ITV has stood by John Torode after he was sacked from MasterChef for “using an extremely offensive racist term”. The celebrity chef made his screen return on Saturday (19 July) days after the allegation against him was substantiated by the BBC and production company Banijay following an investigation into the show.

John Torode has made his first TV appearance since he was sacked from MasterChef earlier this week as the chef returned to screens with his wife Lisa Faulkner

John Torode was sacked from MasterChef for using “the worst racial slur there is”, Richard Osman has claimed. Osman made the claim in his podcast, The Rest Is Entertainment, during a discussion about the exit of Torode and his co-presenter Gregg Wallace from the BBC show.