John Torode celebrates wife Lisa Faulkner’s 49th birthday with sweet post

John Torode celebrated his wife Lisa Faulkner’s 49th birthday on Friday and sweetly called the actress the ‘love of his life’.   

The MasterChef star, 55, took to Instagram to post a radiant photo of the celebrity chef sipping a drink outside.  

Declaring his love for Lisa, John sweetly penned: ‘Happy Happy Birthday to the love of my life . Love you my Wife . Here’s to sunshine and cocktails.. love you @lisafaulknercooks.’

To which Lisa replied with: ‘Thank you my Johno. See you later [heart emoji] I love you.’  

In the photo, the celebrity chef looked radiant as she wore a camouflage-patterned jacket and high-waisted jeans.

Adding some glamorous accessories, the former EastEnders star opted for a pink neck scarf and oversized black sunglasses. 

Lisa was also wished happy birthday by several of her celebrities pals, which included Tamzin Outhwaite, Charlie Condou and Denise Van Outen. 

Taking to Instagram herself, the actress thanked fans and friends for their ‘lovely’ birthday messages and gifts. 

Lisa also shared her ‘best present’ of the day, which was from her daughter Billie, 14, and consisted of a box of tokens such as a blow-dry, head massage or cup of tea.  

The former Holby City actress adopted her daughter Billie with her first husband Chris Coghill back in 2008.  

John has previously called Lisa ‘his rock’ and sweetly said: ‘She’s been a rock, we’re great mates we do alright together. 

‘We love food together, we cook, after six months of marriage you would hope so!’  

The couple married at the swanky Aynhoe Park in Banbury in October 2019 after getting engaged earlier that year. They have been dating since 2015.

Yet the duo were forced to celebrate their six-month wedding anniversary in April in an unusual way due to the coronavirus crisis.

For the day, Lisa cleaned the house in her wedding dress while John donned his marital suit during lockdown. 

Lisa previously said: ‘We decided to put our wedding gear on, I put my wedding dress on because I thought I’d never wear it again and six months in we had nothing else to do.

‘Then John came down in his outfit which I didn’t know he was doing to do, and we did our Instagram cook in our wedding gear.’ 

John replied: ‘It was that time when everyone was feeling a bit naff, so we thought it would be nice to give something back, so we thought why not have a bit of fun and make everybody smile.’