Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Gregg Wallace
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
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.
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.
Don't start any diet or regime if you can't make that an everlasting lifestyle change because it simply will not work.
I really like 'Come Dine With Me' and 'Eating With My Ex.' Both shows have my two favourite things: people and food.
If I'm doing a pavlova, for example, I need a recipe as I can't remember it well.
I think that Jamie Oliver did more good for the nation's cooking when he was just cooking than by telling us what chickens we should eat.
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 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.
Having my baby boy made me want to be fit and strong.
I download music, I don't buy CDs any more, but I still buy DVDs.
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.
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've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.
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.
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?'
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.
My website ShowMe.Fit is all about helping people make simple lifestyle changes to help them lose weight and get healthier.
You can't get a phone any more that just makes phone calls. And that's all I want to use it for.
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 might have a chocolate bar on the go for energy.
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.
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.
There are days when I lack motivation - but I still workout.
I'm the bald fat bloke off 'MasterChef.'
I'm very close to Michel Roux Jr, so my favourite restaurant in the world is Le Gavroche in Mayfair.
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.
Nothing beat that welcoming smell of fried food wafting into the hallway from the kitchen as I walked in from school as a kid.
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 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.
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'm happy to tell the whole world everything about me because I want people to like me.
I'm a technophobe, I just don't understand it.
I'm needy, I need approval in everything I do.
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 go on holiday abroad two or three times a year, then through work I'm away another couple of times.
In my childhood home, the chip pan was always on the go.
I have to confess that I've never seen Australian 'MasterChef.'
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.
Don't want to be so fat? Then eat fewer calories - it really is that simple.
When I was young, airports were quite a nice place to be - people put nice clothes on to fly - but now it is like a bus station. It is horrendous.
I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.
I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.
Picnics enable you to be outside, eat fun finger-food and enjoy that greatest of pastimes: People-watching.
A man - hairy or not - should still spend time on personal hygiene.
Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.
There's some terrible food on 'Come Dine With Me' and that creates some great moments.
Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.
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.
I try to be as fit as possible, so I do a lot of exercise every day. Cardio, weights, uphill walking.
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.
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 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.
I don't want lots of someones. I want to be with that special someone.
I was Top Celeb. There's only a short step I think from being Top Celeb to hosting it.
Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.
I always eat breakfast as I've just come out of gym and I'm ravenous for protein.
I travel business and I fly business personally.
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.
I've always eaten out a lot as I live life on the road, so I never conceived of eating anything healthy.
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