My feelings towards Chucky are ambivalent
a) his shininess makes my skin crawl
b) his boiled sweet eyes seem to drag my soul into the very depths of Hell
c) his manner in the kitchen (when working with other chefs) seesaws between Uriah Heep-type grovelling to the Greats, and verging-on-bullying impatience with the other contestants (or seemed to, rather - he is less irritable of late)
d) his conceit, arrogance and smugness are of mammoth proportions
e) not a team player
BUT
d) he is obviously thrilled with his fiancee and their baby (can't dislike a guy for adoring his family)
f) he can't help his looks - we are all the way God made us
g) he IS a very good cook
h) he has lately shown some really nice team playing behaviour
AND - BIG one this -
i) he has no time at all for Gregggg and largely ignores his inanities and just walks through him if he's in the way in the kitchen. (This is almost enough to send me starry-eyed if I'm honest . . . )
I have come to the conclusion that he was not a popular child at school - maybe even bullied for his shininess and his boiled-eyeballs; he therefore never really learned how to share or how to be part of a team.
He compensated for this by withdrawing and becoming very stand-offish and determined to be really, really good at what he did so that he could feed his ego with his success. He has triumphed in this and is an outstanding private chef (doesn't need to experience the unspoken criticisms and sniggers of the big boys if he's working on his own) and can go home to Lochdhu and feel that bit better about himself, but is still a little dead inside . . . 
He then met a woman and she loves him (I know - there's no accounting for taste 
). And it's made the world of difference - he has a baby now and wants to do everything he can to make that baby proud of him. (I thought this was quite an interesting comment, actually - it was a few weeks ago he said this.)
He has, for the first time, experienced an atmosphere of camaraderie - genuine camaraderie - in the kitchen. You could see how in the beginning, when they were all hugging each other, he didn't join in - now he does; he's awkward, but it's there. I wonder if this is the first time he's really felt part of a group - if he hasn't felt that all the jokes and banter are personally directed at him? This seems to have been a very positive experience for him. It will be interesting to see if he can lose with good grace. And, without being nasty, I hope that he does - not only because I love Oli and want him to win, (but certainly wouldn't mind if Laurence pipped him the post), but I think Chucky needs to learn that you can be not-the-best at something, and still be very worthy - and a very good human being. He doesn't have to be driven and"successful". to be someone his family can love and be proud of.