‘I don’t want to leave anything on the table’: Melissa Leong brings the freelancer mindset to network TV
Food writer and critic Melissa Leong was on television this week, judging whether or not a dessert dish successfully incorporated ‘movement’ into its design. As she tells Mumbrella, her freelancer backgrounds means that one day she’ll be commenting on snap-peas and the next commentating snap-kicks.
“You know what? I do what I’m told,” Leong tells Mumbrella. “I get to do these dream jobs and when people say, ‘let’s do it again’, you just say, ‘yes’ and you jump in.”
Leong is talking about the admirable position she was placed in at the start of 2023 when — before the first season of her next show, Dessert Masters, had even aired — a second season was commissioned for 2024.
