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Jimmy, Peter & Courtney return to MasterChef

Some of the Top 7 remaining MasterChef contestants weren't too happy with eliminated contestants returning. Who can blame them?

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Previously eliminated contestants Peter Kritikides, Courtney Roulston and Jimmy Seervai last night were reinstated to MasterChef Australia.

The three beat Phillip Vakos, Jake Bujayer and Devon Headland for the three places on offer.

The seven who had remained in the competition became their judges, tasting their dishes blind. But a taste of a curry dish from Jimmy soon made them suspicious. Their fears were realised when the six entered the room.

Some of the Top 7 were clearly unhappy with the move. Aaron struggled to look pleased. Claire admitte to mixed feelings.

“I don’t think anybody wanted to believe it was going to happen,” she said.

But George Calombaris reminded them that Julie Goodwin had welcomed eliminated contestants enthusiastically.

He neglected to mention one of them was Poh Ling Yeow who defeated those remaining.

Earlier this year My Kitchen Rules surprised its contestants with a second team of cooks who battled them to the end.

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  1. They should have said to Adel, Carrie and Fiona, just have a go or for fun, but you will be exempt from returning, as you have chosen to continue with your path. Joanne, the same, but I couldn’t imagine if she came back only days after leaving! It’s fair whom they chose, I have to say I was inkling for Courtney. Peter was one I thought was out, I read somewhere Phillip was in? They must have played me for a fool! Jimmy was one I didn’t aspire to see inside. He might just try and win with curry and spic! That’s not really showing your talent is it? They want you to invent and be creative, but if you keep it in the curry and spice area, you might have a hard time getting up to where the others are?

  2. Great… another way to extend the amount of weeks MasterChef is on air. I suppose in another month or so, they will randomly introduce another set of contestants, much like Big Brother did ey? Week 1 there were 16 contestants, Week 20, there are 22, only on Channel 10 can a TV show have more contestants 5 months after it started….

  3. Survivor did do it in Pearl Islands, but it went down like a sack of bricks, the producers have since vowed to never do it again.

    This benefits only 2 groups: the eliminated 3 (of course) and the producers, who get an extra 2-3 weeks of the show (which is the real reason they’re doing it again. They need this show to go as long as it can). It doesn’t benefit the other contestants and the general reaction from the public is negative so I can’t say it benefits us. It shouldn’t be done.

  4. @DavidH yes i also wished skye had got back in she might have had a chance if it wasnt for that bloody sauce i also wanted jake to get back in as well but he didnt eathier

  5. We saw this coming. No big shock there. Naturally the “final 7” would have been peeved about the 3 coming back. Who wouldn’t be? I think the 7 are more than entitled to be narky about it.

    Although – having seen last years season, they should have expected something along the lines of this.

    I think they brought back the contestants in a fair way, rather than the judges simply picking who’d come back like last season. I’d have liked sky to have come back over Jimmy. I agree with a lot of others, he seems to be a one trick pony with his currys.

    My money remains with a Johnathan-Marion-Adam in the top 3. I just hope they leave out the cr@p elimination rounds (name the herb etc).

  9. @Jason D. Actually Survivor Pearl Islands did bring back eliminated contestants. Just before the merge with 2 tribes each having 5 players remaining, 6 voted-off players returned as a third outcast tribe, with 2 of them ultimately being voted in by the ‘Outcasts’ to return to the game. One made it to F5 while the other all the way to F2, losing to Sandra – winner of S20 H vs V.

  10. I think this is a much fairer way to put people back into the competition. There were some people like Courtney, who were eliminated in the worst possible way (adding spear to the correct mint answer) so we get to find out if they are now truly worthy. I’m just curious how they are going to do the rapid eliminations because I know the show can’t go for another 4-5 weeks. Or can it?

  13. Really had hoped Skye got one of those spots. I think the “twist” was more that the remaining contestants would be choosing which eliminated contestant would return. I don’t understand how any of the contestants couldn’t have seen it coming, they did it last year.

  15. Claire told the Herald Sun yesterday that watching past contestants return to the MasterChef kitchen was like “falling down a snake” in a game of snakes and ladders, but added if she had been eliminated she would have given both her arms and both her legs to get back into the competition.

  16. this wasn’t really a big twist. seeing that thney did the same thing last year and they will more than likely do it next year as well. a more interesting twist and a better twist would have been. if they had brought back someone that didn’t make it into the top 24

  18. I’m a fan of MC, but the last two episodes have been boring and predictable & I don’t think any of the final 7 were happy to have the 3 reinstated. Aaron looked totally pinged off.
    Ch 10 you are dragging MC out the same way as Idol and Dance.

  19. I didn’t think it was a good decision to bring back already eliminated contestants, when the non-eliminated contestants worked hard to remain. It was more of a flimsy twist, rather than a shocking twist which was the intention. How bad it would be to bring back eliminated contestants during the Amazing Race or Survivor. It’s like that pathetic intruders twist in Big Brother, it means everything before was done in vain.

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