In a tight reality TV race against Channel 9’s Married at First Sight and Channel 10’s Survivor, My Kitchen Rules is losing out.
Channel 7’s annual cooking show is now in its 11th season, however, it looks like it’s running out of steam.
A week in, their Tuesday night episode only drew in 402,000 metro viewers. A similar episode from 2017 attracted 789,000 viewers. In comparison, Married at Sight pulled in 1,109,000 views and Australian Survivor: All Stars, 612,000.
Speaking to KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O, judge Colin Fassnidge is blaming a 2018 scandal in which MKR contestants Sonya Mefaddi and Hadil Faiza were “excused” from the show after bullying claims were made.
Watch the moment Sonya and Hadil get kicked off of My Kitchen Rules. Post continues below.
“I think we’re getting crucified for a little incident a couple of years ago with Sonya and Hadil – remember they got kicked out of the show?” he said.
“And the drama went through the roof and a lot of people got turned off. About two years ago I really did not like what we were doing. But this one, I stand behind.”
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As past contestant of the show participating in the year in question, I think it's outrageous to blame the show demise on Sonya and Hadil. Considering they fell victim to being the bullies of the show engineered by MKRs production team and leading to the filmed ousting of Sonya and Hadil. There was an oppportunity to kick those girls out of the show over an alleged incident that happened off camera and it did not have to be filmed and televised. The bottom line is Channel 7 made their bed and now they have to lay in it. Colin Fasnidge is so rightoues to blame Chanel 7 producers when he was one of the biggest racist bullies of them all, and now he is clutching at straws trying to blame the people who gave him the spotlight, what a coward.
I totaly support, your comment davide!! Colling was a racist and bully. The was so oneside and singled out sonya and hadil. The drama that went on behind the scence was ridiculous and no 2 people are to blame!! The toxic environment we had to work in to meet the shows expectation was discusting. I wish all the cast of new and old seasons good luck.
Bit of a stretch to blame a two-year-old 'scandal' and 'bad programming', isn't it? You can watch it online these days, any time you like. If people aren't doing that, perhaps it's more the quality of the show that's the issue?
Plus people can watch shows that, are, actually about the food and cooking on SBS. MKR forgot what it was about
Exactly. Even when they did focus on the food, it was more about the 'drama' in the kitchen than what was going on the plate.
I know you like the SBS Flyer - I assume you watch The Cook and the Chef?
I love the different ways they approach ingredients.
Great show