MasterChef Australia (2009–…): Season 2, Episode 10 - Elimination Challenge 1 - full transcript
Last night on
MasterChef Australia.
We wanna give you
a reality check.
It was sink or swim as two teams took
over two restaurants.
It's showtime.
And while Alvin led the red team
to victory and a reward...
Go and have lunch
at Glass restaurant, enjoy that.
Devon and Jonathan failed
to deliver for the blue team.
I'm really, really disappointed.
My heart drops.
Tonight, they both battle it out
in the fight of their lives.
The two of you now face
the first elimination challenge.
Together, they'll face
three rounds.
The first contestant who gets
two points, wins.
Each will be a test of their
culinary skills and knowledge.
Obviously I'm feeling the pressure.
It's gonna be tough.
And for one of them, the MasterChef
journey will end.
I'm feeling absolutely sick
watching these two.
I'd be devastated if I was
eliminated in the first week.
Devon, Jonathan, you're about
to face an elimination round.
Jonathan, I think in this case
it had to be you
because we gave you
plenty of opportunity
to make the right choices
on behalf of the team.
The question is, have you bitten
off more than you can chew?
I just... I just would have liked to have
led the team to victory.
Devon, bringing those customers in early
one hour before the kitchen was even ready
to serve the food.
It's a cardinal sin.
Good afternoon, can I offer you
to a seat to perhaps sit down
and get a drink?
Because once you seat
people down,
regardless of whether they tell you
they're gonna be happy,
they never are.
Because when they get their food,
they have been waiting two hours.
It always turns out badly.
I'll take that.
Blue team, head upstairs,
the lot of you,
and Jonathan and Devon,
we'll see you back here shortly.
We leave the kitchen and we head up
to the caf� to have a bit of a chat.
You worried about the elimination
challenge?
Yeah.
I'd be devastated if I was
eliminated in the first week.
For the last ten years, food has
been everything for me.
My favorite foods to cook
are definitely desserts.
I'm an IT management consultant.
I think I'm pretty good at my job,
but it's not my passion.
When I'm standing in the kitchen,
I'm in my element.
I'm dreaming, and I'm just... I'm just
cooking. I love it.
I'm sure we're both good, it's not good
that one of us has to... be leaving.
- Yeah.
- That's the ultimate thing.
Ever since I was a kid, I knew
I loved food.
I'm a residential builder. I've been doing
this since I left school.
I'm really happy that I did it, it's a
fantastic trade,
but I really need to change.
My heart's with food.
I was happy that the red team won.
I was sad for the blue team,
but I just wanna get as far away
from there as possible
and get to that lunch at Glass.
We're off to a reward lunch
to Luke Mangan's restaurant.
It's a dream come true.
We walk around the corner and then
Luke Mangan's at the end of the table.
Hi guys, welcome,
welcome to Glass.
Congratulations on your
challenge win.
Today I'm gonna cook for you
a beautiful menu.
Sit down and
enjoy lunch.
Thank you!
Cheers!
The lamb is cooked beautifully.
The taste just melts
in your mouth.
There's just so many flavors on the plate.
It's wonderful. It really is just great.
The dessert is probably the best
thing I've eaten in my life.
It was a liquorice parfait with like
a lime sauce and lime segments
and the texture of it is...
like silk.
Alright guys, how was that?
Good.
If you all jump up, I'll show
you how to make the liquorice.
We all just looked at each other
and going, is he serious?
We're gonna learn how to make
the dessert.
So what do we do? The first
steps, we're gonna make a sabayon.
- Who's gonna help me?
- Yeah, I got to be Luke's sous-chef.
- You're gonna start whisking that.
- Getting to cook with Luke Mangan
it's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
We'll mix the liquorice cream in with
the cold sabayon.
So they need to be the same temperature.
Don't have a hot sabayon and whisk
cold cream into it,
cause it will split.
Then it goes straight into the freezer.
I just fine that this lime really cuts
through the richness of that liquorice.
