Top 50 Gregg Wallace Quotes

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

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

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

I travel business and I fly business personally.

I’m happy to tell the whole world everything about me because I want people to like me.

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.’

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.

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.

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.

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’ve always made friends with people who have either money or influence and it’s something that I’ve struggled to let go of because I’ve been so needy in the past.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

I’m a huge fan of curries, chillies and stews and it is still possible to lose weight and eat hearty meals.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It’s all well and good telling people to buy more expensive food but the idea of cheap, mass-produced food and nobody starving is pretty good.

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

I might have a chocolate bar on the go for energy.

It’s not up to us how people eat.

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

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

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

I’ve always been a worrier.

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

I have a very spartan flat in London, and when they see it people say: ‘Why don’t you make it more homely?’ The reason is that it’s just a place to sleep when I’m working.

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

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

I hate food evangelists.

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

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

I’m very close to Michel Roux Jr, so my favourite restaurant in the world is Le Gavroche in Mayfair.

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?’

I wish ‘I, Claudius’ had never ended back in 1976. That was the best TV show the world has ever seen – apart from ‘MasterChef’ of course.

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.

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.

You can’t get a phone any more that just makes phone calls. And that’s all I want to use it for.

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

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.

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