The second season of Dessert Masters is in full swing on Channel 10, but who are this year’s judges?
Meet the judges of Dessert Masters 2024: culinary icons Melissa Leong and Amaury Guichon. Both have very impressive resumes in their respective culinary fields, making them the perfect addition to the show.
Learn more about Melissa and Amaury below.
Meet Dessert Masters judge Melissa Leong
Melissa Leong, a former MasterChef Australia judge, made her move to the sweet side to host Dessert Masters in its inaugural season.
Not only has Melissa been a judge on one of Australia’s most beloved shows, but she is also a respected food and travel writer, broadcaster, TV presenter, MC, and cookbook editor.
Melissa has worked with some of the most respected names in food, not just in Australia but around the world. She has collaborated with Marco Pierre White, Adriano Zumbo, Colin Fassnidge and Dan Hong.
She has an extensive broadcast background, beginning her TV career on the Netflix show The Chef’s Line in 2016, then MasterChef Australia in 2020.
In 2022, she published her first children’s novel, A Taste Adventure, where she explains the six tastes, and shows readers different flavours and food from around the world. Melissa has also recently been a guest on PlaySchool. See her below giving Big Ted a big cuddle (we’re so jealous!). She has also hosted UFC fight nights on Kayo and Foxtel.
Meet Dessert Masters judge Amaury Guichon
Amaury is a chocolate connoisseur, famously known as ‘The Chocolate Guy’. As you can guess, he is famous for creating masterpieces made out of choccy.
Take a look at this giant chocolate Lego sculpture of rapper A$AP Rocky — It’s a shame that he didn’t call the sculpture A$AP Rocky Road!
At age 33, Amaury already has a very long resume. He studied at the prestigious French culinary school At the age of 33, Amaury already has a very long resume.
He studied at the prestigious French culinary school L’École Hôtelière Savoie Léman. Subsequently, he landed a gig as the youngest executive pastry chef in Paris at only 21.
The Swiss chef took up an apprenticeship at the Maison Lenôtre in Paris before competing in the French reality cooking series Who will be the next great pastry chef? in 2013.
He also has his own cooking school called The Pastry Academy in Las Vegas.
Similar to Melissa, Amaury has had a stint on MasterChef Australia but as a guest judge. In 2023, he appeared on the season finale of the show where he put contestants Brent Draper and Rhiannon Anderson through their paces with his now-infamous Pocket Watch.
Dessert Masters 2024 airs on October 14 on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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