And there is our
liquorice parfait.
Lunch is over, we've had
a beautiful afternoon together
but the whole time we were thinking
about the blue team and talking about
who might be facing
the chopping block.
Jonathan and I go downstairs by the judges
for the elimination challenge.
As we get downstairs, we see
two long benches
and there are six cloches
on each bench.
I'm very aware that I led my
team to defeat.
And now I've got to fight one of them
to stay in the contest.
It makes me feel pretty bad.
Jonathan, Devon, unfortunately,
the two of you let your team down.
The two of you now face the first
elimination challenge of the series.
We're standing up in the gallery,
we can see six covered bowls
but we have no idea
what's under there.
You can see the anxiety,
you know, it's a game of survival and it's a
battle to the death between these two guys.
So this is how the elimination
challenge will work.
You're gonna face three
rounds of basic skills tests.
There's one point up for grabs
in each round.
The first contestants that gets
two points, wins.
Being straight up in the first elimination
against a great cook like Jonathan,
it's gonna be tough.
Jonathan, Devon, let's get
into it.
Take your spots behind
the bench.
I'm really glad I'm not
down there.
But at the same time I'm feeling absolutely
sick watching these two face off.
Jonathan, Devon, there's a common theme
in each round of this elimination challenge.
And the common theme is
eggs.
They form the basis to
a great kitchen,
we use them to aerate,
to emulsify,
to clarify, we use them for
so many things.
This is how round one will work.
Under each one of those cloches
is a different kind of egg.
All you have to do is write down
the bird
from which each of those eggs
comes from.
I can't even think of six birds.
I was like,
what lays eggs.
This is a sudden death playoff.
It's a penalty shootout.
If you get the answer wrong,
you lose this round
and you hand that point
to your opponent.
Anything the two of you
want to say to each other?
- Good luck, mate.
- Good luck.
On my count,
00:09:00,675 --> 00:09:01,682
00:09:01,882 --> 00:09:04,061
00:09:07,777 --> 00:09:13,767
Write down what bird you think
that first egg is from.
Please reveal your answers,
and name that egg.
- Chicken.
- Chicken.
I'm more relieved that Devon's holding
chicken as well,
because then I knew that we're either both
wrong or we were both right.
Well, you'll be please to know,
you are both right.
Good job.
Devon, Jonathan, you can reveal
the second egg now.
Devon, Jonathan, let's name
the second egg.
- Quail.
- Quail.
Gentlemen, that egg under
the second cloche
belongs to a
quail.
Guys, well done, you've named
two eggs. On to the third.
How hard can it be?
Reveal the third egg
now.
I lift the third cloche,
and it's a big green egg.
I just looked at it, thinking,
ostrich, emu.
Ostrich, emu.
You're always told that you have to
go with your gut feeling.
Your first gut feeling
is generally right.
I can see that boys are writing
different answers down
and obviously that's a concern
because in your mind you're thinking
one's right and one's wrong.
Gentlemen, please reveal
your answers.
- Emu.
- Ostrich.
Well.
What I can tell you, is one of you
is correct.
The third egg belongs to
We finally hold up our cards.
I'm holding emu,
and Devon's holding
ostrich.
The third egg belongs to
an emu.
Jonathan, you named the third egg
emu and that is correct.
That means, you win
this round.
Winning the first skills test is
hitting me harder than I expected.
I just can't bear the thought I'm
pushing Devon out of this competition.
- You okay, mate?
- Yeah, yeah.
I led my team to defeat, now I've got to
knock one of my guys out.
I can't do it.
They're both here because they're
passionate about their food dreams.
They're in a position now where
all of that is gonna slip away
if they don't nail it.
- Good, man.
- So that's definitely weighing on them.
At the end of round one, Jonathan,
you collect that first crucial point.
Well done.
So gentlemen, on to
the next challenge.
You have a bowl of eggs in front of you,
you have to separate those eggs perfectly.
Yolks and whites.
