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Celebrity chef Julie Goodwin hosts cooking segment on rival Seven after MasterChef: Back To Win absence

Celebrity chef Julie Goodwin hosts cooking segment on rival Seven after MasterChef: Back To Win absence

Sky News AU01-05-2025

Julie Goodwin has appeared on Seven's Sunrise program after being noticeably left out of Channel 10's MasterChef: Back To Win.
Ten's kitchen competition series returned to screens on Monday with 24 contestants from previous seasons vying for a second chance to win the title.
Goodwin, 54, shot to national fame after winning the inaugural season of MasterChef Australia in 2009 and became a successful cookbook author and Australian Women's Weekly columnist.
Despite her long association with the Ten cooking competition series, Goodwin is understood to not be involved in the current season MasterChef: Back To Win.
Instead, Goodwin jumped over to rival Seven to host a cooking segment alongside Sunrise host Matt Shirvington.
'STROGANOFF!,' Goodwin wrote on Instagram on Wednesday alongside a clip of her TV appearance.
'Chicken stroganoff this morning on @sunriseon7 with the @womensweeklymag.
'Inexpensive, easy, warming and yum!'
Goodwin's Sunrise gig comes as her old kitchen rival Poh Ling Yeow was given the red carpet treatment and returned to MasterChef as a full-time judge this season.
While Julie is not involved in Back To Win, the celebrity chef did earlier appear in the spin-off MasterChef Australia All-Stars in 2012, raising over $35,000 for charity.
In 2022, Goodwin returned to the cooking series again for season 14 of MasterChef Australia in 2022, finishing in fifth place.
The update comes after the mum-of-three opened about her private mental health battles after rocketing to fame on the back of her MasterChef victory.
Goodwin was secretly battling mental health demons as her star rose, which culminated in a mid-range drink driving offence in 2018 and an attempt on her own life two years later.
'I couldn't see how to keep living. I didn't want to leave my family, but I just honestly believed that they would be a lot better off if I did,' she told Project host Hamish Macdonald in 2024.
The star cook later spoke to Nine Honey about her mental health journey and revealed she was now in a good place.
"I'm good, I really am," she said.
"But it's a concentrated effort to remain good, you know. I've learnt so much over the past few years about what I need to do to be well and now I just put priority on those things."
The beloved celebrity chef also said that she needed to focus on prioritising her physical and mental health to avoid 'sliding again'.
"I know that if I let any of those things go that I could start to slide again so I'm pretty, you know, I'm pretty vigilant about it all cause it's important," she said.
"I don't want to go back there again."

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