{"id":335471,"date":"2025-12-08T18:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335471\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:51:57","slug":"tongan-ex-nrl-player-will-mataka-just-won-tv-reality-show-my-kitchen-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335471\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongan ex-NRL player Will Mataka just won TV reality show &#8216;My Kitchen Rules&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the pressure cooker environment of the NRL to winning a reality TV cooking show, Tongan Will Mataka has had a crazy journey. Sam &amp; Tinirau hear about his Tongan food influences, how the end of his rugby league career led to being homeless and why the &#8216;My Kitchen Rules&#8217; win was a testament to hard work, persistence and family.<\/p>\n<p>As well, the boys wrap up a huge 2025 on our final show with an &#8216;All Star&#8217; team in both codes plus who will take out the &#8216;Gimme Three&#8217; crown and score themselves a pamper day or will it be another draw?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the pressure cooker environment of the NRL to winning a reality TV cooking show, Tongan Will Mataka&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,55690,19615,107988,761,762,158,159,85,18559,187069],"class_list":["post-335471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-homeless","tag-justin","tag-my-kitchen-rules","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-rugby-league","tag-sports","tag-tonga","tag-will-mataka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}