Gregg Wallace
MasterChef star Gregg Wallace chats to Property Mail about marrying into an Italian
family - and learning a lot in the kitchen.
WRITTEN BY LAUREN TAYLOR M
any people will know Gregg Wallace as the former greengrocer-
Anna’s spaghetti carbonara. 30 / PROPERTYMAIL
turned-MasterChef-co-presenter alongside John Torode - and a man who really, really loves a pudding. Not many people think he can cook, though. “Tey don’t realise!” says Wallace. “Unfortunately on MasterChef they don’t let me cook - I love to cook, but they don’t want me to, they want John to be the cook. You can’t work with food for 25 odd years and not be interested in cooking.” He admits his cooking skills have evolved however, particularly since he met his fourth wife, Anna, who’s Italian. “I do a lot more cooking than I ever did and it’s because of Anna and her family [they’re from the Lazio region near Rome]. Oh my god, I’ve learned so much from her!” So much so that the couple have now written a cookbook together, Gregg’s Italian Family Cookbook. But while the MasterChef and Eat Well For
Less presenter has laid claim to some of the recipes, really it’s all born out of the food Anna, her mum Rina, dad Massimo and Roman nonna, have been making for years. It was merely a “happy accident” that Wallace married into a family where food is the beating heart. “It was food that got me and Anna close together,” the London-born 54-year-old explains.”Tat Italian approach to food is something that I’ve always, always liked, and to find out that I was falling in love with a girl who was an incredible cook, and then to find out that her family were also incredible cooks, was quite a revelation for me. “I realised, alongside a beautiful girl, I was joining a family,” he adds. Wallace met Anna, 21 years his junior, back in 2013 (she apparently made contact on Twitter to discuss a rhubarb and duck recipe), three years before they tied the knot. Tey welcomed their first child into the world, a boy, Sid, earlier this year.
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