The challenge in round two is to
whip those egg whites
into perfect firm peaks.
The person who whips those egg whites
to those perfect peaks first,
and can hold the bowl upside down
for ten seconds,
wins the round.
Whisking skills. An absolute
essential.
Cause when you whisk by hand,
you truly understand the result
that you're looking for.
Put it on the machine, you don't really
feel, you don't really truly understand
the technique.
Let's not forget this is the best
of three rounds.
Jonathan, you alrady have one point,
so that means if you score another point,
you'll be the winner.
Devon, unfortunately,
you need to win this round. You need
to win it to keep your dream alive
in this competition.
Right, boys. Your time starts
now.
My first egg I crack. And I just
throw the whole thing in.
Obviously I'm feeling the pressure.
So I place that one aside.
I go again.
By this time I think Jono is on
the second or third egg white
so I'm behind again.
I was probably at around 300 grams
which is what I had to get to,
and then I dropped a yolk in there.
Jonathan is extremely fast at
separating the eggs,
but he gets a whole yolk
into its whites,
so that really sets him back.
I thought I can scoop the yolk
out or I can start again.
I knew the safest option
was to start again.
Come on, guys!
Come on.
And so I think I cracked the yolks in an
unbelievable speed just to catch up.
But in the end they almost reached
that 300 gram mark at the same time,
that's how quickly Jonathan
does it.
When I started whisking
I think something kicked in,
like, I better whisk to stay
in this competition.
I did. Till my arm nearly
fell off.
When they start whisking, I've never
seen anything like it.
He's quicker than my kitchen aid.
I need Jonathan in my kitchen
just for whisking.
He was just
a machine.
All I can hear is Jonathan's whisk
going ten to the dozen.
The trick is, if you underbeat them,
they'll fall out.
If you overbeat them, they separate,
become watery and they'll also fall out.
So, it's a fine line.
Yup.
Time starts now.
One,
two...
George starts the stopwatch,
and I thought,
I've got this.
I'm there.
Any second those egg whites could
fall out so
I just hope for his sake that they don't
hit the floor or he has to start again.
You can see the anxiety on the two guys,
so you really want to speed up,
you just sort of wanna like, if you're
gonna do this, let's get it over.
Five, six, seven,
eight...
Oh my God!
Yup.
Time starts now.
One...
Jonathan's already saved one point,
if Jonathan wins this round,
Devon will be knocked out
of the competition.
Three, four,
five, six,
seven, eight,
nine, ten.
You win.
- Well done, Jonathan. Well done.
- Well done, mate.
Well done, mate.
No mate, well done.
Good stuff, mate.
The realization that the first elimination
has just taken place.
We're all gutted. We're physically
and emotionally exhausted,
you realize how tough this competition
really is. And how brutal.
Devon, how does it feel to be
leaving the competition so early in?
Yeah, pretty gutted.
It's been an amazing journey for you
though, if you think about it,
got into the top 24 amateur cooks
in the country.
I'm blown away, I mean.
Even getting through
the auditions.
What's the biggest thing you've
learned in this kitchen?
When we were under the pump
in the team challenge,
I took a moment.
I was shaking. The adrenaline
is just pumping through me.
And I asked myself the question, can I
do this? Is this what I wanna do?
And every part of me said yes.
It's good. We love that feeling.
It's what it's all about.
Jonathan, is there anything
you wanna tell Devon?
I may have won the challenge but
we've lost a good man.
Not only from our team
but also from this competition.
- You've been great, mate.
- Thanks, buddy.
I reckon Australia's never seen so
many grown men crying, let's go, mate.
Devon.
Thanks for being part of
the MasterChef crew.
- Thank you.
- We wish you the very best of luck.
Thank you very much.
- Thank you.
Well done.
See you later, mate.
Good luck.
It's hard to get my head
around the fact that
I have been the first eliminated
from this competition.
It's been a hell of a ride.
I've learned so much,
made great friends,
and it's really stoked up the fire inside
me to keep going.
