MasterChef Australia: Top 24
A hairdresser, dentist, bar tender, model and inflight manager -MasterChef picks its Top 24.
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MasterChef Australia has selected its Top 24 contestants for 2014.
They include a hairdresser, law student, dentist, kids’ wear designer, winemaker, social media manager, bar tender, model and inflight manager.
They range in age from 18 – 55 and the state split is as follows:
Victoria: 6
Queensland: 5
Western Australia: 4
South Australia: 4
New South Wales: 3
ACT: 1
NT: 1
This year’s contestants will compete for $250,000 cash, a Hardie Grant cookbook publishing deal, work experience in some of Australia’s best kitchens and an Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
Update:
Top 24 contestant Cecilia Vuong was absent and the judges made the shock announcement that Cecilia was unable to continue in the competition.
Gary Mehigan addressed the contestants on behalf of the judges: “As you know, Cecilia is recovering from a brain injury. We received expert medical advice instructing us that it is not in her best interest to continue in the competition.
“Cecilia is a brilliant cook and we all hope we see her next year in this competition.”
Stepping up to take the coveted spot in the Top 24 is Georgia Hughes, 18, from South Australia.
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7 Responses
MCA must not know that Tassie is state of Australia.
Hopefully people will see how a real cooking show should be without all the bitching & backstabbing of MKR. Good for you MCA
Master chef has been fantastic so far soooooo much better than last year
I’m loving it so far, I agree that I’d back to the good old days! I’m a little disappointed that those two girls kept mentioning they met at the Adelaide Auditions and have been through the whole thing together, blar blar… but we didn’t get to see any of that. It seems like an odd story line to leave in, if the viewer wasn’t part of it.
they could have just had a package showing how those top 50 got there and I would have been happy.
One criticism: a few of the people in the Top 24 have had barely any airtime yet, we really only have seen a lot of a few people – Byron, Nick, Ben, Emily, Sarah, Amy, Renae.
Presumably some of the others will get a bigger part to play in the show in coming weeks.
Overall, MC seems improved from last year’s debacle, good signs so far.
It’s always nice to see the mix of races and ages on this show. The one thing that always stuck with me about MCA was when they had Amina on. You go from shows like ACA and TT constantly bashing on minorities and here you have everyone brought together by the same passion, void of bitching and judgement.
Yes, it’s just a silly cooking competition, and maybe I’ve got my rose coloured glasses on today.. but it’s a nice change from the casting on some other shows.
The show was good as always
Strange thing is that it rekindles back to the first series
There’s no overt product advertisment placements, the show is very food focused, the co hosts are releaxed and likeable.