As one of the gatecrasher teams being introduced on My Kitchen Rules this week, mother and daughter Janey Willox and Maddie Devereux are excited to join the show – but the other MKR teams are definitely not excited to see them.
“We didn’t realise the hostility we were about to walk into,” Janey says. Her daughter Maddie adds, “I think a few people may have been intimidated by us being the strong, confident, successful women that we are.”
The Melbourne pair, who run a recruitment firm, are longtime fans of the show. Janey watched it with her own mother when her father was terminally ill with cancer. “We’d come home from the hospital, I’d sit Mum down and we’d pop on MKR,” she remembers, tearfully.
Having the chance to compete on the show with her daughter was a dream come true. “That was just gold to spend that time with her,” Janey says. “We genuinely love being together!”
MKR Australia screens 7.30pm Mondays and Tuesdays, and 7pm Sundays on TVNZ 2, streaming on TVNZ+.
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