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After this year’s season of ended on , fans will now have to wait until 2025 for the popular reality show to return. Channel Seven announced last month that , however, there have been plenty of rumours surrounding whether will be involved. Multiple publications have claimed that the pair might not return to the series next year, with reporting that producers are eyeing and “to stir the pot”.
A production insider also recently told that Manu and Colin have “threatened to quit” if either Curtis or Gordon were to join . Colin has now addressed the rumours and confirmed to that not only will he be returning to the show in 2025, but he loves the idea of Curtis and Gordon sitting on the judging panel. “Curtis is a good friend of mine, so I’d love to work with Curtis again because we’ve done it before,” he says, referencing the chef’s previous four seasons as a guest judge.
“And then Gordon, I actually worked for Gordon and Gordon's a champion in the industry. I'd be proud to be on the show with Gordon.” Colin went on to say that although certain people like to “stir up trouble”, most TV personalities in the food industry are friends.
“Also, if Gordon Ramsay was on the show the ratings would go through the roof which means I'll get hired again for next year,” he remarks. “We’ve all got bills to pay, school fees, so whatever makes it better.” While he doesn’t confirm or deny the rumours of Curtis and Gordon’s involvement next season, he says: “I’ll put it this way - with , there are always little surprises.
” Not only will Colin and Manu be returning for in 2025, but they will also be called The Irish chef tells that the series is an “off-the-beaten-path food adventure” where he and Manu travel around for a month in a caravan. “We did the North Island and the South Island, and it was sort of like a chef’s dream scenario where you get to shoot, fish and hunt,” he details. “We did a lot of cooking with the Māori people, Manu and I got tattoos which wasn’t planned, I managed to split my head open - you’ll have to watch the series for that one.
” Colin explains that was filmed “a few months ago” in between production for Australia and New Zealand, but has been a long time in the making. “We’ve been talking to Seven about it for years, just getting on the road,” he shares. “Manu had an idea to do a thing called ‘A Big Lap Around Australia’ and no one wanted to do it, but when we were in New Zealand I said, ‘We should do it in a caravan’.
It was Manu’s idea, but I made it better. “We saw this little caravan in the garden one day when we were shooting MKR over there and we said, ‘Wouldn't it be great to do it in a 1960s caravan?’. We sent it to the producer of Screentime in New Zealand, who works very closely with Channel Seven, and he said, ‘Let’s make it happen’, and then Seven jumped on board.
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