I knew I love food, but this has
really confirmed how much I do,
so that's what I gotta thank
MasterChef for.
Sitting back at our house after
a beautiful lunch we've had,
it really does hit home that someone
was gonna be going home.
There are a lot of people in the blue
team, that if they're not there,
it will be like a knife in the chest.
There she is.
The blue team started filing down,
they were all looking really distraught,
flat, shattered.
I saw their faces kind of change from,
hey, everyone's here,
to the reality that someone's left.
All of the sudden, you know, I see,
Jonathan come down,
and he's in tears.
- Oh my God.
Then I look around and I'm like,
where the hell's Devon?
I wonder whether the other team
would have preferred if
Devon walked into the house
rather than me, I wonder whether...
I don't know.
I wonder a lot.
Probably too much.
To see Jonathan, you know,
a man, cry like that, just,
it's heart-wrenching.
Heart-wrenching.
Devon was definitely one of the
most loved people in here,
he had a lot of time for everyone,
and he's definitely gonna be missed.
- Don't blame yourself.
- I know.
It's such a short period of time
the group's come together
and bonded so well. And I think
I've got to toughen up to some extent.
I guess the next time I just make sure
that I'm nowhere near an elimination.
It makes you realize that it is
a competition and it's not all about
being in the house with fun people
and learning how to cook.
It is tough, it is about
making tough decisions,
and if you don't have the stuff to do it,
then you're really not gonna survive here.
Coming home's
bittersweet,
but it's time to take the good things
out of the competition and go with it.
It's fantastic to come home, and to
see my beautiful partner and
give her a big hug.
- I'm proud of what he's done so...
- Yeah.
- It's good.
- Thanks, mate.
Tomorrow night on
MasterChef Australia.
Welcome to
MasterClass.
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her traditional Sunday roast
and to reveal a few
family secrets.
- Gary used to climb a tree?
- No. It wouldn't take his weight.
And the feast continues.
- What we're gonna do,
is share a few Italian secrets from
a Greek guy and from an English guy.
As Gary and George serve up
tasty and simple bruschetta,
lasagna with a twist, and a sumptuous
dessert using peaches.
I'm in heaven.
- Plus...
- Here you are in the heart of Little Asia.
Award-winning chef Luke Nguyen puts
his spin on two classic Vietnamese dishes.
It's just beautiful.
MasterChef Australia.
We wanna give you
a reality check.
It was sink or swim as two teams took
over two restaurants.
It's showtime.
And while Alvin led the red team
to victory and a reward...
Go and have lunch
at Glass restaurant, enjoy that.
Devon and Jonathan failed
to deliver for the blue team.
I'm really, really disappointed.
My heart drops.
Tonight, they both battle it out
in the fight of their lives.
The two of you now face
the first elimination challenge.
Together, they'll face
three rounds.
The first contestant who gets
two points, wins.
Each will be a test of their
culinary skills and knowledge.
Obviously I'm feeling the pressure.
It's gonna be tough.
And for one of them, the MasterChef
journey will end.
I'm feeling absolutely sick
watching these two.
I'd be devastated if I was
eliminated in the first week.
Devon, Jonathan, you're about
to face an elimination round.
Jonathan, I think in this case
it had to be you
because we gave you
plenty of opportunity
to make the right choices
on behalf of the team.
The question is, have you bitten
off more than you can chew?
I just... I just would have liked to have
led the team to victory.
Devon, bringing those customers in early
one hour before the kitchen was even ready
to serve the food.
It's a cardinal sin.
Good afternoon, can I offer you
to a seat to perhaps sit down
and get a drink?
Because once you seat
people down,
regardless of whether they tell you
they're gonna be happy,
they never are.
Because when they get their food,
they have been waiting two hours.
It always turns out badly.
I'll take that.
Blue team, head upstairs,
the lot of you,
and Jonathan and Devon,
we'll see you back here shortly.
We leave the kitchen and we head up
to the caf� to have a bit of a chat.
