‘MasterChef’ season 5, episode 14 preview: Did someone spike Leslie’s oatmeal?

Is Leslie to “MasterChef” what Zach is to “Big Brother”? We’re starting to wonder that after watching the new sneak peek from Monday night’s episode. Like Zach, Leslie is the most over-the-top and entertaining person on the show most of the time, and while we don’t think that he is going to win, we really don’t care. (Zach’s already eliminated, so clearly he’s out of the running.)

Leslie’s latest antics are somewhat hilarious just because of the following: It’s a Mystery Box Challenge (which he should be used to at this point), and yet he acts here almost like someone poured a vat of caffeine right into his mouth before getting started. The guy claims it is oatmeal (he claims it keeps him regular) that is the real culprit here, but he has that every morning.

The only reason that we wonder about Leslie’s chances of actually pulling off the victory here are because of the sole fact that there were some other contestants who consistently dominated the early and current part of the competition who are still there. Courtney and Elizabeth are the biggest threats, at least based on what we’ve seen and Leslie’s strategy to just follow Elizabeth last week.

Still, we wouldn’t complain if he came out on top just from the standpoint of entertainment. He’s already survived more Pressure Tests than anyone in history, so there is a certain never-say-die attitude about him that goes beyond the big personality and however he manages to get so much energy.