Tonight is the season finale for MasterChef on Fox at 9p and one of the final two contestants was actually eliminated from the show. 6’11” Josh Marks was actually eliminated midway through the run of the season and then he got a phone call that changed everything. Last week I was on a conference call with him and I asked him what that was like. He said, “Well, I didn’t know I was coming back to compete. I thought I was coming back to cheer. They said we were coming for some press and media stuff, so I was under the impression that I wasn’t competing anymore.”
As we know he competed with several other eliminated contestants and won his way back on to the show and into the finals. So does he feel he deserves to be up there with fan favorite Christine Ha? He said, “It just feels right, because my elimination to me I felt like it was the bad situation, but I feel like I proved myself leading up to my elimination, and even after my elimination, I deserved to be there no matter what anybody says.” You know I actually thought about what he said, and I think he is right. He was the only Chef who constantly took a risk by changing up what he was given and Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot all enjoyed what he served them. I might be Team Christina, but he definitely earned the right to be in the final two and we will have to tune in to see if an eliminated contestant could actually win the whole thing…
