{"id":773097,"date":"2026-09-17T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773097\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:22:15","slug":"john-torode-shares-heartbreaking-lisa-faulkner-cancer-update-after-turbulent-masterchef-exit-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773097\/","title":{"rendered":"John Torode shares heartbreaking Lisa Faulkner cancer update after turbulent MasterChef exit: ‘Changed everything’"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Torode has spoken out about how his wife Lisa Faulkner’s breast cancer diagnosis has “changed absolutely everything”.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old actress and television cook revealed her diagnosis in July, disclosing she had already undergone surgery for early-stage breast cancer and would be proceeding with radiotherapy.<\/p>\n

The couple have faced a difficult period, with Mr Torode losing his long-standing MasterChef role and their ITV show John & Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen reportedly facing the axe.<\/p>\n

Despite these setbacks, Mr Torode made clear his wife’s health eclipses all other concerns.<\/p>\n

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John Torode has opened up about wife Lisa Faulkner’s breast cancer diagnosis<\/p>\n

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Speaking to The Times, the chef reflected on the upheaval the couple have faced. <\/p>\n

“Life changes, doesn’t it?” he said. <\/p>\n

“When doors close, something else opens up. It takes time; grieving takes time, but it has got to be about your positive attitude.”<\/p>\n

He added: “But the most important thing to me is health and being with my wife, Lisa, and if I have that, everything else pales into insignificance.”<\/p>\n

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The chef said his wife’s health has made ‘everything else pale into insignificance’<\/p>\n

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Ms Faulkner herself offered an equally striking account of how the diagnosis had reshaped her outlook.<\/p>\n

“Cancer comes along and knocks you again, and you suddenly realise that none of the other stuff matters,” she told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

“It feels like you are suddenly in a film of your life. Your life is stark. You suddenly realise what is important and the rest goes out of the window.”<\/p>\n

When Ms Faulkner broke the news to her followers on Instagram Stories in July, she explained her absence from social media had been due to the operation. <\/p>\n

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Lisa Faulkner revealed she had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer<\/p>\n

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“I had surgery two weeks ago; it was quite a big op, but it’s all good, and I’ve got my results back, and they’ve got everything out,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

The former EastEnders star confirmed she had been given the all clear and would need radiotherapy in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

She used the moment to deliver an urgent message to other women. <\/p>\n

“I just wanted to say don’t put them off, go, because they found this and without that mammogram it wouldn’t have been picked up,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

The actress expressed deep gratitude towards the NHS for providing accessible mammograms and early treatment, and thanked fans whose messages of support had “really touched” her.<\/p>\n

The health battle represents the latest in a series of difficult blows for the couple.<\/p>\n

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The couple married in 2019 after meeting on Celebrity MasterChef<\/p>\n

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Mr Torode was dropped from MasterChef after an allegation he used racist language was upheld as part of an investigation into the programme.<\/p>\n

But the chef said he had \u201cno recollection\u201d of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Torode has spoken out about how his wife Lisa Faulkner’s breast cancer diagnosis has “changed absolutely everything”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[830,96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}