They were the undisputed queens of spice on this season of My Kitchen Rules and on Tuesday night, they took home the crown.
In an interview with Fairfax, the sisters detailed the agonising wait to find out whether or not they had won. The show wrapped filming late in 2015 but the duo only found out they were victorious along with the rest of us on Tuesday night.
Listen to former winners Dan and Steph tell Rosie Waterland and Laura Brodnik EVERYTHING about how it really feels to film a fake ending for MKR, and what you do when you’re waiting months to find out if you’ve won $250,000. Post continues after audio…
That’s right. For those loyal MKR devotees hanging off every high, low and fragment of emotion exposed on the show, many perhaps found the sisters’ underwhelming reaction to the win a little disproportionate to their achievement.
But they had good reason. Two good reasons in fact, for that was the number of finales the producers filmed in order to keep the winner of the series well and truly under wraps.
Their five-course tour of South East Asia had the judges and their fellow contestants licking the plate. The highlight of each delectable dish? The sauce.
Judge Colin Fassnidge was quick to suggest that the sister’s could turn their talent for toppings into a business enterprise, so it comes as no great surprise that they are well on the way to releasing their own brand of sauces.
They began developing the product as soon as filming for the show wrapped, and Tasia told Fairfax they are planning on cashing in on the post-show hype, releasing their line in the coming weeks. “We’re just finishing up logos and going over the website,” she said.
We wonder if they’ve been able to agree on their designs. Post continues after video…
Tasia and Gracia will market their product under their own names and have said their will be a mortar and pestle on the logo, “and maybe a couple of chillis”. They told WHO they plan on beginning with a range of satays and expanding from there. Yum.
If developing your own line of condiments isn’t enough, the sisters also have future plans to open a restaurant. It’s not on the cards just yet, as Tasia explains they are still in the early stages of market research.
They’re also being frugal with their $250,000 winnings. “We’re going to put the prize money towards what we both want,” she told Fairfax. Other than a well-deserved holiday and food-tour of Japan (reconnais-sauce, anyone?) they’ve truly got their eyes on the prize and say they will “try not to spend it except on our dream.”
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Umm this was known after the previous MKR finale. The same deal happened where they filmed 2 finales. Turned me right off.
Why can't they do a live telecast on the night and reveal it then? To them and the whole country?
I wouldn't be able to fake happiness at possibly winning the money either. How ridiculous.
But the whole show is fake. Why does it only bother you that the end isn't real?
Oh noes! You mean something on MKR wasn't as it seemed?!?! But, but, but, that means the people who were interviewed on Sunrise "the day after"
they get booted off the show... were actually booted off months and months
and months ago. And to think I actually wept real tears of grief for them in their moments of despair.
Is it really a secret, though, that the endings of these shows are filmed this way? I remember that cat being let out of the bag on "The One", that ridiculous Channel 7 show where people pretended to be real psychics by making wild-arsed, and usually wrong, guesses about a bunch of stuff.
What's really bizarre about these "reality" shows is that people tweet comments to a show that finished last year - like their thoughts matter...to anyone.