The Plonker Club

As we have featured when informing you of past try-outs, some of the questions can be a bit wacky – here are my picks from the MasterChef show that Gordon Ramsay will be hosting in February 2010 (not sure when it will air though!) Full form can be found here!

How did you hear about casting for “MasterChef”(please be specific)?

Do you have any obligations that would prevent you from being gone from your home and job for an extended period of time? If so, please explain.
What excuse could you give for them to have you on the show if you couldn’t comply???

If NO, what is your cooking background (cookbooks, self taught, internet, family recipes)?
Yep, I cook on the internet and have 5 stars on all levels of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen game!

Do you have a favorite chef? If!so, list whom and why:
Will anyone get this question wrong??

Describe your feelings about Chef Gordon Ramsay?
See above!

Describe a major issue that has affected your life. Do you still face this issue?
WTF?

Do you have tattoos? Y/N! Comments:
See above

Have you had plastic surgery? Y/N Comments:
WTFF?

Have you ever hit someone in anger or self defense? YES/NO
If so, please provide details below!(i.e. year, how it happened)
I ain’t nobody’s Bitch!

If chosen to be a contestant on “MasterChef,” is there any part of your life that you would prefer not to share on camera?!(i.e., social organizations, activities, personal history, friends, family,!etc.)
I wonder if Jerry Springer asks the same questions??

List your three (3) closest male friends whom we could call as character references. Please list their names and contact information
List your three (3) closest female friends whom we could call as character references. Please list their names and contact information
Would it be more worrying if they said the same things about you?

Just getting through the application form seems to be an ordeal!

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

While reading between the lines on some old google alerts, I was ecstatic to discover that new episodes of my favourite television show, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares have already been made! Yes that is the UK edition and not the bastardised over-hyped, poorly edited, super predictable US version!

The report talked about how a restaurant that was ‘rescued’ four months ago had Gordon Ramsay there four months later (from mid-December) to shoot his part of The Great British Food Fight. the restaurant is Silversmiths Restaurant in Sheffield City.

I can’t wait until I can go back and see a Kitchen Nightmare where I can learn something about restaurants and maybe a recipe or two, not just hyped up confrontations, a contrived story line mixed with renovations and a happily-ever-after ending. Not to mention the editing of fights where the peoples clothes change colour as they appear to make a number of exchanges, just one – before the revalation occurs (midway through the final service). Add to this the American arrogance of inviting Gordon Ramsay to your restaurant, then telling him he can’t cook, doesn’t know what he is talking about and that there is no problems because all of the customers love whatever the offend dish/feature is.

I only really watch the show because I am a Gordon Ramsay fan, and occasionally the script isn’t followed to closely.

In case you can’t tell, I’m not a big fan of the cookie cutter US version, it is like a cross between Jerry Springer and a renovation show, with lots of spoilers and recaps to fill in the time!

I’ll email Channel 4 and Optomen to see if I can find out when we can expect this! There will definitely be a counter on The Plonker Club homepage for this one, similar to the one we have for Hell’s Kitchen USA Season 5!

2009 is already becoming a great year!

David Driscoll
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerlcub.com