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Cat McGibbon

Cat McGibbon

Scottish chef, 2025 HIT Scotland Scholarship winner, and champion of ITV's The Heat culinary competition

Jul 7, 2026

13:12
the next step? Yeah.
13:14
Yeah.
13:14
So when I, um, I was in college, and I was looking for a part-time commis chef position at the time, and it was really hard for me as a commis to get a job.
13:24
Because everybody, every restaurant or every place looks for a commis with experience, and I was a commis with no experience, and they weren't willing to give me experience to get experience.
13:36
And I found it completely mind-blowing, because I'm so passionate and willing and I, I said I, I would be like a sponge.
13:43
You know, I would absorb every information that you give me, and I will do the best ability of it as I can and be curious and ask questions and make mistakes, but learn from them.
13:53
But it was really hard to secure a position that would allow that for me, and I fell really luckily into Virgin's hands, and they...

19 MINS LATER

32:32
Is, are you at liberty to share the toughest moment in the competition when you kind of maybe thought, "Wow, I don't know that I can get there"?

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