John Torode explains why he seemed to ignore Holly and Phil's fire warning on This Morning

express.co.uk:

This Morning.The fire alarm started and John appeared to ignore Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield's fire warnings.The MasterChef judge has spoken exclusively to Express.co.uk about what actually happened in his North London home.John was recreating a McDonalds McMuffin in April 2020 at his home and was appearing on This Morning via video call.As John began to toast the muffins he failed to notice a tea towel left on the hob had set alight.Phillip and Holly frantically tried to warn John but his cries were left unheard as the flames got bigger.Luckily, John finally spotted the fire and dealt with it very professionally as his alarm began to ring in the house.Speaking about the incident, John told Express.co.uk: "So, you know I got distracted and what happened was I preheated the frying pan on the back stove to make sure it was hot because I was cooking in front of the camera on a little tiny portable stove."So I had just forgotten I had left the flame on, and of course I dropped the tea towel and because there is a delay of three seconds of whatever in case somebody swears on TV and they need to cut it out."So, you know three seconds is actually a pretty long time so I didn’t hear what Phillip and Holly were telling me."Detailing what happened after the cameras stopped rolling, he said: "But I think we handled it quite well.

I got the tea towel off and I've got it outside over the door."The fire alarm went off in the house and showed the fire alarm works, which I'm sure they’re very happy about."And it all ends up well.