John Torode said Lisa Faulkner is doing really well after breast cancer surgery, giving a clean public update on Monday’s This Morning. The on-air check-in matters because Faulkner has already told viewers she will need radiotherapy in a few weeks, so the recovery is still moving, not finished.
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Ben Shephard put the question directly on This Morning on July 13: “Quick question as well, lovely Lisa, how's she doing?” Torode answered just as plainly: “She's doing really well, actually, really well, and thanks so much for asking. She thanks everybody for all their wonderful comments and their best wishes, but she's doing very well, thank you very much.”
The exchange landed on a daytime slot that still carries weight for personal updates. For a couple who also work together on TV, a brief live answer does more than tidy up the gossip cycle; it sets the record straight in public and moves the story from worry toward recovery.
Lisa Faulkner’s recovery
Earlier this month, Faulkner said: “It's all good, they've got everything out, so it's all clear, and I just need some radiotherapy in a few weeks.” That line gives the practical shape of her next step. Surgery has already happened, the result was clear, and the remaining treatment sits a few weeks ahead.
She also said earlier this year that she was in the very early stages of breast cancer, had had “quite a big op,” and still had “quite a bit of healing to do. But I'm good, I'm well, and feeling so much better.”
The mammogram that found it
Faulkner’s own account is the part that should matter to readers most. She said she was grateful she went for her mammogram, adding: “I'm so grateful that I went for my mammogram. Don't put them off, go, because they found this - without this mammogram, it wouldn't have been picked up.”
She also thanked the NHS directly: “I want to say thank you to our wonderful NHS, and the fact that we can have these mammograms, and we can get treatment early.” That is the operational takeaway here. Her story is not just about an update from John Torode; it is about a diagnosis that was found early enough to move straight into treatment.
Torode and Faulkner married in 2019, and this latest on-air check-in now sits alongside her own posts about healing and radiotherapy. The remaining question is the practical one: when the next treatment begins, how quickly her recovery can be measured in weeks rather than updates.
