MasterChef 2011: Top 24
MasterChef's Top 24 includes a fighter pilot, a nursing student, a professional life guard, a full time mum of three and a 61 year old teacher.
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MasterChef Australia now has its Top 24 contestants for 2011.
Twelve more were selected during last night’e episode.
The group includes a fighter pilot, a 20 year old nursing student, a professional life guard from Sydney’s
Northern Beaches, a full time mum of three and a 61 year old teacher, who is the oldest contestant ever to
make it into the Top 24.
The Top 24 are:
Hayden Quinn, 24, professional lifeguard from Sydney.
Kate Bracks, 36, stay-at-home mum from Orange, NSW.
Craig Young, 43, professional musician from Brisbane.
Cleo Kerameas, 45, executive assistant from Sydney
Adam Bowen, 31, scuba diving instructor from Brisban.e.
Michael Weldon, 25, film projectionist from Adelaide.
Kumar Pereira, 61, Teacher from Sydney, NSW.
Arena Dunn, 24, Personal Trainer from Perth, WA.
Seamus Ashley, 32, Graphic Designer from Melbourne, VIC.
Alana Lowes, 30, Journalist/Actress from Brisbane, QLD.
Danielle Dixon, 29, Administration Manager from Brisbane, QLD.
Billy Law, 34, Food blogger from the Central Coast, NSW.
Andrew, 37, Youth Worker from Port Lincoln, SA.
Shannon Smyth from Qld.
Peter Vickery from NSW.
Paul Lombardi, 50, Account Manager, NSW.
Rachel McSweeney,44, Office Administrator, from WA.
Dani Venn from Vic.
Tom Rutledge, Wine Manager from NSW.
Sun Etheridge, 32, Credit Analyst, from Qld.
Jay Huxley, 31, Car Sales Manager from NSW.
Ellie Paxton Hall from Qld.
Mat Beyer, Food blogger from Vic.
Chelsea Fammartino from Vic.
Tonight they enter the MasterChef Kitchen and get set for a spicy trip.
The team challenges this season include a 24 hour endurance test to cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for 450 miners in a remote Outback gold mine, a BBQ on one of Australia’s most iconic beaches and cooking for some of the most acclaimed – and fearsome – chefs in the world.
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18 Responses
Chelsea looked like a model last night, heavily made up and those a….s, were prominent, but you can already see who will go long into the comp, and unfortunately like Australian Idol, it is now slowly becoming stale, probably one more series left in the franchise
@ Bwth….
Masterchef Australia – Alex In The Top 24 As Paul Lombardi Pulls Out
Apparently the pilot was re assigned….
The MasterChef Australia 2011 Victory Tournament (round of 24) has begun! Get ready for over six realtime months of cooking action and product placement orgies compressed into about…15-16 ratings weeks over 6 episodes a week!
PS. I still think Poh deserved to win Series One. The judges didn’t want her to win because Poh was Asian (are the Masterchef judges racially biased?).
And Adam Liaw winning puts an end to that question.
Far out….
It’s a cooking competition…It’s about cooking, personalities and Entertaining people!
Not looks or how big someones assets are…
Can’t people just watch a show and not objectify women (Or men in some cases)
I was sad that John and Alex didn’t get in 🙁
Chelsea has two major assets!!! she will go deep in the competition, wait and see
They always have to have a sexy female & male, it’s required.
Of course had to have the sexy female…..
Chelsea by the way
alana and ellie are the babes of the group. not stunning and fiona and sharnee from last year. but still hot
Of course had to have the sexy female…..
Am so upset that alex didnt make it in… i have liked him since the very first ep 🙁
I was hoping John would get into the top 24 but sadly he didnt looking forward to the rest of the MC season
Missed it last night cos went out for Mothers Day dinner, but man am i annoyed John and Nick didn’t get through.
Sad that John and Nick didn’t get through 🙁
Thank god no unsatisfied-with-their-jobs-lawyers. Were they banned this year?
Great to see two food bloggers representing! Go Billy and Mat!
I still don’t belive half of these chefs are amature. The dishes are far too impressive for this early in the series.
Could not see this fighter pilot in the list, and it intrigued me to know who he was, so I went on a search. it is actually Paul Lombardi (33 from Perth WA) mislisted