Born in WA, Kellie grew up in the UK and Bahrain. Following an International Hospitality degree and a stint cooking in the French Alps, she moved to London and set up her catering company, ‘Saffron’, cooking and teaching in the UK, Spain, France and Monaco.

Kellie moved to Australia in 2002 to work for the Australian Women’s Weekly, originally as a senior home economist developing recipes and then as the Test Kitchen manager. She presented segments on Fresh TV, held radio interviews and toured the country doing cooking demonstrations on the AWW National Road Train tour.

From there she moved to New Idea, as Deputy Food Editor, before editing the MasterChef Cookbook Vol 1, Our Family Table by Julie Goodwin and collaborating with Spanish chef Miguel Maestre on his first cookbook.

She has been consulting for the Cerebos food group, working with MasterChef magazine, developing recipes for brands such as Coles, Sunbeam, Lindt and Hardy’s wine and regularly appears on Natascha Moy’s radio show Food in Focus, discussing seasonal produce and fabulous recipes..

Kellie has recently moved to Channel 7 as the Food Editor for the second series of My Kitchen Rules.