About Matt Preston
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Big Mouth – Matt’s most recent book “Big Mouth” A rock’n’roll memoir of life, death and growing up with the occasional scandal. (Q&A – Conversational Format)
For a man who has been in the public eye for a decade or more, Matt Preston has been very quiet about his past and private life. Now, in Big Mouth, he opens up for the first time in a story that, like Matt himself, is joyous, funny and larger than life.
From his adoption, fractured childhood and shocking family tragedies, to his disastrous spell in the British Army, to a misspent youth and burgeoning journalistic career in 1980s London, to relocating to the other side of the world and finding love – Matt writes frankly about it all.
He relives the unexpected twists of fate that saw him become a household name on one of the most successful Australian TV shows of all time. Looking back at his eleven years of MasterChef Australia, Matt dishes up as only he could memorable moments and the ones he’d rather forget.
Naturally, food weaves its way through his story at every turn, from the exquisite to the dreadful, forming the backdrop to this gloriously eccentric memoir from one of the food world’s most beloved bons vivants.
Matt Preston categories:
Matt Preston is one of Australia’s most famous and loved personalities. An award-winning food journalist, best-selling cookbook author, ABC Radio presenter and international TV personality. You can tune in to hear Matt every week on ABC Radio hosting Saturday
Weekend Breakfast, and you can read his stories in Stellar, delicious and taste magazines. Matt’s most recent appearances were as a judge for The Food Networks USA, Taste Race and as a guest judge on Seven Networks MKR. He has also popped up as “The Gnome” on Network Ten’s The Masked Singer and Celebrity Gogglebox.
Matt writes a weekly column for Stellar in the News Corp metro mastheads with a reach of over 4 million Australians every week. He is also a senior editor for delicious. and taste magazines and contributes to one of the world’s best-read recipe websites, Taste with a monthly reach of 2 million food lovers.
As well as 11 seasons of MasterChef Australia, and four seasons of various format variants, Matt has also appeared on MasterChef Italia, MasterChef Holland, MasterChef India, MasterChef Poland and MasterChef NZ and Plate of Origin on Network Seven with long-term friends Gary Mehigan and Manu Feidel. He has also taken dramatic roles in Aftertaste, Neighbours, Offspring, Lowdown and The Bold & The Beautiful.
Over the last 15 years Matt has been a regular co-host and presenter for ABC Radio, Smooth FM, Nova, the Hit Network and Triple MMM.
Matt is also a key social media influencer in Australia and internationally with a combined international social media reach of over 1m followers on TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Matt has written eight cookbooks that have been best-sellers in Australia and overseas. And his TV appearances have reached an audience of 180 million people across 110 countries.
Matt is a board member and ambassador for SecondBite, Australia’s leading food rescue organization that aims to end hunger by ending waste. He also works with SCARF on their innovative program to deliver paid hospitality training to vulnerable refugee and migrant communities.
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