Jennifer Evans is being portrayed as an evil princess in the top rating show, and the knives are already out.

So can she handle the heat she's created in the kitchen?

The new season of My Kitchen Rules is out, and the knives are being sharpened, but it's not the food that's copping the heat. Rather it’s the contestants, and one in particular, that’s copping a lot of flak.

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So just what is the substance behind the Jennifer Evans’s ‘yeahs’?

Watch My Kitchen Rules and the impression you get of Evans is hardly endearing.

“When all the cameras are on you, and people are looking at you being quiet, and waiting for you to say things, and you got nothing else to say, I don’t know what to say. So I say ‘yeah’” Evans admitted.

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It is pretty hard not to get the impression that she isn’t pretentious, and a bit of a princess.

“I don't know what the ‘princess tag’ is all about. I don't think it's 100 per cent the real me,” Evans said.

“In the TV business, you know how the editors cut and paste things together. What about all the good things I said? They didn't show that,” she said.

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So does television selectively edit for a particular effect? Well, yes, according to the Sunday Telegraph's Entertainment Writer Jonathon Moran. He says all good TV needs a villain.

“You've got to have these nasty characters. They're not necessarily nasty in their real life, but they have something, or say something that resonates, and people relate to it,” Moran said.

Celebrity apprentice had Deni Hines. Idol have Simon Cowell, and everyone's had Kyle Sandilands, or had enough of him … but generally we never tire of a little drama.

“There has to be conflict in reality TV, otherwise no one is going to watch. What's the point in watching something where everyone sits around watching the grass grow? Really, you need to have some fighting, you need to have some drama,” Moran said.

But don't feel sorry for TV’s purveyors of bitchiness and bastardry. It's good for their careers.

“She's getting out there, and we know who she is. She's a princess. It comes under her name on the supers so we know who she is, and that's a good start for a show that's only just started airing,” he said.

With a Thai background, Evans has the cooking tradition to kill, but will her abrasiveness count against her? Not according to MKR judge Manu Feildel
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“She is a great girl. She's got a great sense of humour. We had a lot of fun shooting together and around the table,” he said.

Chef and judge on the program, Feildel admits it is early days, but says that we could all learn to like Evans, and she has the goods to win.

“She’s got talent, and she wouldn't be on the show if she wasn't good enough. At the end of the day, she's got an opinion, a point of view, and is a great cook. She knows what she's talking about, and she should be saying what she thinks,” he concluded

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