01: From The Cliffs to the Kitchen - Competitive Cookery shows

Allow us to love the contestants (P.S. no need to jump off cliffs)

Now that Future Food Stars has seen Gordon Ramsay quite literally force contestants to jump off Cornwall cliffs into the actual Atlantic Ocean minutes into its first episode, the shift in what makes food-based, competition format reality TV tick has really taken place. So, can we just over-analyse the Snorlax that is MasterChef UK for a minute? Thanks. 

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