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TEN launches MasterChef Australia second season

TEN launched its second season of MasterChef Australia to media in Sydney last night, with Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris.

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TEN launched its second season of MasterChef Australia to media in Sydney last night, with Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan (on crutches) and George Calombaris.

Also in attendance were Julie Goodwin, Justine Schofield and Chris Badenoch plus TEN personalities including Shannan Ponton, Michelle Bridges, Matt Lee, Bonnie Lythgoe and Jason Coleman and celebrity chefs Donna Hay, Luke Mangan, Kylie Kwong and Tony Bilson. 2009 Runner-up Poh Ling Yeow was unable to attend due to illness.

As tipped by TV Tonight, there are 50 contestants kicking off the series:

New South Wales: 14
Victoria: 14
South Australia: 10
Queensland: 6
Western Australia: 4
Tasmania: 2

Coles, Campbell’s, Fonterra, Handee Ultra and Sunbeam had bought sponsorships believed to cost between $2.5m and $3m each.

“The calibre of the contestants this season is outstanding and the challenges, which kick off in Top 50 week, are impressive,” Calombaris told News Limited.

“They (the contestants) will need to conquer challenges put to them by Matt Moran and Donna Hay, in order to make it through to the Top 24.

“The other judges and I were really proud of series one but are even more proud of series two.”

Gary Mehigan told Fairfax newspapers, “The joke is that is that it’s like a follow-up album,”

“When you have such a successful show first time around people are expecting great things.

“We’ve made every effort to make sure we’ve taken it up a notch, every challenge seems to get harder and harder.

“And when they’re about to go into it, I go ‘Oh my goodness are you sure they’re going to be able to do this’.”

TEN Chief Programming Officer recently told Mediaweek, Seven’s imitation series My Kitchen Rules was the sincerest form of flattery.

“When you look at My Kitchen Rules there is no question they have done a good job of it. When you look at their show and look at MasterChef though it’s like having a short stay at the Coogee Bay backpackers and then moving into the Park Hyatt,” he said.

“People will soon realise that MasterChef is the real cooking show.”

The series will premiere in April.

Source: Daily Telegraph, The Age, Mediaweek The Australian

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  4. I dont understand why it matters what State contestants come from in reality tv programs.

    A great personality matters and i dont think a particular State of origin has any bearing on that…

  5. and the winner has already been chosen. This time it will be a white male, probably single parent with 3 kids and lives in the western suburbs of (insert city here)

  7. Well Victoria sounds good competition. I mean QLD has only six and I assume the MKR winners will want some QLD winners here. But then again it could be Mossy from NSW that wants some NSW winners?

  8. The advertisement is highly annoying (much like reality TV). Which of Ten’s current bucket’s of cr@p will this thing take over from for far to many hours a week?

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