MKR brings back Sophia Pou — and she’s brasher than ever
My Kitchen Rules talent Sophia Pou made a name for herself in 2013 thank to her win-at-all-costs attitude and now she’s back.
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My Kitchen Rules’ most controversial contestant is back and doesn’t seem to have mellowed at all since she first hit the screens in 2013. Cocky, acid-tongued reality television regular Sophia Pou has been recruited yet again for the upcoming season of MKR: The Rivals, apparently thanks to her good looks, big personality and excellent cooking skills.
“I am the complete package,” Pou told Sunday Confidential.
“I look amazing, I have a great personality and I can cook. I am actually a really good cook.”
Pou will be paired with another outspoken former MKR contestant Romel Kouyan, who has promised to bring plenty of drama to the screen as an outspoken antagonist.
“Both Sophia and I are very upfront, we call it as we see it and we are honest,” he said.
“As you know with reality TV, a lot of people put up a front, so it is always good to have a couple or individual who call people out for who they are and we will do that.
“I will be more controversial this year than I was in 2019.”
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Pou and Kouyan will be joined by former My Kitchen Rules winners Dan and Steph Mulheron, who are prepared to put their Hervey Bay restaurant on the line for another chance at prizemoney that could help to expand their family.
The couple won the fourth season of the show, in 2013, allowing them to undergo IVF which resulted in them welcoming daughter Emmy four years ago, open their restaurant EAT and buy their first home.
They are the only returning winners on the new MKR: The Rivals format and hope to give Emmy a sibling.
“We are in the food industry now. If we were to go on (the show) and do poorly then consequently our business would suffer,” Dan, 38, said.
Steph, 37, added: “Everything we have done in seven years is thanks to MKR. If we didn’t do it we know Emmy probably wouldn’t be here. We don’t know what direction life would have taken us. We want to give her a sibling and keep the doors of our restaurant open.”
The couple said without the $100,000 prizemoney they won in 2013 IVF treatments would have been “really tough financially”.
Dan also had gastric sleeve surgery, allowing him to lose 85kg and change their cooking style to a cleaner and leaner approach.
It did add a complication for the cook, however, when it came to eating at the instant restaurants while filming MKR: The Rivals.
“There was one night where I said I wish I had my stomach back tonight and I’d never said that before,” Dan said.
MKR: The Rivals premieres on February 2 at 7pm on Seven
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