Lisa Faulkner cut a dejected figure as she stepped out in north London on Monday, amid her husband John Torode’s apparent feud with Gregg Wallace.
Gregg is said to be ‘furious’ with John – his MasterChef co-host for almost two decades – after failing to publicly support him over allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour.
The under-fire presenter, 60, has unfollowed John, 59, and his wife Lisa, 52, on Instagram, making his anger quite clear – although Gregg’s wife Anne-Marie Sterpini still follows the couple.
And it looks like the stress of the situation might just get the best of Lisa, as she looked quite glum while out and about in the capital this week.
The actress wore a green padded jacket which she paired with a casual gray sweater and navy blue sweatpants.
Lisa added scruffy brown boots to her look and was loaded with a large burgundy handbag and a tote bag.
Lisa Faulkner cut a dejected figure on Monday as she stepped out in North London amid her husband John Torode’s apparent feud with Gregg Wallace
It seems the stress of the situation could be getting to Lisa too, as she looked quite glum while out and about in the capital this week.
The under-fire presenter, 60, [left] has unfollowed John, 59, and his wife Lisa, 52, on Instagram, making his anger very clear – although Gregg’s wife Anne-Marie Sterpini still follows John
The TV personality, who married John in 2019, was seen checking her phone as she walked among Gregg’s criticism on social media.
Her husband John has not said a word about Gregg’s departure to MasterChef, despite having worked together since 2005.
A source said The sun: ‘Gregg is absolutely furious and is convinced he has done nothing wrong.
‘It has really annoyed him to see John keeping his mouth shut in the middle of all this. Gregg and John have been colleagues for almost twenty years and although they are not the best of friends, Gregg thinks John could have something to say.
“He has now deleted them from his Instagram account and unfollowed them both.”
It came as Sir Keir Starmer said Wallace was ‘completely inappropriate and misogynistic’ for blaming ‘middle-class women of a certain’ age for his MasterChef ruin, amid growing pressure on the BBC to ax the show to catch the air.
Gregg has now apologized for “any offense I have caused” and “any upset I have caused to many people.” He blamed his middle-class womanizing for being “under.” siege’ and not being “in a good head space” on Sunday.
After nearly two decades of co-hosting Britain’s best-loved cooking show, the legacy of famed duo Gregg Wallace and John Torode appears to have collapsed in just a few months.
Lisa seemed dejected after the drama surrounding her husband and Gregg
The actress wore a green padded jacket which she paired with a casual gray sweater and navy blue sweatpants
The star wore make-up free as she ran errands in London
Lisa was lost in her own world during the quiet solo outing
The TV personality, who married John in 2019, was seen checking her phone as she walked among Gregg’s social media criticism
Anne-Marie continues to follow John and Lisa on social media
One source told MailOnline last weekend that John may fear the current furore will have a bad effect on him.
In October, John’s wife Lisa said of her time on MasterChef: ‘Greg told one crude joke after another. You’re just sitting there and if you’re sitting on the front bench and you’re like, “I’ve got ten minutes left,” and he says, “So this girl walked into a bar…”
‘And I say, “Please, I don’t want to hear this joke.”
Lisa, 52, appeared on the series in 2010, where she won the Celebrity MasterChef trophy.
Brookside and Holby City star Lisa told the Cheltenham Literature Festival how she would overhear the former greengrocer’s jokes while she was preparing her dishes.
BBC presenter Gregg quit MasterChef after it emerged that 13 people, including Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, accused him of ‘wrong’ and inappropriate ‘sexualised’ behavior during filming.
He is accused of making “inappropriate sexual jokes,” asking for the phone numbers of female production workers, and undressing and standing “too close” to women working on his shows. He allegedly walked naked on set with only a sock on his penis.
The grocer turned presenter recently posted a series of inflammatory videos online in which he hit back at critics, saying: ‘Can you imagine how many women on MasterChef, female contestants, have made sexual comments or sexual innuendo?’
Gregg said he was furious with his MasterChef co-host John after he failed to publicly support him
Since the allegations against Gregg, his TV assistant has failed to address the ongoing dispute and the removal of his cohost from the show
Wallace had said: ‘I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20 years, amateur, celebrity and professional MasterChef, and I think in that time I’ve competed with over 4,000 contestants of all different ages, from all different backgrounds and from all walks of life. have worked. .
‘Apparently, as I now read in the newspaper, thirteen complaints were received during that time. I see the complaints coming from a handful of middle class women of a certain age just from Celebrity MasterChef. This isn’t right’.
His posts have been branded ‘shocking’ and laced with ‘thinly veiled misogyny’ – and did not address the sexual allegations made by numerous MasterChef celebrities, producers and contestants on the show he left last week. There are allegations related to four other shows he worked on.
An insider told MailOnline today: ‘Gregg has gone rogue and ignored all advice.’ Another expert said: “He should shut up.”