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Yep, Poh still loves to get "the girls" out. 🍈🍈 Finally managed to catch up tonight by watching last night's cook on fast forward. I totally agree, @Snazzy Daisy, that we're seeing waaaaaay too much of some cooks. Makes me think that Audra, Laura and Callum must have asked for a stack more money and the producers wanted to get bang for their buck. I remember thinking this during the last Back To Win show - it's almost unfair to put people who have actually run their own restaurants and gone on to have real careers in the food industry up against people like Kath, who I can only assume was cast as "cannon fodder". It feels like putting the winner of an under-14 100 metre race against Usain Bolt in a way - just not a fair fight. Hehe, I thought of you during that montage, believe it or not! I was rolling my eyes and wondering how long before TPTB will find a way to shoehorn St Nat into this season as some kind of special guest? My guess for who goes on Saturday? Probably Kath.

Oh no...poor Pete :( I wish him a speedy recovery. The Big C isn't fun, which I unfortunately know from personal experience. Very pleased to be one of the lucky ones and I hope he is too.

I'm not thrilled to see her either. Something about that woman just rubs me up the wrong way - urgh!

Hey, @Snazzy Daisy! Might be just us two chewing the fat about MCAU this season. It's weird that this season didn't seem to get the fanfare or buildup that it usually does and just kinda popped out on our screens last night, which is why I'm still only up to episode 1. But I'm glad it's back! A few random musings: There are definitely some seasons I didn't watch, or which I did watch but recall quite sketchily which is why I was looking blankly at quite a few of those featured as well as those in the background in this first episode. I must have blanked out that dreadful season that Justin won because I barely remember Pete, and I still don't think I'm over the fact that both Pete AND Justin beat the truly amazing Kishwar! I definitely watched S6 but I don't remember Jamie at all and I barely remember Ben. Mind you, that was probably because of the outstanding contestants in S6 like Laura and Emilia. Those I'm really happy to see back: Callum. He was my favourite in S2 and I liked him even more when he came back for his second season. He ran that service challenge like a boss - I felt almost like a proud mum watching him! Declan - another more recent favourite. Rue - she was pretty cool in her season. Snez - I always wished she'd gone further in her season. Theo - it was like seeing an old friend again! Darrsh - because even old ladies need eye candy!! Laura, although I don't like her so much as a leader. In the "what the hell were they thinking" category: Kath and Kim aka Kath and Rhiannon. Was that to amp up the bogan factor? Sav - WHYYY?! I feel like we only just got her off our screens! Hopefully I'll be able to catch up with tonight's episode at some stage. :)

Hmm, I must be an Australian outlier because I definitely say "pah-sta" and "Slo-vah-kia", not to mention "cah-stle" rather than "cass-tle"!

Giving some love to the discus gold medal winner, Roje Stona from Jamaica 😍

She certainly is. And apparently when she's not pole vaulting, she can be found on Only Fans!

The Greek pole vaulter who got the bronze medal, Emmanouil Karalis, is quite a cutie!

Not just tainted beef, but AUSTRALIAN tainted beef. It was all part of our dastardly plan... I kind of do too. The swimmers mostly seem pretty friendly. For instance, he media have been trying to make out like Ledecky and Ariane Titmus hate each other but I don't get that vibe at all.

Our Aussie girl Nicola Olyslagers who got the silver is eccentric but lovable. She is a very devout pentecostal Christian and her pre-jump warm-ups look like she's in the middle of a church service at times. And when she's done with the jump she always, but always, goes and writes in a journal old school style. But very proud of her effort! 🥈

I took an instant dislike to Lyles and wanted the gorgeous Thompson to win. How agonisingly close!

The ink isn't to my personal taste and she seems very extra, but Sha'Carri Richardson is a beautiful lady.

I was just coming to post about her. Stunning!

So many things can go wrong in the Olympics! 😂

If Bobby Finke doesn't win the 1500m, it will be the first time a US man will not win an individual gold medal in swimming since the 1900 games in...Paris Until Cam McEvoy won the 50m free yesterday, Australia was in the same situation- you had to have a uterus to get gold! 🤣

I was trying to work out why the design on Germany's swimsuits looked kind of familiar...and then I caught a train to work the other day, one of a few in Brisbane Australia that have been painted up with designs by a local Indigenous artist!

