Business is booming! MasterChef’s Reynold Poernomo is ‘so excited’ to open the second level of KOI Dessert Bar in Sydney… after being engulfed in a homophobic scandal
He’s the MasterChef fan favourite tipped to be the one to beat on Channel Ten’s ratings juggernaut.
And it’s clear business is booming for Reynold Poernomo, despite the talented chef being engulfed in a homophobic scandal on a bodybuilding forum.
On Wednesday, the 26-year old revealed he was gearing up to open the second floor of his popular KOI Dessert Bar in Sydney on Thursday.
‘So excited to finally open upstairs tomorrow’: Masterchef contestant Reynold Poernomo gears up to open second level of KOI dessert bar
‘So excited to finally open upstairs tomorrow,’ Reynold said on Instagram Stories, panning the camera around the empty room.
The second floor featured lush velvet green sofas and plenty of seating to keep up with the dessert bar’s ever-growing popularity.
It comes after Reynold told Daily Mail Australia he was doing ‘very good’ despite his recent scandals and COVID-19 setbacks.
‘Business has been busy, I’m happy,’ Reynold said last month, shrugging off questions about the backlash against his homophobic comments from 2014.
Business is booming: ‘So excited to finally open upstairs tomorrow,’ Reynold said on Instagram Stories, panning the camera around the empty room
Six years ago, Reynold, using the profile name ‘reyreyy’, posted a shocking comment in a thread titled, ‘First gay couple featured on the Disney Channel. Do you agree with them?’
The then 20-year-old wrote: ‘I wish the world made a united decision where they will capture all gay people and put them on a remote island full of gays, that way straight [people] will be happy and the freaks can go on and f**k themselves.’
That comment was followed by another on a thread titled: ‘Is homosexuality a mental illness?’
‘Yes end of thread,’ Reynold responded.
‘Business has been busy’: It comes after Reynold told Daily Mail Australia he was doing ‘very good’ despite recent scandals and COVID-19 setbacks
Reynold later apologised for the hateful comments, telling Daily Mail Australia on May 29 that he was ‘deeply ashamed’ of the person he used to be.
‘I would like to offer my sincere and deepest apologies for the comments that I made in 2014. I am ashamed of these comments and I regret them immensely,’ he said.
‘At the time these comments were made, I was a very immature, close-minded and insular 20-year-old. I have grown and matured a lot in the last six years. I am not the person I was back then.’
Different man today: He later apologised for the hateful comments, telling Daily Mail Australia on May 29 that he was ‘deeply ashamed’ of the person he used to be