Celebrity Masterchef's Faye Winter has revealed why she wanted to take part in the BBC One cookery competition. The former Love Island star, 27, took to Instagram to share her reasoning - she is doing it for her dad, who was seriously ill with Covid. The post comes after Faye broke down to judge John Torode during the quarter-finals of the show. You can read more about this series' contestant line-up here.
Posting a photograph of herself with her father, Faye captioned the post: "Masterchef was for this incredible strong man. You guys may remember when I came out of Love Island and I spent a lot of time in Devon, with everyone questioning my relationship and judging the amount of jobs I was announcing when actually me and my family were fighting a private battle of my amazing dad being in intensive care for almost a month, being told to prepare for the worse."
She continued: "He lost so much weight he was unrecognisable and was delusional to the point we couldn’t even have a conversation. Remember you never know what battles people are facing privately, we chose to fight this privately and luckily my beautiful dad got healthier and stronger everyday and now 9 months on he is slowly getting there."
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Faye concluded her post by thanking "the NHS and Torbay hospital for caring for [her father] in his worse days."
During her quarter finals appearance, Celebrity Masterchef judge John Torode told her: "Faye, throughout this competition one of the people you've spoken about a lot is your dad." when she said: "The whole experience has been for him" before breaking down in tears.
John replied: "A bit emotional there, mate, don't let that mascara run." She went on: "I came out of Love Island and my dad unfortunately caught Covid and he was in intensive care for three weeks.
"So, it was so hard so and when I got this I thought I'm gonna do it for him at the end of the day and cook dishes he likes." She added with a smile: "And he will watch this, he didn't watch me on Love Island - he said I swore too much."
During the first heat of this year's Celebrity Masterchef, it was media personality Nancy Dell'Olio who was the first casualty of the series. Faye has made it through to the next stage of the competition after impressing previous champions Lisa Faulkner and Judi Love, and 2021 finalist Joe Swash, in the quarter finals on Friday, August 12.
Celebrity Masterchef continues on BBC One on Tuesday, August 15 at 8pm
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