Judge Andy Allen has quickly earned the title as this season’s MasterChef ‘tough judge’. But is the former contestant’s intense dish critiques actually just staged?
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Speaking to New Idea, contestant Khanh Ong admitted he and his fellow contenders found it suspicious Andy, 32, was “always the one” who consistently received a problematic dish.
“He’s the one that finds things in everything. Andy is always the one that finds a bone on his plate. Or finds a poop shoot in a prawn or says that something has grit in it,” Khanh, 28, explained, adding contestants were worried.
Judge Andy Allen has quickly earned the title as this season’s MasterChef ‘tough judge’.
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“At one point we were all like, ‘Is he just putting bones in our dishes?!’. He was the only one finding fish bones or grit,” he added.