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The twelfth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia, also known as MasterChef Australia: Back To Win, premiered on 13 April 2020. It is the first series to feature series four winner Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo serving as judges, after the departure of Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston in the previous season.[5] This series involves former high-achieving contestants from the past eleven series of MasterChef Australia, returning for another chance at the title of ‘MasterChef’ and the A$250,000 prize.
Applications for contestants for the twelfth series of MasterChef Australia opened in May 2019. However, plans were changed when returning contestants were brought onboard instead of new contestants. Katy Perry appeared as a guest judge in an immunity challenge based around her song “Hot N Cold”, which is the theme song of the show.
This series was won by Emelia Jackson in the grand finale against Laura Sharrad, broadcast on 20 July 2020.
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The 24 returning contestants were announced on 19 February 2020. In March 2020, Ben Ungermann was dropped from the series after being arrested in a matter unrelated to the show. His departure was announced on 17 May 2020. The arrest was connected to accusations of sexual assault against a 16-year-old girl. Those charges were dropped when Ungermann pleaded guilty to a single count of common law assault, avoiding a criminal conviction.
| Contestant | Age | State | Occupation | Original Series | Previous Season Placing |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emelia Jackson | 30 | VIC | Cake Designer & Chef | Series 6 | 3rd | Winner 20 July |
| Laura Sharrad | 24 | SA | Chef & Restaurateur | Series 6 | 2nd | Runner-up 20 July |
| Reynold Poernomo | 26 | NSW | Chef & Restaurateur | Series 7 | 4th | Third Place 19 July |
| Callum Hann | 30 | SA | Restaurateur & Culinary Educator | Series 2 [a] | 2nd | Eliminated 14 July |
| Reece Hignell | 30 | NSW | Cake Designer & Chef | Series 10 | 6th | Eliminated 12 July |
| Poh Ling Yeow | 46 | SA | Chef, Artist, Actress & TV Presenter | Series 1 [b] | 2nd | Eliminated 5 July |
| Tessa Boersma | 28 | QLD | Chef & Criminal Statistician | Series 11 | 2nd | Eliminated 28 June |
| Brendan Pang | 26 | WA | Restaurateur | Series 10 | 9th | Eliminated 21 June |
| Khanh Ong | 27 | VIC | Business Owner & Chef | Series 10 | 3rd | Eliminated 14 June |
| Sarah Tiong | 29 | NSW | Lawyer & Restaurateur | Series 9 | 6th | Eliminated 9 June |
| Simon Toohey | 33 | VIC | Cook & Restaurateur | Series 11 | 3rd | Eliminated 7 June |
| Jess Liemantara | 22 | VIC | Chef | Series 10 | 4th | Eliminated 31 May |
| Tracy Collins | 44 | SA | Restaurateur | Series 6 | 5th | Eliminated 24 May |
| Sarah Clare | 33 | TAS | Restaurateur | Series 10 | 10th | Eliminated 19 May |
| Hayden Quinn | 33 | NSW | TV Presenter & Marine Biologist | Series 3 | 6th | Eliminated 17 May |
| Ben Ungermann | 36 | QLD | Ice Cream Shop Owner & Chef | Series 9 | 2nd | Left 17 May |
| Amina Elshafei | 35 | NSW | Paediatric Nurse & Author | Series 4 | 11th | Eliminated 12 May |
| Chris Badenoch | 52 | WA | Business Owner & Restaurateur | Series 1 | 3rd | Eliminated 10 May |
| Rose Adam | 42 | SA | Chef & Café Owner | Series 7 | 10th | Eliminated 5 May |
| Dani Venn | 34 | VIC | Business Owner & Publicist | Series 3 | 4th | Eliminated 3 May |
| Harry Foster | 25 | QLD | Chef | Series 8 | 3rd | Eliminated 28 April |
| Ben Milbourne | 38 | TAS | Restaurateur | Series 4 | 5th | Eliminated 26 April |
| Courtney Roulston | 39 | NSW | Chef | Series 2 | 5th | Eliminated 21 April |
| Lynton Tapp | 32 | VIC | TV Presenter & Chef | Series 5 | 2nd | Eliminated 19 April |
Episode Summary All-In Elimination: Four-Course Service — All contestants other than Reynold faced a service elimination challenge, with Matt Stone, Jo Barrett, Shannon Martinez, Peter Gunn, Darren Purchese and Kirsten Tibballs all joining the judges as the guests of the service. Each contestant was assigned one of four courses, with Reece cooking vegetables, Emelia fish, […]
Episode Summary Savoury and Sweet Team Challenge — For this week’s service challenge, the contestants were asked to distribute themselves between two teams, with one cooking savory dishes and the other cooking sweet dishes. Matt Stone mentored Brendan’s Yellow Team (Tessa, Simon, Khanh, Sarah Tiong, Brendan, Sarah Clare and Laura) in cooking a savoury three-course […]
Episode Summary Pressure Test: Peter Gunn’s “Black Box” — The members of the Yellow Team were given 2 hours and 45 minutes to recreate Peter Gunn’s “Black Box”, a dessert designed to look like a simple black cube, but in reality being a tempered white chocolate shell containing 10 different intricate elements. Tessa and Laura […]
Episode Summary Shannon Martinez’s Vegan Mystery Box — Chef Shannon Martinez arrived to set the Mystery Box challenge. As a renowned champion of vegan food, Shannon revealed that the challenge would involve no animal-based products. The Mystery Boxes were revealed to contain miniature kitchen gardens growing baby cos, radish, beetroots, asparagus, Dutch carrots, pencil leeks, […]
Episode Summary Comfort Food Immunity Challenge — Simon, Reece, Poh and Jess were faced with a two-round Immunity Challenge centering on comfort food. In the first round, the contestants were required to revamp instant noodles into a restaurant-quality dish. Despite failing to create the crispy noodle topping for her khao soi dish, Jess impressed the […]
Episode Summary All-In Kingfish Elimination — Chef Josh Niland set a two-round elimination challenge themed around fish. All the contestants aside from Jess were shown several different types of fish, and had to take turns identifying them. Khanh, Emelia, Laura, Tracy and Reece were the first five to guess incorrectly, moving into the second round. […]
Episode Summary Two-Dish Team Relay Challenge — The judges announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, contestants would need to begin practicing social distancing and taking heightened sanitation measures. In order to allow the contestants time to adapt to these new changes, the pressure test was cancelled, two contestants would be allowed to gain Weekly […]
Episode Summary Immunity Pressure Test: Kirsten Tibballs’ “Meljito” — For the first Immunity Challenge of the week, Kirsten Tibballs arrived to set a Pressure Test for the Green Team. Khanh, Emelia, Brendan and Simon were tasked with recreating her “Meljito”, a white chocolate and watermelon dessert designed to resemble a watermelon cocktail. Simon, Khanh and […]
Episode Summary Memories Mystery Box — All the contestants aside from Emelia, who had already won Weekly Immunity, opened their Mystery Boxes to find family photos from their childhoods. They then had to cook dishes inspired by the memories shown in the photos, with the Top 4 dishes sending their makers into the second Immunity […]
Episode Summary Fairy Tales Immunity Challenge — For the second Immunity Challenge of the week, Khanh, Brendan, Jess, Poh and Reynold were given 75 minutes to build a dish around a classic fairy tale (Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, The Ugly Duckling, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding […]