I Cook For A Living; I'm Not

If You Become A Chef Because You're Obsessed By Becoming A Celebrity, Getting My Ass Kicked And Working My Nuts Off The Way I Did In France And Getting Pushed Around Those Kitchens Wasn't About Becoming Famous.

How Are These People Deserving Huge Payouts For Losing Weight When They Should Have Done It Without The Camera Or Without A Team Helping Them? Then, Six Months Later You Go Back And Find Out Where They Are, And They're In A Worse State Than They Were In Before They Joined The F - Ing Show. Then They Blame The Producer.

Everything I Learned And Didn't Do In New York I Would Put Into Place Here In The London West Hollywood. It's Fascinating, When You Look At The Critics' Reviews, And We Had A Great One In The New York Observer And All That, And Then The New York Times Came And It Was A Devastation; Two Stars Out Of Four. They Said That I Played Safe Because It Wasn't Fireworks. Then They Judged The Persona Over The Substance That Was On The Plate.

I Think, To Chelsea's [handler] Point, I Still Need Directing Because Sometimes I Go A Little Bit Off Beat In A Way That It's Like, Rein It In. I Welcome That Kind Of Support.

What You're Experiencing Now [on "masterchef," On "junior"] Is What Life's Going To Be Like For The Next Four, Five Decades. You're Going To Go Through Those Bumps. Bringing You Back In Contention And Giving You That Kind Of Confidence, They're Huge. But They Let It Go, There's No Fear, They're Naughty, They're Rude, And They Know There's No Parents And There's No School Teacher So They Can Have Fun, And It Shows.