Quotes from Gregg Wallace

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

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

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.

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

I'm the bald fat bloke off 'MasterChef.'

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 made a conscious decision to cut down on fried and high sugar foods, as well as booze - which helped me lose 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.

I download music, I don't buy CDs any more, but I still buy DVDs.

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.

When you fall in love with a younger woman, you've got to realise that the chances are they are going to want a family.

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

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.

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.

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

I have to confess that I've never seen Australian 'MasterChef.'

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.