1. Gregg Allan Wallace was born on 17 October 1964 and is an English broadcaster, entrepreneur and writer.
34 Facts About Gregg Wallace
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Gregg Wallace is known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two.
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Gregg Wallace has written for Good Food, Now and Olive.
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Gregg Allan Wallace was born on 17 October 1964 in Peckham, South London.
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Gregg Wallace left school at 15 and started work as a warehouseman at Covent Garden Fruit and Veg Market.
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Gregg Wallace sold vegetables at a stand in Covent Garden, before becoming a salesman.
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Gregg Wallace was later told that setting up a business might be a good idea.
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Gregg Wallace was invited to co-present Veg Talk on BBC Radio 4 with Charlie Hicks.
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Gregg Wallace was the original presenter of Saturday Kitchen from 2002 until being replaced by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003.
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Gregg Wallace presented Veg Out for the Discovery Channel, and Follow That Tomato for The Food Channel, resulting in a Royal Television Society award for Best Lifestyle Programme in 2003.
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In 2008 and 2009, Gregg Wallace presented two editions of The Money Programme on the effect that the financial crisis was having on the public's attitudes towards food.
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In 2016, Gregg Wallace was the presenter of a revived series of the BBC historical game show Time Commanders.
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Between 2005 and 2024, Gregg Wallace was co-presenter and judge of BBC cooking show MasterChef, with John Torode.
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In December 2024 Gregg Wallace was replaced by the food critic Grace Dent.
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In March 2018, Gregg Wallace declined to judge Zaleha Kadir Olpin's dish on MasterChef, stating that the stewed chicken rendang dish was "not crispy enough and could not be eaten".
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In 2007, Gregg Wallace appeared in the BBC singing contest Just the Two of Us where he partnered with professional singer Carol Decker.
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In 2010, Gregg Wallace appeared in the BBC One series Turn Back Time: The High Street with Tom Herbert and Juliet Gardiner.
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On 27 January 2012, Gregg Wallace appeared in an episode of Room 101 on BBC One.
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Gregg Wallace appeared as a guest panellist on the BBC Two programme An Extra Slice In 2014, a contestant in Series 7 of the ITV quiz show The Chase Celebrity Special in 2017, a contestant on Celebrity Catchphrase in 2019, a contestant on the sixth series of Tipping Point: Lucky Stars in 2020, a contestant on the third series of The Chase spin off, Beat the Chasers in 2021, and a celebrity expert on the 2021 Christmas special of The Wheel.
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In September 2014 Gregg Wallace was a contestant on the twelfth series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional Aliona Vilani.
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Gregg Wallace left the show in the second week, after the first public vote, when the Waltz danced by Jennifer Gibney and Tristan MacManus was preferred by the judges to Vilani and Wallace's Charleston.
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In November 2024, it was reported that Gregg Wallace was to step away from MasterChef while allegations of historical misconduct were investigated.
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Gregg Wallace was dropped by the charity Ambitious about Autism which had appointed him as an ambassador in honour of his autistic son.
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On 2 December 2024, Gregg Wallace apologised for suggesting that allegations against him came from "a handful of middle-class women of a certain age".
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The former head of BBC News, Roger Mosey, stated that the allegations against Gregg Wallace were a "blow to the BBC" which has had a long-standing problem with misbehaviour by some of its presenters.
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Gregg Wallace married his first wife, Christine, in 1991 but their marriage only lasted six weeks.
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Gregg Wallace has two children with his second wife, former pastry chef Denise Lovell, whom he was married to between 1999 and 2004.
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Gregg Wallace later married biology teacher Heidi Brown, in 2010, his third wife who was 17 years his junior, after meeting her on Twitter.
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Gregg Wallace met Anne-Marie Sterpini, 21 years his junior, on Twitter, in 2013 and they married in August 2016.
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Gregg Wallace publicly expressed his fears of being an "old parent" but said that he was considering having more children.
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In February 2024, Gregg Wallace told the Telegraph that having another child "isn't something that I would have chosen at my age", but did so to please his wife.
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Gregg Wallace was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to food and charity.
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Gregg Wallace has supported the club since childhood and took part in football hooliganism in his youth.
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At one time Gregg Wallace was a rugby coach for an under-15's side in Liverpool.