The no-fuss food judge has all the ingredients to be a successful parent.
From the outside, George Calombaris’s house is just like any other in the stylish Melbourne street he calls home – but once you step through the front gate it’s immediately obvious this is the home of the popular MasterChef judge.
Even before George throws open the door and meets us with his trademark gusto, we’ve been greeted by the enticing smell of the breakfast he’s rustling up for us. Inside, a second smiling face welcomes us into the sunny home – George’s partner of four years, Natalie Tricarico, proudly sporting a blossoming baby bump.
“Doesn’t she look beautiful?” beams George, 32, before ducking into the kitchen and returning with coffee and a round of buttery raisin toast. “She looks fantastic… absolutely beautiful. “She’s healthy and happy and everything is chugging along wonderfully.”
Marketing manager Natalie, 33, is clearly not the only one who’s glowing. “There’s this amazing sort of connection that happens knowing we created something together, and that’s a really lovely thing,” George enthuses.
The only downside to Natalie’s pregnancy is that she no longer craves George’s celebrated cuisine.
“The only thing I’ve craved has been lemonade icy poles, and that was only in the first trimester,” Natalie laughs. “I lost my taste for coffee and alcohol straight away, even though I have always loved red wine. The icy poles were great – they were so soothing and I loved that. I haven’t craved anything else, so George is off the hook.”
Natalie has enjoyed a straightforward pregnancy right from the day she took a test at home, and discovered she and George would soon have a Junior MasterChef of their own.
“I hadn’t noticed any of the normal changes in my body that I would normally get around that time of the month,” she remembers. “I thought it was weird because I have always been on time – although, I had been through something similar once before and found out I wasn’t pregnant. But I did the test that afternoon and it was positive.
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