# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-torode
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:31:11.065Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-torode"
name: "John Torode"
slug: "john-torode"
description: "John Douglas Torode is an Australian and British celebrity chef and TV presenter. He moved to the UK in the 1990s and began working at Conran Group's restaurants. After first appearing on television on ITV's This Morning, he started presenting a revamped MasterChef on BBC One in 2005 until 2025. He is a restaurateur; former owner of the Luxe and a second restaurant, Smiths of Smithfield. He has also written a number of cookbooks, including Sydney to Seoul, My Kind of Food and John and Lisa's Kitchen with his wife Lisa Faulkner. Torode was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to food and charity."
tagline: "Australian celebrity chef"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Torode_Masterchef_Live_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1965-07-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.96
  momentum:             1.987272524282684
  historical:           6.719865333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JohnTorode1"
    handle:    "JohnTorode1"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1855499/"
    handle:    "nm1855499"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.johntorode.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torode"
    title: "John Torode"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torode"
    title: "John Torode"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torode"
    title: "John Torode"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF"
    title: "جان تورود"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Douglas_Torode"
    title: "John Douglas Torode"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Torode"
    title: "John Torode"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6213772"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1225241"
    title: "John Torode"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump