Network Ten has announced a shake-up to the judges’ line-up on the hit TV show MasterChef Australia after the sudden death of Jock Zonfrillo.
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Former contestant Poh Ling Yeow will join the panel with food writer Melissa Leong departing.
Andy Allen, who won the MasterChef title in 2012, will remain as a judge in 2024, and will be joined by Ling Yeow, who was the runner-up on the show’s first season in 2010, French Michelin-starred chef Jean-Christophe Novelli and the food writer Sofia Levin.
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Zonfrillo died in April this year at the age of 46, having joined the show with Allen and Leong when the show’s original judges, Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston, all left after a pay dispute.
Leong will be embarking on a new venture.
She is set to co-host a cooking reality show titled Dessert Masters with pastry chef Amaury Guichon.
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