Kishane Thompson, Jamaica, 100 metres. Phwoarr! 😍🤩

I am sad for him because it sucks to feel like you have let people down. 😔 The story behind Cam McEvoy's win is pretty amazing, though. He was expected to win a gold in Tokyo and instead finished 7th. He all but walked away from swimming but instead decided to get into fitness in a different way, lifting weights, gaining about 10kg etc. For fun one day He decided to jump in the pool and trial his 50m time and was amazed to see it was really good even though he hadn't been doing any swim training. So he has tried a completely different prep for these Olympics. When he used to swim at least 30km a week, now he does 3 but lifts weights, does a lot of resistance work, plyometric jumps etc. And the result is being the fastest freestyler over 50 metres at the ancient age of 30! Quite a comeback! 👏

I'm old enough to remember Nadia Comăneci's second Olympics in 1980 when at 18 (!!!) amongst all those little tiny girls (who in reality were probably older than they looked) she actually looked like a young woman. That was her last Olympics but if she were around now she would be just getting started!

Jules Bouyer from the French diving team. 😍 As for the second pic, #sorrynotsorry and you kind of can't unsee it once you see it!

Not only is he incredibly hot, but he seems really sweet too. When the Italian national anthem was playing after the medals were presented, he was trying to sing along but had tears in his eyes... awwwwww! And I don't care if I am old enough to be his nonna!

Kaylee's kind of awesome. She is very sweary, known for dropping an F bomb during a post-race interview a couple of years ago. Her "nerdy" glasses remind me of myself at her age when I was as blind as a bat and had to squint to read anything far away like she does after a race! (I'd still be blind as a bat if I wasn't now old enough to have had cataract surgery!) And she's got a huge will to win, even if she no longer owns the WR. I'm Australian so, US folk, please forgive this comment but (small voice) I actually love that the swimming medals are being shared around many different countries at this Olympics. It's nowhere near as interesting watching a total cakewalk where one country wins everything. For me, part of the excitement of sport comes from uncertainty of outcome. I'd even prefer the medals to be shared around than for Australia to win everything (not that I'm displeased that our women in particular are doing so well, mind you!) And it's also great to see a new guard of great swimmers emerging like Leon Marchand. I never thought I'd see the equal of Michael Phelps in terms of dominance across multiple strokes, but in Leon Marchand that's exactly what we're seeing.

Well, blow me down - Nat won! 🤯🤯🤯 I did NOT see that coming at all. Not for a second did I ever believe she would be the one they chose. Not even when the first thing we saw in the first episode of the season was a long, loving montage of Nat doing skate-y things, Nat and her tatts, Nat talking about her alternative lifestyle and cultural confusion. Not even when she won the only immunity pin on offer for the season. Not even when she made mistakes and the judges turned themselves inside out trying to find ways to excuse them. No, this evening's episode was a massive shock from which it'll take me a while to recover. In all seriousness, the egregious favouritism from day dot actually got me to a point where I WANTED Pezza to win and was actually quite sad for him that he didn't. And I cannot believe I just typed that! Well, folks, whilst feeling nearly as disappointed with this season as I did with the last one and the pre-destined win of Brent Draper, I will miss chatting about the show with you lovely people and no doubt, being the masochist that I am, will line up again to go through it all next year when I hope they find a winner I LIKE. Man, it's been a while since that's happened!

Yes, it was hard not to notice the 🍈🍈 were out there again. 😂

I reckon as soon as she saw the second place in the finale was between her and Nat, Sav realised she was screwed. But fair enough, too. She started off seeming really organised and then the wheels fell off big time. I think the result was a little bit of karma, too, because when the judges were trying to tell her she needed to hurry up a bit she was quite rude to them. Coles Shill was trying to be warm and cuddly tonight as opposed to his last appearance on the show, but I'm not convinced. I hate to say it but Pezza's first two dishes actually did look good, especially the main. And even if he didn't exactly push the boat out with his dessert, at least it didn't have any errors in execution. I'm pretty sure that if anyone else but Nat had served up that dessert with the hard as a rock pie crust, the judges would have roundly condemned it as a terrible error but since they can't bear to criticise their pet, they were again trying so hard to be positive about it. It almost makes me want Pezza to win (I said almost!) but he won't - I'm still convinced of this.