Quotes from Gregg Wallace

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I want to be on 'Love Island' because I want to show how toned I've gotten and I also want to increase my Instagram following and get a clothing deal with Uniqlo.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I lived in Whitstable, Kent, I used a Harvester all the time in Herne Bay and people used to say, 'I didn't expect to see you in here.' Why wouldn't I be in here?

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.

A lot of people have what they call 'sofa time,' but it just doesn't exist in my world.

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.

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

I really want to help people because it seems to be there's this mental block and people think in order to lose weight you have to give up things in your life that are good - and that just isn't true. They feel like they've got to turn themselves into a monk.

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.

Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

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