It was all cooked up
MY KITCHEN RULES EVICTEES SAY THEY WERE FED LINES BY PRODUCERS IN THEIR ON-SCREEN SPAT
TV villain Sonya Mefaddi has broken her silence on being booted from My Kitchen Rules, accusing producers of using her and teammate Hadil Faiza for ratings.
Speaking to News Corp, Mefaddi said producers fed her lines and told the cast that the show needed to be actionpacked to compete with Married at First Sight.
“Ratings played a big part in this. I feel they were using this situation for ratings, I was specifically told we are going up against Married at First Sight, we need to create noise,” Mefaddi said.
“Everything adds up that they wanted this to happen.
“Yes we were in control of our words and our actions but they fuelled it and pushed us to breaking point.”
Mefaddi suggested the fight, which saw them kickedoff the show, was orchestrated by the producers.
“A producer was feeding us lines the whole way to Kim and Suong’s instant restaurant,” she said.
“Lines like ‘Hadil you should say to Emma you know what you should be on Botched, Sonya you should say to Jess you girls think you are princesses but real princesses wear diamonds not cubic zirconias.’”
She said that she was shocked when they were cut from filming. “I was blindsided,” she said. “At the time Manu said you are excused for tonight.
“When they called us into Channel 7 and told us we were let go from the show I broke down in tears.”
Revealing never-beforetold details, the Sydney-based fashion designer and business owner said she and Faiza, who now lives and works in Cairns, had been kept from the other contestants in the lead-up to the instant restaurant to build tension. She said judges Pete Evans and Manu Feidel were not present for any of the drama and only appeared at the table to dismiss them.
The taxi which arrived to drive the ladies away from filming was apparently sitting waiting for them.