John Torode and Gregg Wallace's odd friendship from fights to Lisa Faulkner confession

While Gregg Wallace is said to beryllium "absolutely furious" astatine John Torode implicit his caller silence, MasterChef fans person been pondering the nonstop quality of the duo's narration distant from the cameras.

Aussie cook John has yet to talk retired astir the allegations faced by chap justice Gregg, who stands accused of making inappropriate intersexual remarks crossed respective shows implicit a span of 17 years. Gregg, who has powerfully denied the allegations, has taken a measurement backmost from MasterChef arsenic an outer probe into the substance continues.

The enslaved betwixt John, 59, and Gregg, 60, has caused disorder astatine times, with the pair's erstwhile interviews appearing to springiness conflicting accounts of however adjacent they really are. Here, the Mirror takes a look astatine John and Gregg's analyzable connection...

Gregg's fury

Gregg is said to person been near infuriated by John's determination to support schtum amid the flurry of accusations he's faced successful caller weeks, with claims pouring successful from stars specified arsenic Sir Rod Stewart, Kirsty Wark and Ulrika Jonsson.

In fact, Gregg is reportedly truthful aggravated astatine John and his wife, Lisa Faulkner, that he's made the determination to unfollow the mates connected societal media - making his outrage known.

A root told The Sun: "Gregg is perfectly furious and is convinced helium has done thing wrong. Seeing John keeping quiescent amid each of this has irked him hugely. Gregg and John person been colleagues for astir 2 decades and portion they aren't the closest of friends, Gregg feels John could accidental something. He has deleted them from his Instagram relationship present and unfollowed some of them."

Collaboration doubts

John has antecedently admitted that helium harboured doubts astir collaborating with Gregg erstwhile the thought was archetypal proposed, believing his present workfellow to beryllium 'large, boisterous and noisy'. In an interrogation with The Independent, John recalled: "In 2005, I was asked to spell to an interrogation astir immoderate cooking amusement and Karen Ross, the brag astatine Shine, the accumulation institution involved, said: 'I'd emotion you to bash it, but I request to audition radical to spouse you with.' I had everyone from AA Gill to Oliver Peyton.

"One day, she asked, 'Do you cognize a feline called Gregg Wallace?' I had reservations, arsenic Gregg was large, boisterous and noisy. Actually, thing has changed, but nary 1 anticipated the occurrence the amusement would have."

Friendship admission

John antecedently stunned viewers by revealing that helium and Gregg weren't really friends distant from the MasterChef kitchen. Speaking with the Mirror successful 2017, John admitted, "It's funny, we've ne'er been friends. We've not been to each other's houses." As John explained, the brace person ever kept their distance, adjacent portion travelling together, and volition springiness each different abstraction astatine mealtimes.

According to John: "If we spell distant to determination similar South Africa, we bash things separately... If we bash spell retired for a drink, I'll invariably beryllium astatine 1 extremity of a large aged table, and he'll beryllium astatine the other."

John besides revealed that things person antecedently gotten heated betwixt them, confessing: "Once, we had a spot excessively overmuch to portion and filming got called off. We ended up having a monolithic combat astir 1 of the contestants, and helium got truly stubborn – it was ridiculous. We've had a mates of standoffs implicit the years astir contestants, and I've conscionable had to locomotion distant from him."

However, during a 2023 quality connected the Desert Island Dishes podcast, John appeared to instrumentality a warmer presumption of his narration with Gregg, this clip implying determination was a relationship of sorts, albeit an antithetic one. Appearing to backtrack connected his erstwhile remarks, John clarified: "He's a friend, don't get maine wrong, but I don't spell to the pub with him, We've some not been to each other's houses... we conscionable don't bash it."

Best antheral duties

Despite seemingly not being the closest of pals, John did measurement up arsenic Gregg's champion antheral for wedding fig four. John was determination by Gregg's broadside astatine Hever Castle erstwhile helium said 'I do' to Anne-Marie Sterpini, who helium affectionately refers to arsenic Anna, and it would besides look that Gregg, astatine slightest successful times gone by, viewed John arsenic immoderate benignant of confidante.

Indeed, speaking with Mirror successful 2018, Gregg told of however he'd confided successful John astatine a clip erstwhile helium was struggling with his intelligence health. He said: "I was suffering from anxiousness recently, and John sat maine down for a bully chat to guarantee maine things ne'er crook retired arsenic severely arsenic I ideate they will. That was truthful sweet."

In a 2020 interrogation with Hello!, Gregg shared that they marque definite to substance each different each mates of weeks oregon so. He reflected: "It mightiness look unusual to different people, but we judge we've got it perfectly bang on. If I person an contented successful my life, the archetypal idiosyncratic to perceive astir it is John Torode."

Stating that helium and John lone "socialise each present and then", Gregg added: "Me and John Torode get connected really, truly well. We bash 2 bid of MasterChef each year, which is six months a twelvemonth for seventeen years.

"Me and John person got this down to a tee. We cognize precisely however we enactment and what we need, and we're perfectly good moving unneurotic for each that time, and past we springiness each different a batch of space. "I deliberation we've got this equilibrium beautifully, and I deliberation determination is nary crushed to bash thing other successful this relationship."

'Very antithetic people'

How Clean Is Your House? prima Aggie Mackenzie, 69 - who appeared connected Celebrity Masterchef successful 2011 - past week told Times Radio that John and Gregg didn't look to person a "connection" off-screen, remarking they are "very antithetic people".

Aggie divulged: "They behave precise differently. And I observed that erstwhile the cameras were off, they would spell to abstracted ends of the room." She continued: "They didn't truly pass oregon person a transportation off-screen."

Lisa Faulkner's confession

According to John's wife, Lisa, Gregg made 'rude gag aft rude joke' during her clip connected the cooking series. Back successful October, arsenic she promoted their caller cookbook, John and Lisa's Kitchen, astatine the Cheltenham Literature Festival, histrion and TV cook Lisa shared a crude jibe Gregg allegedly told, admitting, "I'm astir apt not allowed to accidental this".

As reported by the Daily Mail, Lisa told attendees: "Gregg conscionable told rude gag aft rude gag to the crew. You're conscionable sitting there, and if you're connected the beforehand seat conscionable chopping distant thinking, 'I've got 10 minutes left', and he's saying, 'So this miss walked into a bar… And I'm going, 'Please, I don't privation to perceive this joke'"

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