To catch up on all things MasterChef Australia 2020, make sure you che ck out our MasterChef hub. We’ve got you completely covered.
MasterChef Australia is an anomaly.
In the world of reality TV,While other shows bank on drama - manufactured or genuine - MasterChef takes the opposite approach. It's a show where the food is the focus and contestants help each other. It's bloody wholesome.
Things I say while watching MasterChef. Post continues below video.
So it came as a shock when homophobic comments, written by contestant Reynold Poernomo on an internet thread in 2014, resurfaced in the media in May.
The words were written not long before he first appeared on our TV screens, as the young but immensely talented 20-year-old "dessert king" on MasterChef Australia's seventh season in 2015.
Reynold publicly apologised soon after the comments emerged, saying he was ashamed of his words and regretted them immensely.
"At the time these comments were made, I was a very immature, close-minded and insular 20-year-old," he said.
"I've grown and matured a lot in the last six years. I'm not the person I was back then."