This past Monday the twelfth season of MasterChef began on Spanish Television’s La 1, and it did so with a large and forceful cast of contestants. Up to fifty candidates started the first eliminatory test in front of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, ??before the judges decided the final selections at the end of the program. One of the people who stayed at the doors was Idoia Montero.
The Gipuzkoan, sister of the former singer of La Oreja de Van Gogh Amaia Montero, was on the verge of qualifying as a regular contestant, after the decisive refusals of Jordi Cruz and Pepe Rodríguez. “I would like to say yes, but I won’t be able to. You have opened many paths and none have convinced you. I haven’t seen that you want to be a cook,” the Catalan chef told him after trying a dish he called Henko.
“MasterChef changes your life. We always say it. But I think you still need a little more maturation,” the Illescas judge insisted, before Idoia left a heartfelt message before the cameras: “I would have liked to enter, but failure is doing nothing. That’s why I’m happy.” Some words that have generated a multitude of reactions and support on social networks, including those of her sister Amaia de ella.
“Failure is doing nothing, dear sister, and I add that true success is trying again and again and not giving up. Nobody knows it like you, we know it well. And yes, that ‘I want to be’ is a white flag. I don’t believe in good professionals if they are not good people and you are exceptional. Noah, amatxo, aitatxo and I are very proud of you. Don’t let anyone tell you who you are,” the artist wrote through her Instagram profile.
The premiere of MasterChef 12 has left notable audience data despite being broadcast around eleven at night, a time that several viewers described as untimely due to the return of Easter. The criticisms have not taken long to appear, although one in particular has surprised due to its origin. Basque chef Karlos Arguiñano criticized the format for not representing the culinary world.
“It focuses more on the conflict between the contestants than on true collaborative cooking and camaraderie. I haven’t wanted to do any; Those are not cooking shows, they are cooking reality shows. “There you look more for the tears, the crying, the one who stole this from you, I hinder you, I don’t leave you… and cooking is camaraderie,” the chef expressed in a talk within the framework of his cooking courses.
