Australia’s most passionate home cooks will be welcoming viewers into their homes to share their food creations on the new season of My Kitchen Rules, premiering at 7:30 pm on Monday, September 4 on Channel 7 and 7plus.
Celebrity Chefs Manu Feildel and Colin Fassnidge join forces as co-hosts, judges and good mates as they travel across the country to meet Australia’s most passionate home cooks – real people, cooking real food, in their own homes, for the chance to be crowned MKR Champions and take home a $100,000 cash prize.
Joining Manu and Colin this season is international food superstar Nigella Lawson. Nigella returns to judge finals week at Kitchen HQ where the qualifying teams will compete in a high-pressure cook-off.
Speaking on Mediaweek and Chattr’s The Entertainment Hotline Podcast, Colin Fassnidge admitted that the series “had lost its way” halfway through its run and he was now ready to bring back the “fun”.
“When it first started, when I started on MKR, it was so much fun,” he said. “And then a little bit in the middle, it sort of lost its way because it got a bit drama and people, even my kids, didn’t want to watch that and Australia didn’t obviously want to watch that either because they said it. And now they’ve sort of come back the last few years, [and now] it’s about heart.”
In addition to this, Fassnidge said that Aussies weren’t keen on just hearing people complain.
“I don’t want to sit around the table with people complaining, I’ve got that at home,” he said. “I’ve got that with my teenagers. So when I’m away, I want to have fun.”
This year, Fassnidge joins Manu Feildel as a “top dog” (as he likes to refer to it), with the pair deciding to rejuvenate the show to bring back the joy.
“I think me and Manu directed it that way, that’s what we want. If you’re here for your 15 minutes of fame, or if you’re here to be grumpy, we don’t want to talk to you… so we’re back to basics on this one.”
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MKR is produced by ITV Studios Australia for the Seven Network.
The new season of MKR premieres at 7:30 pm on Monday, September 4 on Channel 7 and 7plus.