WATCH: Joe Bastianich Says Blind MasterChef-testant Belongs In Coat Check
On last night’s MasterChef, the final six took over the kitchen of Hatfield’s in Los Angeles for service (Gordon Ramsay and Quinn Hatfield are apparently BFFs — Quinn appeared on this week’s Hell’s Kitchen, too!). They split into teams (which wound up pitting boys against girls) but, interestingly, MasterChef’s first ever blind contestant, Christine, went from regularly being the last one picked for team challenges to being the first one picked in this challenge of cooking in a Michelin-starred restaurant.
The judges voiced their surprise, but none quite so offensively as Joe Bastianich. Gordon, who has barely concealed his favoritism towards her for the entire competition, asked his fellow judges where they would put Christine in a Michelin restaurant. Graham Elliot volunteered that her superb palate would best be put to use at the end of a line, finishing off a dish. Joe oh-so-delicately replied that he’d stick her in the coat room.
“No!” Gordon shot back, shocked.
“This is a live kitchen, Michelin-starred restaurant. She can’t do it. She’s a liability.”
Check out the tiff below.
Of course, despite Christine’s handicap (and Monty’s? She’s hard of hearing all of a sudden? Since when?), the Red Team still won the challenge, and Joe was forced to recant his previous statement. Watch him eat his words:
Other highlights included David Martinez setting a plastic squeeze bottle down on a hot griddle and melting it. Obviously he was kicked off but not before Graham offered him a job at either g.e.b. or Grahamwich. David’s choice! Let that be a lesson kids: do dumb things, get insane rewards. (We hate reality TV.)
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I love how emotional this show is, and the comment that Joe made seemed sincere, as well as apology. He’s definitely an opinionated man, as I have read his blog with comments about the contestants, and he certainly doesn’t like certain ones. His apology was the best part of the show so far! I got started watching last year when my Dish coworker suggested I watch, and although I’m glad I started, it is better that I can watch commercial free now. I use Auto Hop to skip commercials on my PrimeTime Anytime recordings and it helps me get the hour long show done in 40 minutes. That gives me more time to watch another show, or get to bed a little earlier.
Joe Bastianich is a B-A-S-T-A-R-D! I’ve never really like him much anyway because of his smug attitude, but now I literally can’t stand him. His comments were hateful, and so is he. I wish him nothing but failure in everything he does until he changes is “better than everybody else” attitude. Please replace him on Materchef – he is no longer welcome.
My a family and I were so offended by Joe’s comments about blind people. I’m surprised the American Foundation for the Blind didn’t protest. I wish they would get rid of Joe. Joe’s statement basically makes all blind people seem incapable of cooking or doing anything productive alone.