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MasterChef Australia season premiere: meet the new contestants – and prepare to cry – The Guardian
Supercharged with post-Covid sentimentality – and higher post-Covid stakes – Monday night’s return promises fresh faces, affecting stories and a lot of tears

Lovable tradies are braising huge chunks of meat and cheerfully quoting Shrek. A beautiful man cooks congee while crying and praising his Vietnamese mother. A cancer survivor is reclaiming her food dreams after regaining her sense of taste.
Everyone is crying and clapping and elbow-bumping. A middle-aged man is telling a stranger he loves them while another sweetie reassures a woman making some kind of dry ice dessert mushroom that shes a queen.
Yep, MasterChef is back! And its been supercharged…
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