Poh Ling Yeow breaks silence over reports she’s ‘quit’ MasterChef
Beloved MasterChef star Poh Ling Yeow has finally addressed reports that she has quit the hit Channel 10 show.
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Poh Ling Yeow has broken her silence over rumours that she had decided to quit her judging role on MasterChef.
Reports emerged earlier this week claiming that the fan-favourite judge could be set to walk away from the show at the end of the season that’s currently airing.
An insider claimed that Channel 10 executives were hoping to get original contestant Julie Goodwin to step into Yeow’s role.
However, a spokesman for the star has now told Daily Mail that the reports are entirely false, which will be good news for fans of the show.
“There’s no truth to the speculation. Poh is loving her time on MasterChef and feels like she’s found her place.” said the spokesman.
The TV insider had told New Idea that “Julie would be a fantastic judge. Fans love her. While no one wants to see Poh leave, everyone would welcome Julie back with open arms.”
The rumours of Yeow planning to leave came after shared in the last that she didn’t always feel as though judging others came naturally to her, admitting that she sometimes thinks about being a contestant again.
“I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but I love the chaos (of being a contestant) and there’s nothing quite as exhilarating as just having days on end where you do not know what’s going to happen,” she said about her time as a MasterChef competitor in 2009 and 2020.
“Even when I’m standing … at the top of the room (as a judge), I sometimes fantasise about being a contestant again,” Yeow added.
“I constantly run through the challenges that I have just delivered and think about what I would do in that situation. That’s how much I miss and love it.”
Poh joined the judging panel last year alongside newcomers Jean-Christophe Novelli and Sofia Levin, as well as existing judge Andy Allen.
Speaking to news.com.au, Poh previously admitted that she’s still struggling to get her head around the judging role.
“I’m still feeling so in the deep end, to be honest,” she said. “It is so difficult. I knew it was going to be hard, but I didn’t quite realise just how hard it was gonna be.”
“It is a little bit related to me feeling self-conscious, and I don’t really like to use the words ‘impostor syndrome,’ it’s more that … I feel like I don’t know that much,” she said.
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