MasterChef: Back to Win star Laura Sharrad has revealed she will be opening a second restaurant in Adelaide.
The 25-year-old confirmed her post-show career plans to the Adelaide Advertiser, calling it an expansion of the Nido brand, her Italian eatery in the city.
‘It’s very very exciting, I guess it’s baby number two before an actual baby comes along,’ Laura told the publication.
‘It’s baby number two’: MasterChef star Laura Sharrad, 25, has leaked her exciting post-show plans – only a week before the season finale on Channel Ten. Pictured: Max Sharrad
Laura said the current restaurant she owns with her chef husband Max is regularly ‘booked out’ – which was great for the couple.
‘It’s one of those things that if the opportunity did arise, we’d definitely want to do it again and do something similar but a little bit different,’ she said, keeping coy.
She continued: ‘[In order to] kind of make it a little bit more niche.’
Owners: ‘It’s one of those things that if the opportunity did arise, we’d definitely want to do it again and do something similar but a little bit different,’ Laura said of the venture
Laura and Max own Nido, which the pair opened in April last year.
Laura will now battle it out with Callum Hann, Reynold Poernomo, and Emilia Jackson to win the $250,000 prize money during finals week.
It comes after Laura had a mini-meltdown on the show on Sunday night while acutely feeling the pressure of the competition.
Proprietors: Laura and Max own Nido, which the pair opened in April last year
Laura couldn’t contain her emotions as she prepared her lamb rack for six guest chef judges while speaking to Jock Zonfrillo.
‘I can’t have negativity. Otherwise I’ll crumble,’ admitting she was nervous at this stage of the competition.
She went on to explain while she looks calm on the outside, she was actually really struggling with the pressure.
Turmoil: ‘On the outside, I look really calm. But I am, like, inside, so scared. Like, the thought of going home on something… like, a dish like this,’ Laura said on Sunday night
‘On the outside, I look really calm. But I am, like, inside, so scared. Like, the thought of going home on something… like, a dish like this,’ she said.
She continued: ‘[My dish] is so simple in its nature, I think it would defeat me and I won’t have my goal to, you know, do one better, and to make the finale and to win.’
Laura then spoke of the pressure: ‘I’m cooking for my spot in this competition. I know how to cook. This is what I do every day.’
Honest: Laura added: ‘I just need to do it well. People say that winning isn’t all, but… I don’t know, I just have so much to prove’
She added: ‘I just need to do it well. People say that winning isn’t all, but I don’t know, I just have so much to prove.’
Despite her nerves, Laura managed to pull off the ‘childhood dish’, with her serving an impressive dish of peas, mint and lamb. She was safe and Reece Hignell was eliminated.
MasterChef: Back to Win continues Tuesday at 7.30pm on Channel Ten
Screening: MasterChef: Back to Win continues Tuesday at 7.30pm on Channel Ten. Pictured: (From left) Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo