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How Alex Crisp’s MasterChef Australia run ended
PerthNow reported that Crisp departed on the Tuesday night before its 18 June 2024 story, having made the competition’s final nine. Network Ten’s official elimination article names the preceding challenge as Hugh Allen’s Banksia Pod pressure test.
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The placement is described differently in the two accounts: PerthNow calls it the “final nine,” while Crisp told Network Ten that reaching the “top 10” was one of her goals. She said she had already achieved what she set out to do: enjoy the competition, make friends, test herself, compete in an immunity challenge, cook Danish and South African food, and reach the top 10.
Who is Alex Crisp?
Network Ten’s contestant biography described Crisp as a 27-year-old Western Australian sales representative raised in Fremantle, with Danish and South African family roots. PerthNow’s profile also portrayed her as a home cook whose professional work was in fine-food sales.
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Her interest in cooking began early: Network Ten says she chose a Jamie Oliver cookbook for her ninth birthday. Crisp later admired Oliver’s straightforward, repeatable home recipes and Rick Stein’s food programmes. She described learning by cooking after work, saying, “I feel like I am an Olympic athlete in training.”
From home cooking to a public food role
In her PerthNow interview, Crisp encouraged people to approach food with curiosity rather than obligation: “Don’t look at food as a chore. Look at it as inspiration for a challenge.” She spoke about WA seafood and local ingredients, and floated the idea of a future dining venture pairing local food and wine. That was an aspiration, not an announced restaurant.
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Her connection to WA food events continued after the television competition. The Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia’s 2024/25 annual report records Crisp’s appointment as its inaugural Food and Beverage Ambassador. It says she demonstrated recipes using award-winning WA produce at the 2024 Perth Royal Show, which drew 438,600 visitors across eight days, according to the Society. That attendance figure describes the event, not Crisp’s individual audience or impact.
A PerthNow / Western Suburbs Weekly report published on 28 September 2026 later identified Crisp as a RASWA ambassador and a judge for the Perth Royal Show’s Snack Showdown. She said the judges looked for food that was “creative and delicious” while retaining “a sense of Perth Royal Show nostalgia,” with flavour, creativity and the “show food factor” among their considerations.
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- PerthNow profile and interview, 18 June 2024
- Network Ten contestant profile
- Network Ten elimination article
- Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia annual reports
- PerthNow / Western Suburbs Weekly, 28 September 2026
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