Comments on: Masterchef Australia – You Can No Longer Be Fast Tracked Through To The Final Week

By: badnews

badnews — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:18:55 +0000

It is a shame I agree salsateacher, but why else does a 40-something man choose a 20-something girl? She hasn’t lived yet and he fills her up with stories of success (when in truth from what I see above that is all rubbish) and makes her feel like she’s a woman and tells her that by helping recipe test etc etc that it will help her career too.
He then feels good ‘cos a young chick with long legs pashes him in public.
It’s the tragic timeless tale. She is even aware that he sleeps around and is ignoring it ‘cos she’s scared of losing ‘everything’ (whatever that is).
My source was reliable too, its all very sad

By: salsateacher

salsateacher — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:21:38 +0000

Badnews, Julia must be working somewhere as I can’t imagine that ‘working on Chris’s book’ would be paying the bills for both of them (or very satisfying). If this is true it is a shame, as I can’t imagine that she would get a great deal of satisfaction out of doing all the grunt work on someone elses cookbook when she had the ability to do her own and make a name for herself in her own right.

By: badnews

badnews — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:41:39 +0000

the sad truth is salsateacher there is nothing to know about Julia other than her love life. She is still seeing chris, with him 24/7 and has been working with him on his book and doing anything he wants her to do. She has lost confidence and has ruined her chances of anything much at all through her association with him. That’s what I’ve been told at least.

By: salsateacher

salsateacher — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:07:45 +0000

We don’t seem to hear anything about Julia anymore (other than her love life zzzzzzz) Does anyone know what she is up to? Is she currently working in a restaurant? She showed great promise /talent from what I saw, and must have gained incredible experiance while working under Peter Evans. At such a young age, I hope she gets to take full advantage of the opportunities that this show would have opened up for her. There are still too many male dominated kitchens around, and a talented female is a bonus in any kitchen.

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:12:59 +0000

Waiting for payment
Sorry to hear he ripped you off.
My point is that I dont know of what he has done so i cant comment on it.
What i did see on a heavily edited tv show was that he had a real passion for cooking, unlike some of the pretenders who only seemed to want a chance to get on TV. Anyhoo, if it will make you happy i promise not to mention his name again!

By: waiting for payment

waiting for payment — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:31:47 +0000

chris’s private life (or shocking business dealings) have left a whole lot of people out of pocket. It’s extremely insensitive of you to say you care nothing about it when you don’t understand the full impact that his lies and shortcuts have affected people, many people.
Please be careful what you say, there are many people waiting to talk to him and he knows EXACTLY what it’s about

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:07:28 +0000

Injera
your last para. isn’t that exactly what the imPOHstor did?
I know nor care nothing about chris B’s private life/shenanigans, but you can’t fault his passion for food and experimentation!

By: Injera

Injera — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:36:18 +0000

The truly blind taste testing is a fabulous idea. There is absolutely no reason for it not to happen.

Agree with both Sourkraut and CG on the need for at least one female judge. Would it hurt for them to take a leaf from Runway’s book and separate the mentor role from the judge role? Gary and George could be the instructor/mentors and Matt and some newbies could be the judges – that way it goes even further towards fairness.

I actually hope they continue with what seems to be a flexible contract system – it shows good faith on the part of the network that they want passionate, invested food people and have no need to restrict contestants’ pursuit of their dreams if they don’t win (and, speaking of “pursuing dreams”, I guess we all just have to accept that Julie’s dream was to spruik plastic crap and go on holidays…). They would, however, need to cast so that they weren’t just inundated with people willing to do anything – fake a food passion, perhaps? – just for their 15 minutes.

By: CG

CG — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:11:21 +0000

Ha! Good points, Sourkraut. I’m sure MC producers / staff are reading this and hopefully they will be making some of these other changes for Season 2. Most important ones in my mind are (i) a female judge; (ii) truly blind tasting; and (iii) no second chances during auditions / seductresses. And the fact the Im-POH-ster went on to star on ABC will probably also result in changes to contestant contracts with Ch10/Fremantle. Ha!

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:56:26 +0000

Injera
I can’t argue with that!
Still many aspects of the show need improving to suck me in every night for 6 months again.
some changes reqd are:
need a/ or more than 1 female judge
need TRUE blind tasting of the dishes(not having contestants waddle out with their burnt offerings thus enabling the jedges to display their biasses)
need a screen system to cut out actresses from contestants
need more ethnic food to be part of the contest
need a better ethnic variety of contestants
need to stop the show being rigged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO second chances for actresses or seductresses!
Need the jedges to STOP pushing raw food
need to take away the bias against ” a slab of meat”
etc
etc
etc