Adelaide foodie Callum Hann reflects on his time on MasterChef Australia: Back To Win after being eliminated from the hit TV show
Adelaide celebrity chef Callum Hann has reflected on his time on the current series of MasterChef after being eliminated in a heartbreaking showdown with fellow South Aussie Laura Sharrad.
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If there’s one thing Callum Hann will miss about MasterChef, it’s “eating like a king” every day after the cameras stopped rolling.
The popular Adelaide chef was eliminated from Channel 10’s cooking competition on Tuesday night, leaving Laura Sharrad, Emelia Jackson and Reynold Poernomo to fight it out for MasterChef’s “Back to Win” title.
While disappointed to come so close to victory, Callum says he’ll always cherish the experience and the friendly camaraderie between the contestants.
“We were all living in the same apartment building and you’d be chilling on the couch and you’d get a knock on the door and it’s Poh (Ling Yeow) with her creme brulee and she wants you to try it,” Callum says. “Or half an hour later, Laura comes up and she’s made this beautiful olive and rosemary focaccia and she wants you to take a bite.
“That sort of stuff happened all the time … we just ate like kings. What some people would dream of was just every day life for a couple of months.
“It’s all those little moments, outside of the kitchen, that’s how we all became great mates and started genuinely caring about each other.”
Callum, who won a mini MasterChef All Stars series in 2012, came up against fellow South Aussie Laura in a final head-to-head battle, which he described as a “no-win situation”.
“Either I get eliminated, which sucks, or I win the challenge and I effectively eliminate Laura, which doesn’t make me very happy either,” he says. “But overall I’m really proud of myself and what I achieved.”
Just 20 when he finished runner-up on the 2010 season of the show, Callum became a father just three months before going to shoot the new series in Melbourne. Baby Elle and wife Crystal, above, in a photo by Little Luv Photography, came over to live with him for the last two months of filming.
“It really kept me grounded. You can get caught up in the little things in the competition and think about the criticism but having Elle, who just wants to give you a little cuddle … it gives you a great perspective and actually helps your performance,” says Callum, who’s now focusing on his Sprout Cooking School with good friend and business partner Themis Chryssidis.