You worried about the elimination
challenge?
Yeah.
I'd be devastated if I was
eliminated in the first week.
For the last ten years, food has
been everything for me.
My favorite foods to cook
are definitely desserts.
I'm an IT management consultant.
I think I'm pretty good at my job,
but it's not my passion.
When I'm standing in the kitchen,
I'm in my element.
I'm dreaming, and I'm just... I'm just
cooking. I love it.
I'm sure we're both good, it's not good
that one of us has to... be leaving.
- Yeah.
- That's the ultimate thing.
Ever since I was a kid, I knew
I loved food.
I'm a residential builder. I've been doing
this since I left school.
I'm really happy that I did it, it's a
fantastic trade,
but I really need to change.
My heart's with food.
I was happy that the red team won.
I was sad for the blue team,
but I just wanna get as far away
from there as possible
and get to that lunch at Glass.
We're off to a reward lunch
to Luke Mangan's restaurant.
It's a dream come true.
We walk around the corner and then
Luke Mangan's at the end of the table.
Hi guys, welcome,
welcome to Glass.
Congratulations on your
challenge win.
Today I'm gonna cook for you
a beautiful menu.
Sit down and
enjoy lunch.
Thank you!
Cheers!
The lamb is cooked beautifully.
The taste just melts
in your mouth.
There's just so many flavors on the plate.
It's wonderful. It really is just great.
The dessert is probably the best
thing I've eaten in my life.
It was a liquorice parfait with like
a lime sauce and lime segments
and the texture of it is...
like silk.
Alright guys, how was that?
Good.
If you all jump up, I'll show
you how to make the liquorice.
We all just looked at each other
and going, is he serious?
We're gonna learn how to make
the dessert.
So what do we do? The first
steps, we're gonna make a sabayon.
- Who's gonna help me?
- Yeah, I got to be Luke's sous-chef.
- You're gonna start whisking that.
- Getting to cook with Luke Mangan
it's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
We'll mix the liquorice cream in with
the cold sabayon.
So they need to be the same temperature.
Don't have a hot sabayon and whisk
cold cream into it,
cause it will split.
Then it goes straight into the freezer.
I just fine that this lime really cuts
through the richness of that liquorice.
And there is our
liquorice parfait.
Lunch is over, we've had
a beautiful afternoon together
but the whole time we were thinking
about the blue team and talking about
who might be facing
the chopping block.
Jonathan and I go downstairs by the judges
for the elimination challenge.
As we get downstairs, we see
two long benches
and there are six cloches
on each bench.
I'm very aware that I led my
team to defeat.
And now I've got to fight one of them
to stay in the contest.
It makes me feel pretty bad.
Jonathan, Devon, unfortunately,
the two of you let your team down.
The two of you now face the first
elimination challenge of the series.
We're standing up in the gallery,
we can see six covered bowls
but we have no idea
what's under there.
You can see the anxiety,
you know, it's a game of survival and it's a
battle to the death between these two guys.
So this is how the elimination
challenge will work.
You're gonna face three
rounds of basic skills tests.
There's one point up for grabs
in each round.
The first contestants that gets
two points, wins.
Being straight up in the first elimination
against a great cook like Jonathan,
it's gonna be tough.
Jonathan, Devon, let's get
into it.
Take your spots behind
the bench.
I'm really glad I'm not
down there.
But at the same time I'm feeling absolutely
sick watching these two face off.
Jonathan, Devon, there's a common theme
in each round of this elimination challenge.
And the common theme is
eggs.
They form the basis to
a great kitchen,
we use them to aerate,
to emulsify,
to clarify, we use them for
so many things.
This is how round one will work.
Under each one of those cloches
is a different kind of egg.
All you have to do is write down
the bird
from which each of those eggs
comes from.
I can't even think of six birds.
I was like,
what lays eggs.
This is a sudden death playoff.
It's a penalty shootout.
If you get the answer wrong,
you lose this round
and you hand that point
to your opponent.
