Gregg: Some MasterChef cooks 'make John ill'

MasterChef's Gregg Wallace has revealed the dodgy food they have to taste on the show often makes fellow judge John Torode unwell.

The 48-year-old former greengrocer insisted to chat show host Alan Carr he has a tough constitution while the Aussie chef ends up running to the bathroom.

Gregg revealed: "Some cooks on MasterChef are rubbish. I am normally all right. I am never ill. But John normally goes to the bathroom straight after we finish.

"After filming, sometimes, he goes, 'Right, now that's over, I am going for an enormous ****'."

The pair also revealed on Alan Carr: Chatty Man they had never been round to each other's houses for dinner.

John said: "I've never been invited. Look, we go to work, we do a job, then we part company. Usually Gregg disappears without saying goodbye. But we do spend about 200 days a year together. That's enough. I like him, but..."

Gregg added: "You can't just keep that going in your private lives as well. We do share each others' problems. Well, I tell John mine."

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