Lisa Faulkner has mastered the recipe for a good life thanks to John Torode
ACTRESS Lisa Faulkner has revealed her relationship with Masterchef judge John Torode is going well because he’s “so calm, chilled and lovely”.
The couple met when Lisa won Celebrity Masterchef in 2010 but it was a couple of years before they dated. “We’ve been friends for years then last year, both single, one day he just asked me out for a date. I just said, ‘Yeah, all right’ and it was one of those moments when we both started smiling.”
The 40-year-old mum of one had been married to fellow actor Chris Coghill but they divorced in 2011. John, 48, divorced his wife of four years the same year. “Our relationship is as quiet and private as it can be when you both work in television,” says Lisa, who has just published her book The Way I Cook… “I’m really happy but we’re not living together because we’re taking things slowly. I believe life goes in ups and downs and at the moment it’s such a nice time.”
Lisa, who adopted daughter Billie, seven, with Chris, also admitted to “a mental block about turning 40”.
“I’m a very emotional person. If I’m upset about something and things don’t go right I have to go down and then come back up, take stock and wait for the sun to come out again. I’ve learned that it always does.”