Lisa Faulkner admitted that her first impressions of her husband weren’t all that great.
The pair met properly in 2010 on , when John was judging and Lisa was a contestant. But they actually crossed paths before, on back in 1996.
Lisa confessed to Prima: “Everyone thinks we met on MasterChef, but we’d actually met before that on This Morning in 1996. John doesn’t remember! I thought he was a really fit chef.”
But meeting up again more than a decade later on the cooking show, Lisa admitted she was “terrified” of John – and what he might say about her food.
She said: “I was terrified of him, but when we got to know each other afterwards I realised he was a great laugh. Then he wrote me a letter to ask me out, which I thought was very sweet.”
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Lisa Faulkner had a horrifying impression of John Torode (Image: Getty)
The pair officially started dating in 2012, and tied the knot in 2019 after a sweet Christmas Day proposal. They’re currently co-parenting their five children from previous relationships; John has Jonah, Lulu, Marcel and Casper from previous romances, and Lisa shares daughter Billie with her ex-husband Chris Coghill.
Gushing over the moment John proposed, Lisa said: “We’d been together for about five years but I had no idea that it was coming. We were in India for Christmas, just the two of us, and we’d said we were only going to do small presents. I got him some yoga trousers and he got me an engagement ring!”
It comes after Lisa broke her silence following the scandal – but her post was nothing to do with the MasterChef judge. Instead, Lisa refrained from commenting and instead shared a tribute in remembrance of her nanna, writing: “Happy heavenly birthday Nanna, miss you so much.”
The pair first met in 1996 – but John doesn’t remember (Image: Getty)
Lisa has previously confessed that Gregg told “rude jokes”, admitting at the Cheltenham Literature Festival this year: “Gregg was telling – I’m probably not allowed to say this… Gregg just told rude joke after rude joke to the crew.
“You’re just sitting there and if you’re on the front bench just chopping away thinking, ‘I’ve got ten minutes left’, and he’s saying, ‘So this girl walked into a bar…’
“And I’m going, ‘Please, I don’t want to hear this joke.’”