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Gary Mehigan slams ‘copycat’ My Kitchen Rules

MasterChed judges contemplate changing their phrases after hearing them used too much by Seven's show.

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MasterChef Australia judge Gary Mehigan has slammed My Kitchen Rules as a copycat show.

“My Kitchen Rules is quite obviously a blatant rip-off and while it’s always nice to be emulated, in all honesty, I think they are doing very much what we do and I would like to see them be their own program,” he tells TV Week.

“MKR has really tried not to be too different,” he says.

“The set looks similar to ours and the phrases are the same. I ring Manu up every so often and tell him not to say ‘Your time is up, step away from your benches’ on his show because that’s ours!

“George and I have said to each other, ‘Ok, we can’t say that anymore, we’ve got to say something different.”

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  1. There’s a limit to the number of unique elements you can have in a cookery contest featuring the public judged by professional chefs. I watch and enjoy MKR and MC but, after the last series, have decided not to watch MC any more. First, I can’t stand the infantile way George and Gary try to exhort the contestants to even greater effort, the constant bull**it about “respecting” food, the juvenile wind-ups before the advertising breaks (every 5 minutes), and the revolting Coles jingle and ads. If anybody from Coles reads this, I’ve stopped shopping with you because of your association with MC and your moronic TV advertising. Guess what, Woolies is better! Also, MC is about two months too loooooong.

    MKR is much more informed, the right length, and much less precious about food. The reason, Pete Evans and Manu know what they’re talking about and care so much about what they do that they, shock horror, have the courage to disagree with each other. George and Gary should learn this elementary lesson about cookery. There are very few hard and fast rules, cookery is more to do with fashion than anything else. I bet these two still affirm that red wine is for meat and white wine for fish! And as for the belief that perfectly cooked meat should be raw in the middle, that’s a cop-out by guys who aren’t very good. Perfectly cooked meat should be at peak tenderness in the middle, with some cuts that is almost raw, but there is no rule governing this other than experience and, dare I say it, taste!

  2. If MKR was so bad and no admits to watching it …… how come it broke an Australian record last night with 2.2 million viewers?
    So let’s just wait and see how MC goes with it’s final.

  3. I wasn’t a dedicated viewer of MKR because I don’t like copycats. Of the few shows that I did watch I am amazed that Channel 7 have gotten away with such a mirror of Masterchef. Are they incapable of coming up with their own style of program?? I guess there is a small point of difference in that Manu and Pete Evans the two hosts are dead boring as compared to the personalities and obvious experience and abilities of George Matt and Gary on Masterchef.
    I hope that Channel 10 sues the pants of Channel 7 for this!

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