[Watch] Melissa Leong: Guts
Watch Gold Logie-nominated TV personality Melissa Leong as she discusses her searing new memoir 'Guts' with host Melissa Singer.
Melissa Leong has become a household name through MasterChef Australia. In this unmissable conversation at Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, she discusses her evocative, darkly funny and often brutal account of what it's like to try, fail and scrape together the confidence to try again.
In her new memoir 'Guts', she details the people, events and meals that have shaped her life – from her struggles with racism and identity as a first-generation Singaporean Chinese woman, to confronting the realities of a flawed hospitality industry, to finding her voice and doing things her own way.
Settle in as Leong chats self-belief, the power of vulnerability and life in the public eye – with reflections on some mouth-wateringly memorable food.
Originally presented on Wednesday 1 October 2025 by The Wheeler Centre, in partnership with Sofitel Melbourne On Collins.