Colo Gianarelli after winning “Masterchef”: what he thinks of Eunice Castro and the dream of his own tea house

Ten thousand people follow the transmission of Luana On Instagram. It’s Tuesday, it’s just past 11:00 p.m. and in minutes the winner of Master Chef Celebrity. It is the last break and the recording studio is full of acquaintances among ex-participants, relatives and the Canal 10 team. No one wants to miss the final of the most watched program of the year.

The singer, like Ronnie Arias, Mariale Jaimes Y Enrique “Pelado” PenaThey capture the moment with their cell phones. Sarah Perrone takes photos and talks with his colleagues from Masterchef, while others send WhatsApp audios, and Martin Kesman gives a set of measuring cups to the youngest son of Eduardo “Colo” Gianarelli, who began to cry. There is a huge ruckus in the studio.

The only ones who stay in their places are the jurors Sergio Puglia, Ximena Torres Y Laurent Laine; Y the finalists Eunice Castro and “Colo” Gianarelli. The big moment arrives, the program returns and now it is live, so the production asks everyone in the studio for silence. The request is maintained until Puglia announces that Gianarelli is the winner of the third season of the cooking reality show, and then the screams, the videos, the photos and the hugs return.

Dale’s driver who goes and skit director Los Muchachos greets the cell phones that are placed in front of him, laughs and holds the trophy, which is very heavy. After the emotion, the affectionate greeting with his family, with his colleagues and the many selfies and messages, Gianarelli speaks with El País.

—How do you get rid of tonight’s anxiety?

“There are many emotions together, all good. I already passed the emotional part when we filmed my sister’s arrival and seeing my children enter. Now it was closing a divine cycle of happiness. Because it has been a divine year, and I was aware that nothing that happened could affect that. If it was my turn to win or lose, I was still going to celebrate with the family. That is what I am doing, now and with the happiness of having the trophy. So I finish it with tremendous happiness and tomorrow (for yesterday Wednesday) I go to work. At 7.40 I arrive at school and I’m going to take the trophy to make a little noise.

—I imagine that the celebration continues on Saturday in let it go.

—Yes, Saturday will be all happiness. The producers, Oscar and Jorge, are two parents who have given me this profession, and when they proposed me to be on the program I talked a lot with them. One of them had doubts, and I told him: “I’m going to win it”. So on Saturday I bring him the trophy. It’s just that I’m competitive and I knew that if I got into Masterchef I was going to give it my all. So I’m happy, and it’s amazing how loved you feel in here.

—When the ex-participants entered, the study became a party. Was it like this all season?

—What was seen live is what was experienced in all the recordings. So, it’s nice to come to cook, to work, because they were very long days and come with the happiness that when it was over you were going to be happy with life. And I would like to emphasize that this shows that quality television can be made in Uruguay, there are programs that put a lot of love into it. Some with more budget and others with less, but good television can be made, and there are good artists. I stay with that, with great joy and gratitude.

“Did you have any help?”

—I am grateful to the people at the Crandon, they are chefs who support you in those minutes to consult doubts that make it possible for one to enter safely. The same, then you have the time of the slogan and you don’t get the plate or Mengueche, it’s you against the clock. But they are an important support.

—You won several tests, you had the best dish several times and the “Hallelujah!” from Apulia. Were you confident for the final?

“Eunice was a very tough rival. She gave her everything, but she was the rival she didn’t want to have because she felt that we were different, that we had different strengths, and the proof is that she beat me for the main course, and I beat her for dessert. So he felt that he had to go to places where he was not very sure. It seems that the dessert got the better of the main course, and the order too, I think. I really enjoyed that hour and a half of cooking, and the last 30 minutes were full of stress, but happy. It was a difficult final and I didn’t see myself as the winner because I saw Eunice as very powerful. I want to win everything, sometimes you can’t, and sometimes the opposition is greater than one’s merit, but when I heard as a family about the things that had happened to Eunice, that’s when I began to take courage and think: “I can beat her” . And when they said “Colo” it was like when at the Italian Embassy, ​​tremendous happiness.

—With the impulse of this award, did you feel like setting up a gastronomic establishment?

‘Yes, not for a restaurant but for a teahouse. It’s a project that we have with my sister because she’s a big bad guy who works in the pastry shop as a hobby, because she has her own job, and for a long time I’ve been bothering her to open a tea house. This is one more boost, the fact that the pastry shop went well for me -I’m not going to cook in the teahouse, don’t worry, madam, other people are going to cook, not me- but we do want to open Colorin Colorado. So we are happy and it may be that Colorín Colorado will come, because this story has only just begun.