The eighth series of the Australian cooking game show MasterChef Australia premiered on 1 May 2016 on Network Ten.
Cecilia Vuong was chosen having previously been selected in series six, as she withdrew that year before the competition started because of complications from a brain injury.
The competition includes two siblings for the first time in MasterChef Australia; Jimmy Wong and Theresa Visintin.
Both finalists had struggles, with Elena having to remake her 'egg yolk' jelly and Matt his coconut panna cotta 'egg white'.
This led to Matt running out of time and not being able to seal the tempered chocolate egg shell in his dish, which split apart.