I love being impulsive, but there's so many parts of
Speaker 4: my life that needs to be quite strategic.
Speaker 3: And methodical for me to be able to do.
Speaker 4: The chaotic elements in my life. So I like my
Speaker 4: diary is like planned to the tea. I do keep
Speaker 4: timers everywhere, like I always on my phone. I've got
Speaker 4: alarms for everything, and like I tire myself to do things.
Speaker 3: And also it's something that.
Speaker 4: I developed with coffee as well, like we time our coffees.
Speaker 4: And I think a lot of people were like saying
Speaker 4: that it was it was so unfair that I was.
Speaker 4: So I guess like I worked like a chef essential
Speaker 4: but like if you guys saw the level.
Speaker 3: Of coffee that I would have to make.
Speaker 4: And again, I've been making it for so long, and
Speaker 4: I've been working at places where they're very very strict
Speaker 4: and cleanliness an organization. You would see where it comes from,
Speaker 4: because like we have to time every single thing, like
Speaker 4: even our teas. We time the brew time and our teas.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I just became really strategic with it. And
Speaker 4: again I do do it with my life, like when
Speaker 4: I wake up and if I have a lot of
Speaker 4: things on, I will start putting a timer on every
Speaker 4: single thing, like I have time in my car.
Speaker 1: I kind of expected that was the answer you were
Speaker 1: going to give me. Who was your biggest support? Out
Speaker 1: of the rest of the cast? This was a very
Speaker 1: dynamic cast, and I think that the friendship amongst all
Speaker 1: of you was quite palpable.
Speaker 2: We could see it. Yes, who was your biggest support?
Speaker 3: My biggest support was definite.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I could say one, but definitely
Speaker 4: Dash and David for sure, Like hands down, those two
Speaker 4: are the best people, Like I couldn't I could sit
Speaker 4: there and silent, I could. They were there when they
Speaker 4: need them, and I could just say it. I didn't
Speaker 4: have to, like you know, sugarcoat it. I didn't have
Speaker 4: to be like you know, it was there with the best.
Speaker 2: What was the hardest cook that you had to do?
Speaker 2: That's what I really want to know.
Speaker 4: The hardest cook was definitely the Hong Kong cook, like
Speaker 4: trying the mirror of the chef. I put so much
Speaker 4: pressure on myself because it felt to me like it
Speaker 4: was the best opportunity to really test my skill set
Speaker 4: and my memory and being in an outdoor environment, in
Speaker 4: such cold environment. And even though it was the hardest
Speaker 4: challenge I have done, it was also the best one
Speaker 4: and most pivotaal like moment.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what's the most bonkers thing you
Speaker 1: read about yourself online? Did you read anything while the
Speaker 1: show was playing.
Speaker 4: My brother and his partner loves loves reading the comments,
Speaker 4: and I do hear a lot of crazy stuff. The
Speaker 4: one that I think I get the most and is
Speaker 4: so funny and also kind of annoying, is that, like
Speaker 4: so many people are arguing where I'm actually from, like
Speaker 4: nationality wise.
Speaker 3: It's like it's such a.
Speaker 4: And it's so funny because that's what I talk about
Speaker 4: in my first episode. I'm talking about how I'm always
Speaker 4: torn between two cultures and like a lot of people
Speaker 4: commenting on like the fact that I'm Tie and they're like,
Speaker 4: Nut's definitely not Tie, and like, you know, other people
Speaker 4: will be like, oh, she's definitely not Australian.
Speaker 3: So would you say, I.
Speaker 2: Said, why is that important to these people? Seriously? It's
Speaker 2: so funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's like people try and like take terror people get
Speaker 4: territorial with their food. But it's like a lot of
Speaker 4: people would be like, oh, that's not even a proper
Speaker 4: this and this and this dish, and it's like always
Speaker 4: coming from Westerners. It's like you guys aren't even tie.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty wild. People are wild, you know.
Speaker 1: One thing I wanted to ask you about was like,
Speaker 1: if you could pick three people to return in an
Speaker 1: All Stars, because they do bring people back on Master Chef,
Speaker 1: could you just give me some names about people that
Speaker 1: you think could do with a do over that we're
Speaker 1: excellent this season, that could come back and possibly win
Speaker 1: it if they had a second time.
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely Dash and David.
Speaker 4: I know, I'm just saying that because it's of my
Speaker 4: favorites as well, but I readon they had break yeah,
Speaker 4: and Harry har Sure, Harry just had like he definitely
Speaker 4: had the guts to pull a win. But you know
Speaker 4: it's again, it's one cook at a time, and sometimes
Speaker 4: that's just not your cook.
Speaker 3: So I would like to see that.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm filling out my application to come to the
Speaker 1: alumni dinner at Crank Casino. I'm from Melbourne, so I
Speaker 1: look forward God, yes, being able to taste the food.
Speaker 1: I would love Master Chef in twenty years time where
Speaker 1: we have, you know, taste a vision where we could
Speaker 1: taste a long with everyone.
Speaker 2: That would be amazing.
Speaker 3: Sure, that would be so cool. That's a great idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a great idea television. You know, just
Speaker 1: to be able to smell some of that food you cooked.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got it.
Speaker 1: But what is something from behind the scenes, something that
Speaker 1: from your behind the scenes, something that we as an
Speaker 1: audience wouldn't know, but from your journey, something that the
Speaker 1: audience probably didn't get a chance to see.
Speaker 3: I guess like our hangouts in the green room.
Speaker 4: I love love of the moments just before we were
Speaker 4: about to go into a challenge, especially on an elimination day,
Speaker 4: we would ge ourselves up and you know, meet Dash
Speaker 4: David and I would like go and climb on this
Speaker 4: folding and we would be doing chin ups, we'd be
Speaker 4: doing like push ups, and we'd be blasting music.
Speaker 3: Even between tastings.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you would like it's like almost you're about to
Speaker 4: go for a run. You're just like geeing yourself up,
Speaker 4: like trying to manifest the fact that you've done well,
Speaker 4: and everyone's like supporting each other.
Speaker 3: And I used to make chatter boxes as well as.
Speaker 4: Ask Master Chef contestants really deep questions to like get
Speaker 4: them um, I guess, like distracted so that they don't
Speaker 4: have to think about food, because sometimes you're just so anxious.
Speaker 3: When you're waiting for a verdict. So it's niceting the
Speaker 3: call themselves out of that headspace for a bit.
Speaker 2: That's a podcast in itself. Net I think you just
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 4: I mean it's an everyone calls it the NAT questions,
Speaker 4: such a typical NAT question thing, Like when I'm asking
Speaker 4: something deep, everyone's like, oh, here's another NAT question.
Speaker 1: Now I am in your audience, And it has been an
Speaker 1: absolute joy watching you this season.
Speaker 3: Thank you question.
Speaker 1: We feel like the person who won is the right
Speaker 1: person who won. I know, that a lot of Australia
Speaker 1: is saying that today, and that is an amazing achieve
Speaker 1: considering that this season had some of the best contestants
Speaker 1: we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: So congratulations, thank you
Speaker 3: So much, thanks for having me.