Top 66 Gregg Wallace Quotes

I hate barbecues in the U.K., they’re always put together by people who don’t cook.

I actually think I’m lucky. Because blokes who lose their hair at a later age, in their thirties and forties, get hung up about it. Because they had hair and then lose it. But I’ve never had that problem.

Nothing beat that welcoming smell of fried food wafting into the hallway from the kitchen as I walked in from school as a kid.

The game of love, in my opinion, is a lottery.

One drawback about judging on ‘MasterChef’ is that, as the series gets busier and busier and the food gets better, you take bigger and bigger mouthfuls of all that rich, sweet, fatty food, and we really put on weight.

I want to have my own quiz show. I want to do a Saturday night, wear a suit and do one of those shiny floor shows.

I think it’s a class thing. There are people that would honestly think Pret a Manger is healthier than Greggs. Why?

If people ate local and seasonal food they’d eat far better and cheaper foods and it would help farming in this country. There are far too many imported vegetables.

My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I’d love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I prefer rugby and my career would end by the time I was 30, leaving me enough time to go and study history.

You know, I’ve been bald since I was 18. I started losing my hair at 17 and I’ve been completely bald since 20 years old.

Every household down my road in Peckham, south-east London, stunk of deep-fat frying and I’m sure every working-class home around the country was the same. How would you have done chips and Spam fritters without a deep-fat fryer?

I once left my wife and child in a hotel in Mexico to fly to Guatemala in this tiny plane for two days to see the rainforests. Guatemala had just finished a civil war and my hotel door had five or six bolts on it; I was locking myself into a safe vault.

I was Top Celeb. There’s only a short step I think from being Top Celeb to hosting it.

I always eat breakfast as I’ve just come out of gym and I’m ravenous for protein.

I had a poor upbringing. We lived in a rented house with no bathroom and an outside toilet and that, combined with the fact that I left home at 15 without any serious education, has always made me feel like I have to compete.

I don’t want lots of someones. I want to be with that special someone.

On ‘Masterchef’ I’m always a big fan of the puddings. But I have to confess, as a child I absolutely loved butterscotch angel delight. My mum used to make it in huge bowls. She’s one of the worst cooks ever, bless her. The best thing she did was a chilli con carne, and that was still terrible.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

There are two things that happen when there is a recession. One, more people watch telly and two, people buy more raw foodstuffs, instead of processed foods.

Having my baby boy made me want to be fit and strong.

My website ShowMe.Fit is all about helping people make simple lifestyle changes to help them lose weight and get healthier.

Well, I don’t know about my mum; I think she is almost Buddhist in her approach to life in that she’s not going to work very hard at any particular thing and she’s not going to let any particular thing trouble her. I’m very different. I aspire to things and I worry about things.

I’m a real security addict and I’ve always channelled far too much of my life into accumulating money.

Two things in life I hate – one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.

I think that Hardeep Singh Kohli is the winner of ‘MasterChef’ that never was.

I go on holiday abroad two or three times a year, then through work I’m away another couple of times.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, ‘Is that all you’ve got?’ But people do it with food.

I’m a technophobe, I just don’t understand it.

In my childhood home, the chip pan was always on the go.

I’ve always been a worrier.

Happy men are not the ones in the pub, laughing. Happy men are at home with their wives and family. There is no one happy in the pub.

I would make a tough law that would force all supermarkets to source at least 15 per cent of their fresh produce from a very small radius of the store.

I really like ‘Come Dine With Me’ and ‘Eating With My Ex.’ Both shows have my two favourite things: people and food.

A safari is just a magical thing, the winelands in South Africa are beautiful.

Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.

A man – hairy or not – should still spend time on personal hygiene.

I’ve always eaten out a lot as I live life on the road, so I never conceived of eating anything healthy.

Don’t want to be so fat? Then eat fewer calories – it really is that simple.

Sadly, in my work on shows like ‘Eat Well For Less?’ I know that people ARE misinformed about what’s on their plate. Many would be shocked to discover their Friday fish and chips is close to 1,400 calories.

I once bought a 45 ice cream. I had to do it. They had a 100-year-old vinegar drizzled across the top. And that was worth it.

Whatever your meals are, they must fill you up, do not skip breakfast or lunch because you’re going to get hungry and then you’re going to be reaching for snacks that are sugary, salty, fatty, that won’t fill you up, and then you’ll be reaching for them again.

If I have to fly economy, there is no way I am flying more than two and a half hours. I am just not doing long-haul economy flights. I did it once to the Caribbean and never again.

In my romantic Shangri-La, I’m loved for me. They accept my faults and think, ‘He works too hard, he can be difficult, but he’s great.’

I don’t feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.

I don’t do this watching telly thing. I realise I am strange.

The main thing to remember is that things like deep-fat-fried foods, or the delicious sugary buttery cakes like Mary Berry bakes, are treats.

If I’m doing a pavlova, for example, I need a recipe as I can’t remember it well.

I learned that South Africa is the most diverse country I have ever seen. The diversity is just striking. The food, the people, the culture, the look and the feel, for that all to be one country.

You don’t have to be uncomfortable or hungry to lose weight. You just have to learn what foods you can eat.

When you go out for a good meal, chances are that there will be a deep fat fryer in the kitchen. Every Michelin star restaurant will have one.

The most important thing for a date is not to prepare anything too complex because you’re likely to be a little bit too stressed. Also, she’s there to see you and not your plate of food. Spend as little time in the kitchen as possible.

Mum bought our dinners from Bejams, a frozen food centre. We had a huge chest freezer, back in the 70s and we filled it chockablock with frozen stuff.

Even though I have a warm, nostalgic view of spam fritters, if you gave them to me now, I would probably find them absolutely disgusting.

We don’t spend loads of money. I want to make sure that when I’m gone, my wife is looked after and financially safe.

I haven’t been invited to anyone’s for dinner since the show began. I like eating with friends in restaurants instead. You all choose what to eat, have a starter, main and dessert, and then you go home.

Filming for ‘MasterChef’ with the Royal Marine Commandos in the Arctic was the only time I’ve felt like planet Earth was trying to kill me. It was so cold the hairs inside my nose froze.

Don’t start any diet or regime if you can’t make that an everlasting lifestyle change because it simply will not work.

I think people should eat more healthily and probiotics are good for you and easy to make.

I used to go to the pub every day and drink five pints of beer and then think, ‘What is it that’s making me put on weight?’

There are days when I lack motivation – but I still workout.

Don’t cut out things you like – it will just make you miserable.

On ‘MasterChef’ the critique always is about the food.

Picnics enable you to be outside, eat fun finger-food and enjoy that greatest of pastimes: People-watching.

Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London – I didn’t have a privileged or wealthy upbringing – but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded.

As soon as my clothes come back from the laundry I hang them up on the left-hand side of the wardrobe and take clothes to wear from the right, so they’re constantly rotating.

We don’t like to say it, but TV is a hugely image-conscious industry. I know it might sometimes look like I don’t do anything, but I work very hard, and part of that is looking as well as you can. It’s an advert about who you are, what sort of person you are.