Badcock was approached by the production team to join MasterChef Australia: The Professionals where 18 chefs competed over two months.
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In June 2009 O'Donoghue took part in Masterchef Australia in a Celebrity Chef Challenge, where he was beaten by contestant Lucas Parsons, cooking a seared kangaroo loin with creamed corn.
In Australia the chocolate tart came to national attention after being featured on the first series of MasterChef Australia in 2009.
During Culvenor’s time at Shine Australia, the company successfully launched Australian formats of such series as MasterChef, The Biggest Loser, The Voice Australia, Australia's Next Top Model, Minute to Win It, Aussie Pickers and Dating in the Dark.
Manu Feildel (born 1974) is a French celebrity chef, living in Australia, most widely known for his participation in Australia's cookery competition programs Ready Steady Cook, MasterChef Australia and My Kitchen Rules although he also achieved a solid reputation as a head chef at the restaurant Bilson's before moving to open his own restaurant, Manu at L'Étoile, in 2009.
In Australia, the show aired on SBS Two and local media described the show as, "a wonderful study in TV's hybridisation of ideas: part Survivor, part MasterChef and part Man vs. Wild".