Melissa Leong: Guts

The former judge of MasterChef Australia discusses her new searing memoir of food, fame and the dark side of the hospitality industry.

A Gold Logie-nominated TV personality and food icon, Melissa Leong has become a household name through MasterChef Australia. In this unmissable conversation at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, she discusses her evocative, darkly funny and often brutal account of what it's like to try, fail and scrape together the confidence to try again.

In her new memoir Guts, she details the people, events and meals that have shaped her life – from her struggles with racism and identity as a first-generation Singaporean Chinese woman, to confronting the realities of a flawed hospitality industry, to finding her voice and doing things her own way.

Settle in as Leong chats self-belief, the power of vulnerability and life in the public eye – with reflections on some mouth-wateringly memorable food – with host, Associate Editor of Sunday Life Melissa Singer.