Quotes from Gregg Wallace

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

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

On 'MasterChef' the critique always is about the food.

I try to be as fit as possible, so I do a lot of exercise every day. Cardio, weights, uphill walking.

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

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

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

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

History is just fascinating. I love it.

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.'

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

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.

There's some terrible food on 'Come Dine With Me' and that creates some great moments.

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?'

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.

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.

When I was at my biggest I was having a daily fry up, fish and chips once per week, takeaway a couple more times and drinking beer nearly every day.

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

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

I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.

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