A REALITY TV show winner was hurt when violence broke out at a charity event.

Hell's Kitchen champion Terry Miller was left nursing cuts and bruises after stepping in to stop the fighting.

Terry, 46, had attended the breast cancer awareness charity fundraiser at the four-star Newcastle Marriott Gosforth Park with his wife, Linda, and other members of his family.

But when trouble broke out, his wife said he was asked to intervene and was injured in the brawl.

Northumbria police were called to the hotel when the punch-up erupted in the early hours of Sunday.

There were no arrests as no one wanted to press charges.

The chef, who runs his family catering business on Tyneside and is about to open a restaurant, did not want to talk about the fracas.

But Mrs Miller said: "I didn't see what happened or who started it as I was on the dance floor.

"It was a charity do and we had a table. Terry told me he was at the bar talking to a barmaid when a woman came up to him and asked him to intervene in a fight which had broken out elsewhere.

"He went to be the peacemaker, but he ended up getting punched and he came off worse than anyone else."

She added: "He's very upset about what happened. He's bruised and has lost his voice."

Mr Miller, who grew up in Newcastle and now lives in Darras Hall, won £250,000 in the hit ITV reality show, to start his own restaurant.