![]() ![]() MAdE, which had 22 companies, collapsed in February 2020 after being ordered by the Fair Work Ombudsman to pay workers $7.8million in unpaid penalty rates.Ĭalombaris was personally hit with a $200,000 penalty for the wage rorts but always insisted the underpayments were simply a mistake he blamed on inexperience. The announcement followed revelations Calombaris' restaurant empire had underpaid its employees by nearly $8million.Įx-MasterChef judge George Calombaris fell from grace three years ago after he lost his hospitality company MAdE Establishment to liquidators. ![]() Preston and Mehigan jumped ship to Seven, where they hosted the short-lived cooking show Plate of Origin alongside My Kitchen Rules star Manu Feildel. The judges were hoping for a 40 per cent pay rise, which would have seen them earn $1.5million each for a 'guaranteed two years', but the network wouldn't budge The trio, who had been on MasterChef for 11 years, exited the show after Ten refused to give them a salary increase. ![]()
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