Tarryn de Kock, Shawn Godfrey and Andriette de la Harpe.
- The winner of the 4th season of MasterChef South Africa will be announced in the grand finale tonight.
- Either Tarryn de Kock or Andriette de la Harpe will be going up against Shawn Godfrey in the final competition cook-off.
- The special hour-and-half episode will have another world-renowned South African guest judge making an appearance.
The winner of the 4th season of MasterChef South Africa that will broadcast its season finale tonight on M-Net (DStv 101) will definitely be from Cape Town, with either Tarryn de Kock or Andriette de la Harpe, who will be going up against Shawn Godfrey in the final competition cook-off.
The MasterChef season 4 finale, produced by Homebrew Films, will have a special hour-and-a-half duration tonight on M-Net with another world-renowned South Africa guest judge and chef appearing.
There will be tears, stress, mistakes, and not enough time as the contestants are forced to discard some of their plans, ingredients and even ditch half-prepared food to put something on the plate for the judges by the time the MasterChef clock overhead signals that it is all over.
DStv subscribers saw how Cape Town CEO and entrepreneur Shawn Godfrey (34) won and got a pass-through to the final in Wednesday’s semi-final.
It means that senior researcher Tarryn de Kock (25) from Cape Town and the entrepreneur Andriette de la Harpe, also from the Mother City, will first compete against each other in a cook-off on Thursday evening. After that, the best one of the two of them will face off against Shawn in the night’s final MasterChef challenge.
Then the winner will be announced, with the season’s 20 MasterChef SA contestants all back in the Maker’s Landing test kitchen at the V&A Waterfront.
“They just need to clear their mind and just remember that you need to cook with love and passion because that’s what brought them into the competition in the first place,” says judge Gregory Czarnecki.
Judge Zola Nene says, “this is a moment – whether you’re the winner, runner-up, or third – it’s a life-changing moment. It’s big! It’s big!”
Judge Justine Drake says, “the three of them have put their lives, hearts, and souls into this journey, and they must be feeling enormously proud but also terrified. They’re still here to win.”
Tarryn says, “the person who walked into the MasterChef SA kitchen was not as self-assured as I am now. I’ve never been confident in my ability; I’ve never trusted myself as much as I have learnt to trust myself coming here”.
Andriette, who was retrenched in 2021, says that MasterChef SA “has really been a journey. I’ve gone through a lot here”.
She says, “every cook has been a fight. Every cook is me trying to find myself again. I want to win MasterChef for every person who had their worth taken away from them. That has felt that they aren’t good enough.”
Shawn says, “winning MasterChef SA is something I really want to do for the kids. There are a few fundamentals that you can take out of the MasterChef kitchen: Just stick to your guns, keep persevering, keep recovering. You may hit bottom, but you can keep coming back up.”
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