Anything the two of you
want to say to each other?
- Good luck, mate.
- Good luck.
On my count,
00:09:00,675 --> 00:09:01,682
00:09:01,882 --> 00:09:04,061
00:09:07,777 --> 00:09:13,767
Write down what bird you think
that first egg is from.
Please reveal your answers,
and name that egg.
- Chicken.
- Chicken.
I'm more relieved that Devon's holding
chicken as well,
because then I knew that we're either both
wrong or we were both right.
Well, you'll be please to know,
you are both right.
Good job.
Devon, Jonathan, you can reveal
the second egg now.
Devon, Jonathan, let's name
the second egg.
- Quail.
- Quail.
Gentlemen, that egg under
the second cloche
belongs to a
quail.
Guys, well done, you've named
two eggs. On to the third.
How hard can it be?
Reveal the third egg
now.
I lift the third cloche,
and it's a big green egg.
I just looked at it, thinking,
ostrich, emu.
Ostrich, emu.
You're always told that you have to
go with your gut feeling.
Your first gut feeling
is generally right.
I can see that boys are writing
different answers down
and obviously that's a concern
because in your mind you're thinking
one's right and one's wrong.
Gentlemen, please reveal
your answers.
- Emu.
- Ostrich.
Well.
What I can tell you, is one of you
is correct.
The third egg belongs to
We finally hold up our cards.
I'm holding emu,
and Devon's holding
ostrich.
The third egg belongs to
an emu.
Jonathan, you named the third egg
emu and that is correct.
That means, you win
this round.
Winning the first skills test is
hitting me harder than I expected.
I just can't bear the thought I'm
pushing Devon out of this competition.
- You okay, mate?
- Yeah, yeah.
I led my team to defeat, now I've got to
knock one of my guys out.
I can't do it.
They're both here because they're
passionate about their food dreams.
They're in a position now where
all of that is gonna slip away
if they don't nail it.
- Good, man.
- So that's definitely weighing on them.
At the end of round one, Jonathan,
you collect that first crucial point.
Well done.
So gentlemen, on to
the next challenge.
You have a bowl of eggs in front of you,
you have to separate those eggs perfectly.
Yolks and whites.
The challenge in round two is to
whip those egg whites
into perfect firm peaks.
The person who whips those egg whites
to those perfect peaks first,
and can hold the bowl upside down
for ten seconds,
wins the round.
Whisking skills. An absolute
essential.
Cause when you whisk by hand,
you truly understand the result
that you're looking for.
Put it on the machine, you don't really
feel, you don't really truly understand
the technique.
Let's not forget this is the best
of three rounds.
Jonathan, you alrady have one point,
so that means if you score another point,
you'll be the winner.
Devon, unfortunately,
you need to win this round. You need
to win it to keep your dream alive
in this competition.
Right, boys. Your time starts
now.
My first egg I crack. And I just
throw the whole thing in.
Obviously I'm feeling the pressure.
So I place that one aside.
I go again.
By this time I think Jono is on
the second or third egg white
so I'm behind again.
I was probably at around 300 grams
which is what I had to get to,
and then I dropped a yolk in there.
Jonathan is extremely fast at
separating the eggs,
but he gets a whole yolk
into its whites,
so that really sets him back.
I thought I can scoop the yolk
out or I can start again.
I knew the safest option
was to start again.
Come on, guys!
Come on.
And so I think I cracked the yolks in an
unbelievable speed just to catch up.
But in the end they almost reached
that 300 gram mark at the same time,
that's how quickly Jonathan
does it.
When I started whisking
I think something kicked in,
like, I better whisk to stay
in this competition.
I did. Till my arm nearly
fell off.
When they start whisking, I've never
seen anything like it.
He's quicker than my kitchen aid.
I need Jonathan in my kitchen
just for whisking.
He was just
a machine.
All I can hear is Jonathan's whisk
going ten to the dozen.
