John Torode’s wife Lisa Faulkner says ‘I don’t know why people are interested in us’
Lisa Faulkner has opened up about her marriage with celebrity chef, John Torode, who has recently been sacked from MasterChef after being accused of using a racist term09:35, 20 Jul 2025Lisa Faulkner says she doesn’t know why people are ‘interested’ in her and husband, John Torode Since their romance blossomed on Celebrity MasterChef 15 years ago, Lisa Faulkner and John Torode have become a beloved fixture on British TV cooking programmes.The couple exchanged vows at the 17th-century country estate Aynhoe Park in 2019, and there’s something about them as a duo, beyond their evident culinary prowess, that people find endearing. The one individual who seems perplexed by their popularity – and she articulates this in the most gracious manner – is Lisa herself. “I honestly have no idea about why there’s such interest,” she admits, chuckling.”I don’t read anything about us, I certainly don’t have Google alerts set up or anything. The closest I’ve come to it is probably at food shows or when people stop us in the street and say, ‘Oh we love you two’, or that they love the shows.Lisa and John married in 2019(Image: More