Gregg Wallace

Celebrity

1964-10-17

Quotes by Gregg Wallace

• 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.

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• Our nation was built on chips and Spam fritters.

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• 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.

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• It's all well and good telling people to buy more expensive food but the idea of cheap, mass-produced food and nobody starving is pretty good.

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• I've always made friends with people who have either money or influence and it's something that I've struggled to let go of because I've been so needy in the past.

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• My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I'd love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I prefer rugby and my career would end by the time I was 30, leaving me enough time to go and study history.

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• Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I've changed my own lifestyle since a doctor warned me my cholesterol levels meant I was in danger of a heart attack.

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

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

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

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