Channel 7 TV show My Kitchen Rules food editor, Kellie Thomas and her filmmaker husband Pete Mether sold their North Balgowlah home for $1,405,000 under the hammer recently.
The three-bedroom house had been expected to sell for about $1.3 million according to selling agent Tim Wirth of LJ Hooker Seaforth.
Thomas, who is in her sixth season as food editor of the hit Channel Seven show, paid $751,500 in 2008.
Following her international hospitality degree, she moved to London and set up her catering company, Saffron, cooking and teaching in the UK and Europe.
Thomas moved to Australia in 2002 to work for the Australian Women’s Weekly, originally as a senior home economist.
From there she moved to New Idea, before editing the MasterChef Cookbook Vol 1, Our Family Table by Julie Goodwin and collaborating with Spanish chef Miguel Maestre on his first cookbook.
Thomas moved to Channel 7 as the food editor for the second series of My Kitchen Rules.