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If you’ve been following along with My Kitchen Rules this year, you’d know that almost every episode has been filled with some major feud, fall-out, or shock twist and turn.
While fans thought Jane and Shane’s villain edit would be as bad as it would get, it turns out producers had a lot more in store for the rest of the series. From the non-stop conversations about Zoe’s pescatarian diet to Angus and Simon’s major behaviour shift, it’s hard to count how many gripes fans have formed this season (and how many “I won’t be watching next year” comments I’ve read on social media threads).
“I’m really not sure how long MKR can survive after this – it really doesn’t make any sense,” one fan commented on social media after Krysten and Lucy, Tiffany and Giancarlo’s elimination.
Despite viewers turning against them, Simon and Angus confessed to WHO that they knew they were losing friends on the show, yet they continued their strategy anyway.
Speaking to WHO about the drama, Zoe and Zac revealed the “saving grace” that helped them survive the show’s most intense moments, and why contestants may have been acting nastier than usual this year.
“Obviously, there was $100,000 up for grabs,” Zoe said. “I think people were just a little bit different to how they would normally be… I hope.”
Zoe wasn’t alone in this prediction.
Fans divided over reasoning for ‘nasty’ behaviour on MKR
Just as Angus and Simon were losing friends on the show, they’re also losing quite a few fans watching along too.
“I hope Simon and Angus get those smirks wiped right off their faces,” one viewer wrote online. “They are just plain nasty… I can’t stand them! God, I hope they get knocked out soon. I’m happy for any of the other teams to win as long as it’s not them!”
“What happened tonight between Team Zoe and Zac and Team Tiffany and Giancarlo was immoral and un-Australian,” another fan chimed in. “I will never watch another series after what Simon did tonight. He is just in it for money, NO MORALS.”
As more users claimed that teams like Angus and Simon “ruin the show”, other fans pointed out that there could be other forces at play pushing them to behave in this way.
“Every game player uses strategy; $100k is a pretty big incentive,” one fan commented, siding with Zoe’s comment that money can change people’s behaviour.
“I think they are all playing roles under instructions from the producers,” another suggested. “It’s pretty obvious.”
Scripted or not, fans are not happy with the direction of the show and aren’t sure whether the series can survive this controversy.
How did Zac and Zoe survive the drama?
However, even if there were influences working behind the scenes, there were still teams that didn’t give in to the drama.
As Simon and Angus heckled from the balcony, or time management went out the window as things got stressful in the kitchen, Zoe and Zac were proud to have kept each other calm through every storm.
“One of our favourite things about Kitchen HQ was being able to experience it together,” Zac told WHO. “We’ve been friends for so long that we know exactly how to push each other’s buttons, but we also know how to pull each other back together when things get stressful.
“There were plenty of moments where we’d be having a laugh in the middle of what was otherwise a pretty intense environment. I think that was our saving grace.
“We could have easily let the pressure and contestant dynamics get to us, but having each other made such a difference.”
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