Gregg Wallace

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Gregg Wallace is a fruit and vegetable expert, writer and media presenter. He is probably best known for co-presenting Masterchef Goes Large and Celebrity Masterchef on BBC2 and BBC1 along with John Torode, where he is referred to as an "ingredients expert"

Wallace was born in Peckham and began his career selling vegetables at a stand in Covent Garden. He started George Allan’s Greengrocers in 1989, a company that built up to an eventual turnover of £7.5 million. Due to his success he was invited to co-present Veg Talk on BBC Radio 4 with Charlie Hicks for seven years. He was the original presenter of Saturday Kitchen from 2002 until he was replaced by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003^[1]. He writes regularly for Good Food and Olive magazine, and is managing director of a mail-order business, Secretts Direct, from Secretts Farm in Surrey. He also has a home in Seasalter, Whitstable.

Gregg also 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.

He appeared in Just the Two of Us where he partnered Carol Decker; they came last.