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One fan called out the so-called curse early, saying it had "been a thing for years" while another tweeted the "green apron curse lives on".
According to the Daily Mail's trawl through the MasterChef archives, there are numerous alarming correlations with team losses while wearing the 'cursed' green apron...
With 2012 a particularly bad year for the greens, while the blues never lost a challenge, and this season, in mid May Abbey led the green team to a pressure challenge after a woeful attempt at a dessert, the 'Middle Eastern Delight'.
Will the 'curse' ever be broken?
