If Yvie Jones had her way, she would have been on a factory conveyer belt, wolfing down chocolate, in this season of Snackmasters.
Sadly for her, the idea was knocked back. “Like, ‘Can I get on the conveyer belt?’ Answer: ‘No, you can’t,'” the 50-year-old tells TV WEEK with a laugh.”But if I could have, I would.”
As the show’s “snack detective”, visiting factories to see how Australia’s favourite treats are made, Yvie was allowed to taste-test anything she liked straight off the conveyor belt – something she did “a lot”.
If Yvie Jones had her way, she would have been on a factory conveyer belt, wolfing down chocolate, in this season of Snackmasters.
(Image: Nine)“And I was always approving, funnily enough!” she says. “By the end of the day I was pretty sick, every day.”
Fronting Snackmasters isn’t what Yvie imagined doing when she and her friend Angie Kent first sat together on the Gogglebox Australia couch in 2015.
“Honestly, the first season of Gogglebox, we didn’t think it would last more than two episodes,” she says. Eight seasons later, when the friends quit the popular show, Yvie knew she wanted to do more TV. She says she feels “very lucky” to have scored the gigs she has, including the Snackmasters role, which she shot a video audition for during COVID lockdown in Melbourne.
As the show’s “snack detective”, Yvie was allowed to taste-test anything she liked straight off the conveyor belt “a lot”.
(Image: Nine)“I went to Coles and went, ‘This is my pantry’ – the lolly aisle – and they [the producers] said, ‘You’ve got the job.'”
As snack detective, Yvie feels she’s learnt a lot this season about how snack food is produced. “I was watching real cheese go into the Cheezel mix and thought, ‘Really? Real cheese?’ It was amazing.”
She’s even discovered a tasty new snack: Jumpy’s.”Jumpy’s weren’t around when I was a kid, so I went mad for them that day. I thought, ‘What is this snack? It tastes like two-minute noodles!'”
Next year, viewers can expect to see more of Yvie on screen. She’s shot a role in Pauly Fenech’s new comedy show, as well as the Amazon original series Deadloch, where she appears alongside Kate Box, Madeleine Sami and Tom Ballard.
“Acting with these people was a dream come true,” she says. “More of that, please.”
Yvie’s even discovered a tasty new snack: Jumpy’s.”Jumpy’s weren’t around when I was a kid, so I went mad for them that day. I thought, ‘What is this snack? It tastes like two-minute noodles!'”
(Image: Nine)
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