Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Gregg Wallace
Gregg Allan Wallace (born 17 October 1964) is an English broadcaster, entrepreneur and writer. He is known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two. He has written for Good Food, Now and Olive.
Wallace left MasterChef after allegations of inappropriate behaviour surfaced in 2024. Wallace's lawyers said it is entirely false that he had engaged in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature. In April 2025 Wallace said he felt "under attack" due to the allegations about him and that he had contemplated suicide. In July 2025 he issued a public statement, ahead of the publication of an investigation into his conduct, stating that he had been cleared of the "most serious and sensational accusations." An independent report substantiated 45 of the 83 complaints against Wallace – mostly involving inappropriate sexual language and humour. Multiple media outlets reported that Wallace had been dropped by the BBC.
Gregg Allan Wallace was born on 17 October 1964 in Peckham, South London. At the age of eight, he was sexually assaulted by a babysitter's husband, but did not tell anybody at the time. He left school at 15 and started work as a warehouseman at Covent Garden Fruit and Veg Market, selling vegetables at a stand in Covent Garden. In 1989, he started George Allan's Greengrocers, a company that grew to a turnover of £7.5 million.
In 2010, Wallace opened the restaurant Wallace & Co in the London district of Putney, where he served as one of the directors. In 2012, he opened Gregg's Bar & Grill in a joint venture with the Bermondsey Square Hotel. In August 2013, it was reported that one of Wallace's companies, West Veg Limited, had folded, owing more than £500,000. In 2014, both of his restaurants folded, with Wallace & Co owing suppliers £150,000.
Wallace was invited to co-present Veg Talk on BBC Radio 4 with Charlie Hicks. The programme aired for seven years from 1998 to 2005; Andy Kershaw described it as being "delivered with this fake, barrow-boy bonhomie."
Wallace was the original presenter of Saturday Kitchen from 2002 until being replaced by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003. Wallace 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.
In 2008 and 2009, Wallace presented two editions of The Money Programme on the effect that the 2008 financial crisis was having on the public's attitudes towards food. In August 2013, Wallace presented Supermarket Secrets, a BBC One programme about supermarket food sourcing and distribution, and in September 2013, he co-presented Harvest 2013, a three-part documentary following the progress of Britain's vegetable, cereal and fruit harvests.
In 2013, Wallace started to co-present Eat Well for Less? alongside Chris Bavin for BBC One, and from 2015 until 2023 he co-presented Inside the Factory, alongside Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman for BBC Two. In 2016, Wallace was the presenter of a revived series of the BBC historical game show Time Commanders.
Hub AI
Gregg Wallace AI simulator
(@Gregg Wallace_simulator)
Gregg Wallace
Gregg Allan Wallace (born 17 October 1964) is an English broadcaster, entrepreneur and writer. He is known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two. He has written for Good Food, Now and Olive.
Wallace left MasterChef after allegations of inappropriate behaviour surfaced in 2024. Wallace's lawyers said it is entirely false that he had engaged in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature. In April 2025 Wallace said he felt "under attack" due to the allegations about him and that he had contemplated suicide. In July 2025 he issued a public statement, ahead of the publication of an investigation into his conduct, stating that he had been cleared of the "most serious and sensational accusations." An independent report substantiated 45 of the 83 complaints against Wallace – mostly involving inappropriate sexual language and humour. Multiple media outlets reported that Wallace had been dropped by the BBC.
Gregg Allan Wallace was born on 17 October 1964 in Peckham, South London. At the age of eight, he was sexually assaulted by a babysitter's husband, but did not tell anybody at the time. He left school at 15 and started work as a warehouseman at Covent Garden Fruit and Veg Market, selling vegetables at a stand in Covent Garden. In 1989, he started George Allan's Greengrocers, a company that grew to a turnover of £7.5 million.
In 2010, Wallace opened the restaurant Wallace & Co in the London district of Putney, where he served as one of the directors. In 2012, he opened Gregg's Bar & Grill in a joint venture with the Bermondsey Square Hotel. In August 2013, it was reported that one of Wallace's companies, West Veg Limited, had folded, owing more than £500,000. In 2014, both of his restaurants folded, with Wallace & Co owing suppliers £150,000.
Wallace was invited to co-present Veg Talk on BBC Radio 4 with Charlie Hicks. The programme aired for seven years from 1998 to 2005; Andy Kershaw described it as being "delivered with this fake, barrow-boy bonhomie."
Wallace was the original presenter of Saturday Kitchen from 2002 until being replaced by Antony Worrall Thompson in 2003. Wallace 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.
In 2008 and 2009, Wallace presented two editions of The Money Programme on the effect that the 2008 financial crisis was having on the public's attitudes towards food. In August 2013, Wallace presented Supermarket Secrets, a BBC One programme about supermarket food sourcing and distribution, and in September 2013, he co-presented Harvest 2013, a three-part documentary following the progress of Britain's vegetable, cereal and fruit harvests.
In 2013, Wallace started to co-present Eat Well for Less? alongside Chris Bavin for BBC One, and from 2015 until 2023 he co-presented Inside the Factory, alongside Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman for BBC Two. In 2016, Wallace was the presenter of a revived series of the BBC historical game show Time Commanders.