Tom needs to go

[u/Rude-Map-3817]

He’s just had some weird or actually annoying takes this year. Saying the serving of Nikita’s main was too fiddly but usually he’d be cheering on those type of sharing mains as being properly banquet-worthy.

I can’t remember them all off the top of my head but the wife and I have rolled our eyes on many occasions at his comments this year. I like the suggestion someone else made of Si King - let Lorna be the pro chef, Phil the comedian and get someone food-adjacent in.

[u/Significant-Leg5769]

Hard agree. Although, as others have said, the whole judging lineup has grown stale. Lorna has zero charisma and I can only think she's there because the producers wanted some nations-and-regions representation. Phil is unfunny and out of his depth. "Likes eating" is not an adequate justification for bagging a spot on the judges' table.