Celebrity Masterchef and Love Island star Faye Winter's very poignant reason for taking part in cookery show

15.08.2022 - 23:49 / msn.com

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. "Read more: Celebrity Masterchef 2022: Is Faye Winter still with Teddy Soares and her Love Island storyFaye 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