The trick is, if you underbeat them,
they'll fall out.
If you overbeat them, they separate,
become watery and they'll also fall out.
So, it's a fine line.
Yup.
Time starts now.
One,
two...
George starts the stopwatch,
and I thought,
I've got this.
I'm there.
Any second those egg whites could
fall out so
I just hope for his sake that they don't
hit the floor or he has to start again.
You can see the anxiety on the two guys,
so you really want to speed up,
you just sort of wanna like, if you're
gonna do this, let's get it over.
Five, six, seven,
eight...
Oh my God!
Yup.
Time starts now.
One...
Jonathan's already saved one point,
if Jonathan wins this round,
Devon will be knocked out
of the competition.
Three, four,
five, six,
seven, eight,
nine, ten.
You win.
- Well done, Jonathan. Well done.
- Well done, mate.
Well done, mate.
No mate, well done.
Good stuff, mate.
The realization that the first elimination
has just taken place.
We're all gutted. We're physically
and emotionally exhausted,
you realize how tough this competition
really is. And how brutal.
Devon, how does it feel to be
leaving the competition so early in?
Yeah, pretty gutted.
It's been an amazing journey for you
though, if you think about it,
got into the top 24 amateur cooks
in the country.
I'm blown away, I mean.
Even getting through
the auditions.
What's the biggest thing you've
learned in this kitchen?
When we were under the pump
in the team challenge,
I took a moment.
I was shaking. The adrenaline
is just pumping through me.
And I asked myself the question, can I
do this? Is this what I wanna do?
And every part of me said yes.
It's good. We love that feeling.
It's what it's all about.
Jonathan, is there anything
you wanna tell Devon?
I may have won the challenge but
we've lost a good man.
Not only from our team
but also from this competition.
- You've been great, mate.
- Thanks, buddy.
I reckon Australia's never seen so
many grown men crying, let's go, mate.
Devon.
Thanks for being part of
the MasterChef crew.
- Thank you.
- We wish you the very best of luck.
Thank you very much.
- Thank you.
Well done.
See you later, mate.
Good luck.
It's hard to get my head
around the fact that
I have been the first eliminated
from this competition.
It's been a hell of a ride.
I've learned so much,
made great friends,
and it's really stoked up the fire inside
me to keep going.
I knew I love food, but this has
really confirmed how much I do,
so that's what I gotta thank
MasterChef for.
Sitting back at our house after
a beautiful lunch we've had,
it really does hit home that someone
was gonna be going home.
There are a lot of people in the blue
team, that if they're not there,
it will be like a knife in the chest.
There she is.
The blue team started filing down,
they were all looking really distraught,
flat, shattered.
I saw their faces kind of change from,
hey, everyone's here,
to the reality that someone's left.
All of the sudden, you know, I see,
Jonathan come down,
and he's in tears.
- Oh my God.
Then I look around and I'm like,
where the hell's Devon?
I wonder whether the other team
would have preferred if
Devon walked into the house
rather than me, I wonder whether...
I don't know.
I wonder a lot.
Probably too much.
To see Jonathan, you know,
a man, cry like that, just,
it's heart-wrenching.
Heart-wrenching.
Devon was definitely one of the
most loved people in here,
he had a lot of time for everyone,
and he's definitely gonna be missed.
- Don't blame yourself.
- I know.
It's such a short period of time
the group's come together
and bonded so well. And I think
I've got to toughen up to some extent.
I guess the next time I just make sure
that I'm nowhere near an elimination.
It makes you realize that it is
a competition and it's not all about
being in the house with fun people
and learning how to cook.
It is tough, it is about
making tough decisions,
and if you don't have the stuff to do it,
then you're really not gonna survive here.
Coming home's
bittersweet,
but it's time to take the good things
out of the competition and go with it.
It's fantastic to come home, and to
see my beautiful partner and
give her a big hug.
- I'm proud of what he's done so...
- Yeah.
- It's good.
- Thanks, mate.
Tomorrow night on
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