MasterChef shock as Marion exits
MasterChef viewers were left spinning after the shock elimination of hot favourite, Marion Grasby.
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Hot favourite Marion Grasby has been shock elimination from MasterChef Australia, after failing to win over the judges during a tense satay sauce cook off which went down to deciding between her and Aaron.
The 27-year-old South Australian journalist was widely tipped to win the contest, proving time and again she had what it takes to deliver in the kitchen and win support of viewers.
Grasby had been up against Jonathan, Aaron and Adam after Wednesday’s group challenge failure, but Adam opted to use his immunity pin. After Jonathan succeeded a ‘Name that Nut’ test, Marion and Aaron faced off in a satay sauce cook-off. Ironically for Grasby, who has a Thai family background, her sauce was deemed to thick.
“Of course I’m disappointed, but when the judges told me I was out of the competition I had a great sense of calm,” she says.
“I make satay sauce all the time. I think it was the pressure of the situation, having 15 minutes to make the sauce and things sometimes just don’t work out.
“Everyone has a bad day in the kitchen and it was just my time to have a bad day. I have no regrets at all. I never took anything for granted and whenever I walked into the MasterChef kitchen I always treated it as though it was my last day, so it wasn‟t a shock for me, just disappointing.
“But since going home I have made plenty of satay sauces – and, yes, they are thick! In fact, I’m bringing out my own satay sauce in a range I’m working on now.
“My mum makes satay sauce all the time and I’ve made it loads of time too,” admits Marion. “I wanted a thick satay sauce but I was trying to get the right balance of trying to make a sauce the way my mum makes it, and getting the consistency right. But it was slightly too thick and didn’t stand up to Aaron’s sauce.
“I just feel so bad because I’ve had so much support from the public and the media,” she says. “Even though I’ve been eliminated, the show has given me the biggest opportunity of my life. I hope people have found inspiration in what I’ve done.”
With returning contestants Jimmy and Courtney still in the race ahead of Marion, along with the do or die taste tests, there are likely to be questions about levels of fairness
Grasby denies the pressure of being labeled by the public and the media as a favourite got to her in the end.
“We’re always under pressure, and it’s not because everyone says you’re the favourite,” she says.
“It comes down to the pressure that you put on yourself, and it’s a long time that you need to sustain that energy. I don’t think it was a case of pressure, I just had a bad day in the kitchen.
“People always said that I was the favourite, but I never felt that. I’m only human and I know that you can’t always be perfect.”
Grasby was recently named by media as the most likeable contestant with other competitors including Jonathan and Claire not proving popular with viewers.
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Same, I’m not interested in the rest of the season now. Their decision will be detrimental to the show, however minor. Don’t tell me a Marion cookbook wouldn’t sell loads more than a Jonathan cookbook.
@Jaye: the photoshoot Marion did for The Advertiser was done during her day off from competition. Since then (and before her elimination) she also did another photoshoot for The Daily Telegraph and Who magazine (with Claire and Courtney).
it took the 20 minute to start the challenge last night. why wait that long to start the challenge. this a reality tv show. not a reality cooking show. the english one is all about cooking. maybe the people that run this show should have a good hard look at the english show
The problem with Masterchef is that the best cook doesn’t necessarily win, as this shock exit demonstrates.
It wasn’t a shock to anyone in Adelaide who reads The Advertiser. They had a ‘Marion has a makeover’ photoshoot only a couple of days ago. If Marion was still on the show, how could she do the photoshoot??
She’s a great cook but it’s good to see the competition blown wide open. No one likes to watch a one -horse race.
Worst decision ever! They talk and talk about the best cook winning then eliminate them. Why should arron get to stay in an elimination when he sucks at cooking and marion doesnt and she rules? He should have gone last week. Her satay sauce didnt look as good but i would have just said to arron ” man her satay sauce wasnt as good but she kicks your ass at everything else and you suck so were keeping her in. lol
In before people who say “This is rigged because they know we don’t believe that it’s reality and they’re trying to trick us!” who are the same people that had she not been kicked off would be saying “It’s so rigged they want the one people like to win to sell books!”
so gutted she is out, she was such a joy to watch!
such a shame a sauce brought her undone!
none of them hold my interest, i find the remaining contestants more annoying than anything else.
