Gregg Wallace : (7)

" 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. " - Gregg Wallace

" I hate food evangelists. " - Gregg Wallace

" I download music, I don’t buy CDs any more, but I still buy DVDs. " - Gregg Wallace

" Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London – I didn’t have a privileged or wealthy upbringing – but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded. " - Gregg Wallace

" A lot of people have what they call ‘sofa time,’ but it just doesn’t exist in my world. " - Gregg Wallace

" 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. " - Gregg Wallace

" 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. " - Gregg Wallace