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The drama certainly took over the cooking this week on My Kitchen Rules as two Kitchen HQ elimination challenges saw some of the competition’s strongest teams sent home.
Mother-daughter duo Krysten and Lucy and loved-up couple Tiffany and Giancarlo were knocked out during Kitchen HQ, devastating fans watching at home.
Following their tearful exits, fans flooded social media with claims that the competition is “rigged” and that favouritism and “strategic scoring” are ruining what the cooking show should be about.
Both Krysten and Lucy and Tiffany and Giancarlo told WHO that they agreed with this sentiment, with the mother-daughter duo admitting that “if you were using strategy, it would be a good idea to get rid of a strong team [like them]” and the lovebirds confessing that their “cooking ability made [them] a threat”.
Krysten also added that their lack of drama and chaos in the kitchen probably could have contributed to them being “booted” sooner rather than later, siding with fan theories that ratings and production input have a major impact on the season’s results.
Fans mourn direction My Kitchen Rules has taken
While a bit of drama never hurt anybody, viewers are more disappointed with how the constant feuds on the show have led to “dishonest” scoring and shocking eliminations.
“This year has been awful, I always loved MKR but, nup, it’s like The Block, only cooking,” one fan commented online.
“The sad thing is…this terrible scoring by certain teams means we are losing the better cooks,” another agreed. “Dreams are being dashed by spiteful people who are voting to eliminate the cooks who are a threat to them instead of putting their cooking up to the challenge.
“Angus and Simon accused Zoe of not being able to judge and vote properly because she doesn’t eat meat, yet they are doing the same thing! They are not judging the food!! We are going to be left with the teams that are the weakest instead of the best.”
“I’m shocked the best are being eliminated,” a third chimed in. “I’m pissed off. It’s not a cooking show no more. It’s bullies attacking the best cooks, disgusting.”
However, some viewers tried reminding fans that “it’s more or less like this every year”.
“You just forget since it’s been a year,” one user wrote on social media.
Others agreed that while it may have happened “back in the old days”, it didn’t happen “so openly”.
How Zoe and Zac didn’t give in to ‘alliance’ pressure
After Tiffany and Giancarlo’s elimination, the pair told WHO that the night before their elimination cook-off with Zoe and Zac, they received a text from production.
“We were actually sent a message [from production] the night before going, ‘Just so you guys know, there are teams coming up against you to get you out. Like they’ve formed an alliance,'” Giancarlo said.
However, Zoe and Zac were firm in sticking to their morals. While they may have received a lot of heat and negativity from Angus and Simon throughout the competition, they told WHO they never stooped to their level.
“We were always conscious that we needed to judge the food in front of us,” Zac said. “We weren’t going to pretend we were best friends with [Angus and Simon] or that their behaviour hadn’t affected us, but we also didn’t want to become the kind of contestants who let personal feelings completely dictate their scores.”
“Can’t say the same for other contestants,” he added.
So, while there may be quite a few strategies working behind the scenes in this competition, there are still a handful of contestants who are hoping to win without playing dirty.
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