I wish masterchef would have an audience vote, we’d have saved her!
It was shocking to see Marion eliminated, but purely by the look of both the satay sauces, her’s didn’t look very appealing at all!
I really like Aaron (I know he’s not very popular), he’s self depricating and doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously.
The biggest twist last night was that the competition has really opened up. Until last night, it was difficult to imagine anyone winner except Marion. Hopefully this will make for a more interesting final!
Not interested in Masterchef anymore. When’s My Kitchen Rules start?? When it’s a competition decided by judges not Australia voting, you expect the best to win. They backed down last week with deciding not to vote off the two worst contestants still left Aaron and Jimmy. The only thing Jimmy can make is curry, and Aaron has never been a solid performer, yet they’re still there. It’s ridiculous. I’m not angry just because my favourite’s out, i’ve got other favourites, but i want to see the best, and when they eliminate the best contestant while saving the two worst a week before i feel conned by the show, and i’m not interested anymore. They did it to shock people and get bigger ratings. Well they’re 1 down with me.
Suddenly less interested in this show now. It’s not about “the best cook” at all, it involves a great deal of luck. I really don’t care who wins out of who’s left now.
Sooooo disappointing. She has been great fun to watch.
It was what it was – Aaron (somehow) managed to create a better satay than marion. It just looked so so much better and actually appetising . I also think she kinda choked.
But seriously – a “name that nut” challenge???? I didn’t like how a previously 30 minute elimination episode got bumped up to a 60 minute episode.
So….an Alvin / Courtney – Jonathan – Adam final looms….unless the next rubbish elimination challenge (like what, guess the weight of a cut of meat??) takes out them out.
This show has been a joke since it started this year. Marion is a good cook and deserves to be in the final. The thing I can’t stand is the amount of advertising, but what I really really hate is the histrionics of the Judges. They shout like a bunch of wackos at a footy match. George actually said one night “Advance Australia Food” Seriously. Why so much gingoism/machizmo? It’s a testosterone overload. I get about half way through each episode and honestly have to stop watching or I’ll throw the TV over the balcony. I enjoy the food, hate the competition!
While it’s a shame she’s gone, I’m happy now that Jonathon is the favourite to win this. Love Jonathon, not sure why he is so unpopular.
somethinmg here with this elimination and i hinestly think it’s 10 trying too get more viewers rather than actuall nputting best chef forward and it had nothing to do with her having a bad dish, it had everything to with 10 wanting the show too a shock reality show than making the best person win it. she was clearly the best chef in that lot. i can’t for the life of me understand how a sook and dodgy bloke still stay in the comp. jonno and callum have stuffed up that much you think they would be out by now
Finally, all the conspiracy theories about the show being rigged can be tossed out the window. Obviously, it isn’t. Aaron won fair and square last night. His sauce looked sensational, whereas Marion’s looked like mushed up Weet-Bix. She simply blew it when it mattered most, nerves got the better of her. What viewers need to understand is that in the Elimination round cook-offs, the judges do not take past form in the show into account, which is as it should be if the show is to be a proper, impartial contest. Marion may have blitzed the show week after week, but it means nothing once it comes to an elimination round, it is what they serve up during the round that determines whether they stay. I have had a really strong feeling all season that a male was going to win this year, and i think my hunch may be right.
Unbelievable!!!!
Sorry to see Marion go but she’ll do well. I’m surprised the judges didn’t rig the taste test to keep the most popular contestant. At least they’ve kept with the integrity of the judging.
devastated and confused
how aaron and jimmy both survived that ridiculous coq au van challenge last week is beyond me.
aaron has cooked maybe two good dishes this entire competition.
Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
Very disapointed at this point. The competition is a single winner not a team so at this point they should be competing individually. How a contestant that has repeatedly demonstrated that they can not even cream butter & suger is still in the competition astounds me.
Bugger, i liked Marion.
Callum has to go, he has dodged bullets for weeks now !
absolute joke. i have unseries linked and will not be watching the rest of the season when ppl like jimmy callum and aaron are all there. they are all so unlikeable.