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

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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.