Anna Gare joins as Junior MasterChef judge
MasterChef finds its feminine side as TV chef Anna Gare is announced as a judge on Junior MasterChef.
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A year after deciding its female host wasn’t needed for Celebrity MasterChef, TEN announces TV chef Anna Gare will be a judge on Junior MasterChef.
Gare is best known for the popular cooking series The Best of Australia and Quickies in My Kitchen on the LifeStyle Food Channel. She also managed Perth catering company Deluxe Catering with Food by Anna Gare.
She joins George Calombaris, Gary Mehigan and Matt Preston as a judge / mentor, with all 3 returning for Junior MasterChef.
“I’m thrilled and excited to be going onto such a hugely popular program. I’ve seen some of the junior kitchen superstars in action and there is some really amazing talent there! I can’t wait to get started,” she said.
Over 5,000 children from around the country applied to be on the series with 50 young cooks aged 8 -12yrs set to participate.
The junior version in the UK proved very successful and Shine Australia says the talent here is already staggering.
The series will air later this year.
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Will she be snacking on crackers during the show, like she does during the add breaks? More blatant produt placement.
Donna Hay might have been one to expect artwork on a plate and somehting she could take a photo of. They might be impressive if they make A Mr. Potato head [George style], A sweet thing for Gary [he likes them], and a chocolate cravat for Matt. [An edible outfit]!
Hopefully Anna can replace the horrible Donna Hay as soon as possible as well.
I love children but I couldn’t eat a whole one.
Can’t wait for this! Kids battling it out in the great play-dough mix challeng, the mud pie bake off. Mark me down as one viewer that will be career-crushingly blunt in my reviews.
I agree Bobby, If they don’t give the audience a rest then everyone will be sick of MC by the time MC series 3 comes around they’ll be “what went wrong?”
I love masterchef.
But between this and celebrity MC this may just kill the brand.
Oh yeah and i hate children
I love the show but have to say the last series went downhill.
“Richard W says:
July 12, 2010 at 8:34 am
Wow I thought for sure that they were buttering up Donna Hay for this role.”
Yeah I thought that as well, given that Donna Hay has a kids cooking magazine.
Junion MC has occured in UK
i hope junior MC bombs..i love the origional..but kids cooking …no thanks – will give this a wide berth
god they are gunna kill this show.
Wow I thought for sure that they were buttering up Donna Hay for this role.
Do you think this is an attempt to lighten the tone of the show? I can’t see her being overly melodramatic and getting involved in the histrionics the other’s use.
She’s a great choice.