She's Back! Doylestown Native Returns to 'MasterChef'

Doylestown native Bri Kozior is back on "MasterChef," FOX's primetime cooking show.

The 22-year old Central Bucks graduate made it into the show's final eight before getting knocked out of the running on the July 24 episode.

But Kozior got a second chance Wednesday, when judges allowed one contestant back into the competition. During the episode, three of the eliminated contestants competed and Kozior won her spot back on the show.

“IM BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,” Kozior posted on her Facebook page.

Kozior, a 2008 Central Bucks graduate and vegetarian, has managed to impress the judges and her fellow competitors with both her meat and non-meat dishes.

Kozior, a theater assistant, said she auditioned on a whim after encouragement from friends. “I took a big chance,” she told Patch in an interview in June.

Auditions for the show were held in New York in November. More than 30,000 others joined her in the nationwide auditions.

She was selected as one of the top 100 cooks and auditioned in front of the celebrity judges. Just 19 out of those 100 finalists made it through to be featured on the show, which was taped in Los Angeles.

The winner of the show gets their own cookbook, $250,000, and—as the show's judges say, "most importantly"—the title of MasterChef.

"MasterChef" airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on FOX.