Colin Fassnidge and Manu Feildel team up for new show
With the 2024 season of My Kitchen Rules coming to a close, Colin Fassnidge and Manu Feildel have teamed up for a brand new show.
At their annual Upfronts event, Channel Seven announced that the pair will host a show called Off The Grid in 2025.
Speaking exclusively to Yahoo Lifestyle, Colin reveals that the series is an “off-the-beaten-path food adventure” where he and Manu travel around New Zealand for a month in a caravan.
“We did the North Island and the South Island, and it was sort of like a chef’s dream scenario where you get to shoot, fish and hunt,” he details. “We did a lot of cooking with the Māori people, Manu and I got tattoos which wasn’t planned, I managed to split my head open - you’ll have to watch the series for that one.”
The Irish chef explains that Off The Grid was a long time in the making, and was filmed “a few months ago” in between production for MKR Australia and MKR New Zealand.
“We’ve been talking to Seven about it for years, just getting on the road,” he shares. “Manu had an idea to do a thing called ‘A Big Lap Around Australia’ and no one wanted to do it, but when we were in New Zealand I said, ‘We should do it in a caravan’. It was Manu’s idea, but I made it better."
“We saw this little caravan in the garden one day when we were shooting MKR over there and we said, ‘Wouldn't it be great to do it in a 1960s caravan?’. We sent it to the producer of Screentime in New Zealand, who works very closely with Channel Seven, and he said, ‘Let’s make it happen’, and then Seven jumped on board.”
Off The Grid is set to air early next year on Channel Seven before the fifteenth season of MKR premieres, with Colin saying, “I’ve just seen the teaser for it and it looks amazing.”
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