MasterChef’s Laura Sharrad reveals candy five-word textual content from Emelia Jackson after win

It’s been 11 years since Laura Sharrad and Emelia Jackson first competed alongside each other on MasterChef Australia, ending in second and third place, respectively. The season six contestants then returned to the competitors in 2020 for the primary ‘Back To Win’, with Emelia taking the title and Laura as soon as once more coming runner-up.

This 12 months’s season of the Channel 10 present noticed Laura return for her third shot on the crown, and he or she was in the end introduced because the winner in Tuesday evening’s grand finale. She tells Yahoo Lifestyle following her victory that whereas it was her first finale with out Emelia, the Dessert Queen was undoubtedly there in spirit.

“Emelia and I were actually messaging a lot throughout the episode. She was constantly checking in and sending me very motivating messages; it was so lovely,” she shares. “I got a really lovely message from her [on Wednesday morning] too, like, ‘Finally! Welcome to the club’.”

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Emelia, who has identified Laura since childhood as they attended the identical major and highschool, albeit in separate years, additionally tells Yahoo Lifestyle that she’s extremely happy with her pal and former co-star.

“I’m so so so proud of Loz,” she says. “Showing up for a third time, with her beautiful baby in tow, no less, would have been so difficult. I always knew she had it in he,r and I am so happy to see our names side by side on the MasterChef trophy!”

Why this finale was so particular

Tuesday evening’s episode noticed Laura go head-to-head with one other certainly one of her 2020 co-stars, Callum Hann, who has now changed her as the one contestant to complete second twice.

She explains that whereas each grand finale she’s skilled has been incomparable and he or she’s “loved them all in different ways”, she felt as if there was a “new energy” this time round.

“I felt really confident and calm,” she remarks. “I was probably the most excited that I’ve ever been because my husband Max and our daughter Florence were going to be there, and I was getting to do it alongside my friend, Callum.”

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She additionally reveals that regardless of the present filming alternate endings with every of the 2 finalists, she wasn’t too shocked with the end result that aired on TV.

“Although I was personally aware of the result, my friends and family weren’t, so watching it together and soaking up the moment with them was very special,” she recollects. “To see it play out on air also made it feel real, which I think I needed because before that, I kept thinking, ‘Did I actually win? Were they sure?’.”

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