Trash talking travellers Chloe and Kelly are through to the My Kitchen Rules grand final after rolling the show's good guys Paul Bullpitt and Blair Tonkin.
Bullpitt and Tonkin were one of the more polite and level-headed teams on the Seven Network series but they fell short in Sunday night's semi-final.
Chloe and Kelly, who have boasted about travelling to 40 different countries, won the semi-final 47 to 46.
They'll now meet the winner of Monday night's second semi, between SA mum Jessica and Bree and Melbourne twins Helena and Vikki, in Tuesday's grand final.
The winner of the series receives $250,000.
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Chloe and Kelly and the twins have locked horns during the series with each team prepared to snipe at the other during the private interviews.
Bullpitt said he knew there was tension between the two female teams during the taping of the series but did not realise how deep the division was until he started watching the show.
He said Chloe and Kelly may be competitive but they may now wish they had re-thought their tactics following a backlash on social media.
"I wonder whether they thought they'd be funny or whether they thought it would come across better and I'm not sure if they gave it a great deal of thought," Bullpitt told AAP.
"For Chloe and Kelly it has really backfired.
"The amount of crap they have copped on social media, I think if they could live life in retrospect they would live life quite differently."
Tonkin and Bullpitt are Gold Coast school teachers and made a pact not to get embroiled in any controversy or sledge their opponents.
Tonkin said it's not their style to bait people or be nasty and says he was surprised the way some teams approached the competition.
Not the least Vikki and Helena and Chloe and Kelly who could be facing-off in the grand final.
"We knew it was there (tension) but we didn't realise how nasty they were getting (in their private interviews)," Tonkin told AAP.
"We knew they didn't like each other as much and knew they weren't best mates, but some of the things they said have blown us away."
Bullpitt and Tonkin applied to appear on MKR a couple of years ago and got down to the final auditions but missed out.
They didn't apply for this season but received a call from the producers, asking if they would like to audition again.
Bullpitt said their My Kitchen Rules appearance has been a vehicle to drive positive conversations about food among the students.
Some school children have asked to have recipes from the show printed out while others have brought food to school that was inspired by the cooking series.
"It's basically given me an opportunity to talk to kids about something different like food and it was only two weeks ago I had 10 kids asking me to print recipes out," Bullpitt said.
"It's a really good avenue to open up conversations about healthier types of food."
