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Celebrity chef George Kalambaris has been slapped with a fine for short-changing

restaurant staff almost 8 million dollars. The Master Chef Star has apologized promising to be an agent for change, but some former workers say they're still owed thousands.

Larna Murphy reports.

Hello, uh, Larna Murphy will not be reporting today.

Instead, you've got Zachary Ruane.

This is breaking news with Zachary Thomas

Rwain. And I'm Lana Murphy.

Hi Lana.

Hi, how are you?

I'm good, thank you. I don't know why you said I wasn't going to be a part of the program.

I took that a bit personally. I'm assuming the negative there, so I'm just going to hope in assuming the positive that maybe you just forgot I was here

even though I'm sitting next to you. Lana is a contributor to the Saturday paper and

wrote about George Columbaris's dodgy deals. That's right I did.

Yeah.

Tell me a little bit about what George was thinking when he did this deal.

I think he was thinking about his pocket.

Yeah. I think he was thinking about his pocket. Yeah. I think he was thinking about

his second or third mansion on on a on the on the on the mornington

peninsula. Now Lana you talked to George I did right before the trial what was his attitude at the time he was he would not stop talking about how

Chips were always in the original Savlaki. He just kept banging on about it. He kept going, nah, nah, they've been in there from the start, mate. It's not original Savlaki if you don't have chips in it, mate.

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