MasterChef's John Torode's love life from co-star marriage to 'cowardly' move
03.12.2023 - 06:33
/ ok.co.uk
John Torode, the straight-talking judge on MasterChef, has had quite a journey in love. From a quick divorce to marrying his co-star from MasterChef, Lisa Faulkner, his love life has been full of twists and turns. John, 58, and Lisa, 51, both have previous marriages.
Lisa was married to Chris Coghill, known for his role as Tony King in EastEnders, and they adopted a daughter named Billie. John, on the other hand, was married to a woman named Jessica with whom he shares two children. The couple met when Lisa was a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef.
They became friends and eventually fell in love.
However, Lisa insists there was nothing romantic between them initially as they were both in other relationships at the time. "He was a judge on a show I loved and I was petrified of him. He was brilliant and gave us all tips so you didn't want to let him down," she previously said, according to The Mirror.
"All I could think was, 'That sauce hasn't worked'. I didn't see anything but food for three months. After I won, we did The Good Food Show and stuff.
John and I always got on, but I never thought about me and him." Revealing how they eventually got together, Lisa told the Daily Mail in 2013 that everything changed after John wrote her a letter and asked her out to dinner. "John and I were friends. Neither of us thought of it as anything else until..." she said.
"I don't know how things change, but something does. He asked me on a date. We went out for dinner.
Then it was slightly different.