John Torode and Lisa Faulkner have been delighting fans on screen with their popular cooking show, John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen on ITV for years. But while fans definitely see them withstanding the heat every weekend, little is known about their lives out of the kitchen. The pair's love story began a few years after they first crossed paths on 2010's MasterChef, where Lisa, a contestant, served her dishes to John, one of the judges.
Despite their chemistry, which fans pointed out at the time, both were in other relationships. Lisa was previously married to actor Chris Coghill, and they share an adopted daughter, Billie. John was married to a woman named Jessica in 2000, and they shared a son and a daughter.
John and Jessica separated in 2011 but didn't officially split until 2014 in a quickie divorce. "He was a judge on a show I loved, and I was petrified of him," Lisa, now 51, admitted. Despite the sparks flying, she insisted, "I didn’t see anything but food for three months.
" Australian-British John asked Lisa out in 2013, when they were both single, but so did in an old school, and unconventional way — by writing her a letter. Reflecting on that, Lisa, who told the Daily Mail: " “John and I were friends. Neither of us thought of it as anything else until.
.. I don't know how things change, but something does.
He asked me on a date, and then it was slightly different." Lisa recalls how John's letter asking her out was a pivotal moment. John himself has admitted it w.