Angus and Simon had big talk during the second round of My Kitchen Rules, but failed to live up to their words.
They narrowly avoided the same fate as Jane and Shane, scraping through to Kitchen HQ by just one point.
With Zoe and Zac still to cook, Alisha and Deanne sit at the bottom of the leaderboard on 54 points, while Angus and Simon are safe for now.
Despite being served a dose of reality in the kitchen, the Adelaide best mates tell New Idea they have no regrets because it was all part of their game plan.
“We don’t have any regrets because if we were mild and friendly and then cooked like rubbish, I think it’d be even more embarrassing,” Angus tells us.
While Simon explains, “You always go out and try to put your best foot forward, and it doesn’t always come off.
“It’s like baseball: you swing hard just in case you hit it, and when you hit it it’s a home run.
“Unfortunately, we didn’t get the connection we were looking for, but that’s okay because we can always keep trying.”
Simon and Angus themselves said Jane and Shane’s downfall was overconfidence, but they certainly talked a big game in round two.
They didn’t shy away from slamming pescatarian Zoe and questioning whether Oliver’s tears were genuine, but they aren’t taking anything back.
“We came in with something to prove, and we just didn’t really need gatecrashers coming in there and being like, we’re going to rule the roost,” Angus says of their brash antics.
“It’s like, well, no, like we’re here first. We know what we’re doing.
“That doesn’t mean that you don’t, but you’re not going to sort of dictate it to us like how things are gonna be.”
As for Oliver’s crying, Angus doubled down on his accusation that he was looking for a “sympathy” vote, adding, “A tear or two is absolutely fine from an upstanding gentleman like Oliver, but I think too many, it’s going to lose its lustre there. If you want to cry in the grand final, but come on.”
The pair confess they had a game plan to make the gatecrasher teams uncomfortable, and they’d hoped to form an “OG” alliance, though that didn’t pan out for them.
“We thought if we could be a little bit brash and make it hard for people and then cook amazing food, we could be a big threat to the competition,” Angus admits.
They said they were well aware that only one team had to go home each round and were determined it wouldn’t be them.
“All the other five teams can do however they like. It’s just that you can’t be the worst,” Angus adds.
What has happened with Angus and Simon on MKR?
Angus and Simon were dubbed the new MKR villains after their brutal comments towards the gatecrasher teams.
Last week, Angus brutally described Harrison and Oliver as the “rip-off, reject […] worst versions of us” and criticised them for catering to Zoe’s dietary needs.
Speaking to New Idea before the controversial scenes aired, Angus and Simon admitted that some of the other teams didn’t understand their sense of humour.
“We sat in the tension a fair bit, but then once it got a bit too tense, we’d usually break it up with a joke, you know, because it does get very tense and there’s huge clashes,” Simon told us.
“We can be part of that as well, but then we always still disarm people by making a joke after it. That was our way to go.”
Clearly, they haven’t been shy about getting involved in the drama, describing themselves as “straight up” people who will always share their thoughts.
“Angus and I are so straight up honest, earnest, fun and friendly, that there’s no wiggle room for us,” Simon explained.
“So if people are just going to be shooting us down or having a crack about something, we’re just going to hash it out then and there and be like, ‘You said this, this is what we’re thinking. This is what we bring to the table. If you’ve got a problem with that, that’s kind of your problem’.”
While they might have rubbed some people the wrong way, Angus and Simon got on best with Krysten and Lucy because the mother and daughter understood their humour.
The “hyper-competitive” duo might have found themselves at the centre of clashes in recent episodes, but they insisted everyone has a “go at each other”, adding, “It’s like sport.”
They might be comfortable being the outspoken ones at the table now, but they admitted they were surprised by how quickly tensions rose.
“The competition started from the first second,” Simon said.
“I thought there was going to be a grace period or a time when it was all happy families. But it was pretty quickly like, I don’t think we’re just going to.”
They insisted they were the “friendliest” in their critiques at the beginning of the competition, hinting there could be even more brutal feedback to come.
But one thing is clear: they have no regrets.
“We loved [MKR],” Angus gushed.
“We couldn’t have had much more fun if we tried. We had the most fun of any team.
“But there were definitely times where people weren’t having fun.”
