Age: 32
From: London, via Sri Lanka and Toronto, Canada.
Occupation: Head of Charity Investments
Cooking Style: "I would describe my cooking as Sri Lanka meets North America. I love using loads of different traditional Sri Lankan ingredients and spices and combining them with North American favourites such as fried chicken and shrimp with grits, bagels, cream cheese and onion chutney."
Why MasterChef?: "I entered MasterChef because I love cooking. I see it as a unique way to bring people together, as it did for me, and I wanted to share my style of food with everyone."
Ambition: "I see food as something that can bring people together. My dream is to host a series of themed pop-up dinners called 'The Elephant in the Room Dinners' where I would invite British people across the political spectrum together to have challenging conversations about different topics. I think really tasty food and drink helps to disarm people, allows them to bring their walls down, and engage with people in a way they often wouldn't. I would love to be able to start doing these pop-up dinners as a way to bridge divides."
MasterChef continues Thursday at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
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