MasterChef winner, Lisa Faulkner

Lisa Faulkner will be cooking up some delicious dishes in the CL kitchen and show us how she cooks for herself and her family as well as joining us on the Good Life Theatre where Country living experts and hosts will sit down with Lisa to discuss everything Celebrity Master Chef, her discoveries to motherhood  and her plans for the future.

Lisa first established herself as a leading actress starring in numerous high profile TV dramas including Holby City, Spooks and Dangerfield. In 2010 Lisa won BBC 1′s Celebrity MasterChef and has since gone on a remarkable food journey. In 2017 Lisa accepted the role of Fi Browning in Eastenders, leaving the soap in dramatic fashion at the beginning of 2018.

In the spring of 2019 Lisa’s new cookery show launched on ITV, John & Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen became an instant hit on Sunday mornings and along side her husband John Torode – they have gone to make a further 3 series with more to come in 2020.

In 2012 Lisa’s first cookery book was published, Recipes From My Mother For My Daughter and became an instant bestseller, reaching number one in The Times non-fiction list. In the early summer of 2019 Lisa Faulkner’s 5th and first non cookery title was published by Ebury. Meant To Be tells Lisa’s personal story and discoveries to motherhood via IVF and ultimately adoption.

Lisa has presented a number of TV programmes, including ITV’s iconic daytime series This Morning, BBC2′s primetime version of the critically acclaimed Heir Hunters, hit Channel 4 daytime show What’s Cooking? with Ben Shepherd as well regularly cooking in the This Morning kitchen. Lisa is a regular face on the Food Network, in 2014 she presented The Big Eat alongside Matt Tebbutt and Kitchen Superheroes.

As well as presenting and cooking on This Morning Lisa has also anchored a number of food strands including Coastal Cottage, Comfort Cottage and Hollywood Menu. Lisa is passionate about cooking with children and in 2015 Crash My Kitchen launched on CBBC, in the series Lisa teaches children and their families how to cook simple and healthy meals. In addition to her television work, Lisa has acted in numerous films such as A Feast at Midnight as well as And The Beat Goes On.

For more information on her sessions and session times in the CL Kitchen click here and the Good Life Theatre click here.