Gregg Wallace Biography
Gregg Wallace MBE is a former greengrocer and English broadcaster, entrepreneur, media personality, and writer known for co-hosting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef, and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two with celebrity chef John Torode.
How old is Gregg Wallace? – Age
He is 58 years old as of 17 October 2022. He was born in 1964 in Peckham, London, United Kingdom. His real name is Gregg Allan Wallace.
Gregg Wallace Family – Education
He was a victim of sexual abuse when he was eight years old. He dropped out of school at the age of 15 and began working as a warehouseman at Covent Garden Fruit and Veg Market. Before becoming a salesman, he worked as a vegetable vendor in Covent Garden.
Gregg Wallace Wife – Children
Wallace has been married and divorced four times. Christine, his first wife, left him after only six weeks of marriage in 1991. Wallace’s second marriage to Denise, a former pastry chef, resulted with two children (Tom and Libby). Wallace received full custody of the couple’s children after the couple divorced in 2004. Wallace met Heidi, his third wife, in 2009, and the couple married in 2010. After 15 months of marriage, they separated and later divorced.
Wallace met Anne-Marie Sterpini, his 21-year-old bride-to-be, on Twitter in 2013, and the couple married in August 2016. John Torode, Masterchef co-host, served as best man during the wedding at Hever Castle in Kent. In 2019, Sterpini gave birth to their first child. Wallace openly addressed his concerns about becoming a “old parent,” but also stated that he was thinking about having more children. In 2022, Wallace’s kid, Sid, was diagnosed with autism.
Gregg Wallace Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £3.5 million.
Gregg Wallace MasterChef
Wallace has been a co-presenter and judge on the BBC cookery show MasterChef with John Torode since 2005. Wallace is noted on the show for his dramatic presenting style, which includes yelled delivery and heated facial gestures.
He was the main voice in the 2013 YouTube viral video “Buttery Biscuit Base,” formerly known as “MasterChef Synesthesia,” in which his voice was pulled from several MasterChef episodes and used to make a song. Swedemason’s original video has received over 10 million views since its release.
Wallace refused to judge Zaleha Kadir Olpin’s dish on MasterChef in March 2018, citing that the stewed chicken rendang was “not crispy enough and could not be eaten.” This remark sparked a considerable media and public outcry in certain prominent ASEAN members, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei, who argued that rendang is a “stewed, soft, and tender dish: not intended to be crispy.”
Gregg Wallace Restaurants
Wallace worked as one of the directors of the restaurant Wallace & Co in the London borough of Putney in 2010. Gregg’s Bar & Grill, a joint venture with the Bermondsey Square Hotel, debuted in Bermondsey Square in 2012. West Veg Limited, one of Wallace’s firms, went bankrupt in August 2013, owing more than £500,000. Wallace & Co owed suppliers £150,000 when both of his restaurants closed in 2014.
Gregg Wallace Career
Wallace was welcome to co-present Veg Chat on BBC Radio 4 with Charlie Hicks. The program circulated for a considerable length of time. Wallace was the first moderator of Saturday Kitchen from 2002 until being supplanted by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003. Wallace likewise introduced Veg Out for the Revelation Station, and Follow That Tomato for The Food Station, bringing about an Illustrious TV Society grant for Best Way of life Program in 2003.
In 2008 and 2009, Wallace introduced two versions of The Cash Program on the impact that the monetary emergency was having on the public’s mentalities towards food. In August 2013, Wallace introduced Grocery store Mysteries, a BBC One program about grocery store food obtaining and circulation, and in September 2013, he co-introduced Reap 2013, a three-section narrative following the advancement of England’s vegetable, grain and organic product harvests.
In 2013, Wallace began to co-introduce Eat Well for Less? close by Chris Bavin for BBC One, and from 2015 until 2023 he co-introduced Inside the Plant, close by Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman for BBC Two. In 2023, he reported that he was leaving the program.
In 2016, Wallace was the moderator of a resuscitated series of the BBC verifiable game kickoff Commandants, showing up close by any semblance of history specialists Mike Loades and Dr Lynette Nusbacher.
In December 2019, Wallace introduced a Channel 5 narrative called Gregg Wallace’s Otherworldly Christmas Market, recorded in Vienna, Austria. In April 2020, Channel 5 planned a subsequent series to his Supernatural Christmas Market called Gregg Wallace’s Tomfoolery Ends of the week, yet it was pulled in light of the fact that it highlighted urban communities seriously affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. The four-section travel series was at long last communicated in February 2021 as Large Ends of the week with Gregg Wallace (otherwise called Gregg Wallace: Huge Ends of the week Away) with the main episode being about Barcelona.
Likewise in February 2021, Wallace introduced a six-section ITV series called South Africa with Gregg Wallace. In the series, he encountered a portion of the country’s most notable scenes and encounters, seeing Isandlwana, the Augrabies Falls, Durban and the Orange Waterway.
In this month it was accounted for that Kimberly Walsh from Young ladies Resoundingly was probably going to supplant Wallace as moderator of Eat Well For Less, after Wallace left the show following eight years.
In December 2021, Wallace introduced two Channel 5 Christmas specials: Gregg Wallace’s Terrific Christmas Experience and Gregg Wallace’s Enchanted Christmas Market.
In July 2023, Wallace introduced Gregg Wallace: The English Supernatural occurrence Meat, a mockumentary which portrayed an English organization that had created food innovation to deliver hereditarily designed human meat. In 2007, Wallace showed up in the BBC singing challenge Simply Both of Us where he banded together with proficient artist Song Decker. The couple were quick to be killed.
In 2010, Wallace showed up in the BBC One series Return to the past: The High Road with Tom Herbert and Juliet Gardiner. On 27 January 2012, he showed up in an episode of Room 101 on BBC One.
In August 2012, Wallace was the subject of a version of the BBC One’s Who Do You Assume You Are? superstar genealogical program. He showed up as a visitor specialist on the BBC Two program An Additional Cut In 2014, a hopeful in Series 7 of the ITV test show The Pursuit VIP Unique in 2017, a challenger on Big name Expression in 2019, a competitor on the third series of The Pursuit spin off, Beat the Chasers in 2021, and a VIP master on the 2021 Christmas exceptional of The Wheel.
In September 2014 Wallace was a candidate on the twelfth series of BBC’s Totally Come Moving, banded together with proficient Aliona Vilani. In the principal week Wallace moved a cha-cha to Katy Perry’s “Hot n Cold”. During the adjudicators’ remarks, Wallace kidded about the absence of progress shown by Craig Revel Horwood in a past series of VIP Masterchef. He left the show in the subsequent week, after the principal public vote, when the Three step dance moved by Jennifer Gibney and Tristan MacManus was liked by the appointed authorities to Vilani and Wallace’s Charleston.