Writer, media personality and former greengrocer, costermonger and farmer Gregg is probably best known for co-presenting the hugely successful ‘MasterChef,’ ‘Celebrity MasterChef’and ‘MasterChef: The Professionals’ on BBC2 and BBC1 alongside John Torode.

Gregg 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, and his obvious love of food, 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.

Gregg has written and presented ‘Stocking Up: a History of Preserved Food’ for BBC's Radio 4, indulging his other passion as an amateur historian.

He 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 2007, he appeared in the BBC reality TV singing contest ‘Just the Two of Us’where he partnered Carol Decker.  In 2008 and 2009 he presented two editions of The Money Programme on the effect that the current financial crisis is having on the public's attitudes towards food.

In 2010 he appeared as one of the historical experts in the BBC’s historical recreation series ‘Turn Back Time: The High Street’ alongside Tom Herbert and Juliet Gardiner.

 

Gregg writes on food, regularly contributing to Olive Magazine and the BBC Good Food magazine. His first book Veg was published in 2006 by Mitchell Beazley. A Cook’s Year was published in early 2007.

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