John Torode doesn’t remember first meeting Lisa Faulkner.
Although the couple got to know each other after Lisa won ‘Celebrity MasterChef’ in 2010, they actually first met 20 years ago on TV show ‘This Morning.
Speaking on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’, John explained: "We met on ‘This Morning’ 20 years ago, I don’t remember but apparently we did."
Lisa added: "While filming ‘MasterChef’ I told him and he just went "yeah right".
John proposed to Lisa while they were on holiday in India last Christmas and she admitted she felt terrible because he bought her a beautiful ring, while her Christmas present to him was a pair of yoga pants.
Lisa said: "It was a very romantic proposal, he asked me on Christmas Day in India. He said we can only have one present each, so I gave him a pair of yoga pants and he gave me a ring.
"It was a complete surprise, I had no idea, the box was bigger than a ring box so I didn’t know."
While the proposal was a surprise, John admitted he had been planning it for some time.
He said: "She tried this ring on months before and said to me ‘what do you think?’ and I just said ‘fine’. She didn’t know but I later went back and got it."
However, there was one disadvantage to proposing in a different country.
John said: "There’s four hours time difference between India and home so she was pacing for four hours waiting to call her sister."
Although they met on ‘MasterChef’, John and only started dating in 2015.
Lisa, 47, split from Chris Coghill, the father of her daughter Billie in 2011, while John, 53, split from his former wife Jessica, the mother of his two children, in 2011 and was granted a divorce in 2014. John also has two other children from previous relationships.
The pair currently present ‘John And Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen’ together on Sunday mornings on ITV.
John Torode doesn’t remember meeting Lisa Faulkner
