John Torode and Lisa Faulkner don't spend 'all their time' together despite TV show

TV star Lisa Faulkner has revealed that she's not with her husband and colleague John Torode all the time.

The former Brookside star, 52, has been married to the 59-year-old chef since 2019, and while the pair front John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen for ITV as well as writing a host of recipe books together, Lisa has now insisted that the time they have together in the studio is actually limited. In an interview with the Daily Express Sunday magazine, she said: "The thing is, we don't really work together very often."

She continued: "When we shoot our show, it's a 10-day shoot and obviously leading up to that we're writing recipes together, but usually we're sitting at different ends of the table, just writing or tapping away and then testing. But then John goes off to do MasterChef and I might be filming a series in Manchester. We don't spend all our time together. So when we do get to work together, it's lovely."

Lisa - who has carved out her own culinary career since winning Celebrity Masterchef in 2010 - also explained that the key difference between herself and John when it comes to cooking is that he has a much more "methodical" approach to things than she does, whilst she isn't quite so "neat" when whipping things up in the kitchen.

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She added: "He is very methodical. Obviously. He's a chef. Everything has an order. When he cooks, it's all very, very neat. Whereas when I cook, I think I'm neat but I'm not. With John, everything has its order and place. He's got the plates out and everything. If we have people over on a Sunday afternoon, on Sunday morning all the plates are out, ready. Everything's sorted. So he knows what's going on."

The couple - who have just released their first cookbook together, John And Lisa's Kitchen, to accompany their TV show - also teased the recipe to a happy marriage. John said: "Fish finger tacos. You want stuff that everybody likes, that are not too difficult to do and don't take too much time, and things that are not stressful."

Lisa added: "You also need compromise. I would say just throw the fish fingers in the oven and you would say well, why don't we make the fish fingers? Then you compromise. I think compromise and looking after each other is a really big part of the recipe."

John And Lisa's Kitchen is available now (Quadrille, £25). The new series of John And Lisa's Weekend Kitchen airs Saturdays from 11.40am on ITV1 and ITVX.

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