Gregg Wallace's crazy love life and savage comments he's made about his ex wives

Masterchef's Gregg Wallace is champion known for his cooking prowess and often harsh culinary feedback - but he's led a colourful emotion beingness distant from the kitchen.

The begetter of three, who has this week announced helium volition beryllium taking a measurement backmost from Masterchef amid misconduct allegations, has been down the aisle 4 times. And there's been plentifulness of play on the way.

From a shockingly abbreviated six-week matrimony that caused him lodging woes to different helium came to respect arsenic a "huge mistake", Gregg, 60, surely has plentifulness of acquisition erstwhile it comes to the rockier broadside of romance.

Here, the Mirror takes a look astatine Gregg's chaotic emotion life...

Christine

Gregg met archetypal woman Christine, his archetypal wife, who helium met portion moving successful a Greengrocer's shop. The mates tied the knot successful 1991, erstwhile Gregg was conscionable 24 years old, successful what was an impromptu ceremonial followed by meal astatine a pastry and mash shop.

Their newlywed bliss didn't past long, however, with Christine walking retired connected Gregg conscionable six weeks aft they said 'I do'. In his autobiography, Gregg described their blink-and-you-missed-it matrimony arsenic the "shortest matrimony successful the world".

Addressing his 4 marriages during an quality connected the White Wine Question Time podcast, Gregg advised: "Did I person lessons from each 1 [of my marriages]? The archetypal 1 lasted six weeks. I would accidental don't wed anyone due to the fact that you are disquieted astir losing your house.

"So determination is the archetypal one. We bought a tiny location unneurotic successful Bermondsey, and past we broke up, and I thought, 'Well, this is terrible. What is going to hap to the house?' I person worked truthful hard each my life, what is present going to happen?"

Denise Lovall

Gregg joined pastry cook Denise successful 1999, and went connected to invited children Tom, 29, and Libby, 26. They ended up parting ways connected successful 2004, aft it emerged that Gregg had been unfaithful.

In a 2009 interrogation with People, astatine astir the aforesaid clip Gregg met his 3rd woman Heidi Brown, Denise raged that her ex hubby would "never change".

Tragically, Denise passed distant successful 2017 pursuing difficulties with alcoholism. Opening up astir her decease during an interrogation with The Times, Gregg, who had custody of their kids, said: “She was truthful sick and it's truthful sad... I've had immoderate beauteous atrocious property and radical get maine wrong.

"They deliberation I'm a Millwall shot hooligan and a womaniser, but I'm not. I similar speechmaking past books with a solid of good wine. And family. Like I say, I emotion household life.”

Heidi Brown

In 2011, Gregg joined Heidi Brown, a pistillate 17 years his senior. The matrimony lasted conscionable 15 months and appears to person had immoderate rocky moments.

It was antecedently claimed that Heidi erstwhile gave Gregg her passport to reassure him that she wouldn't leave. In an interrogation with the Daily Mail backmost successful 2012, she described her ex arsenic a "difficult man" who was besides "quite needy" and "difficult to woody with".

Heidi besides reportedly wrote Gregg extended to-do lists, which helium has besides antecedently opened up about. He erstwhile explained: "It starts disconnected each greeting with 'yoghurt', past 'leg band' [he has a limb injury], past it’ll beryllium 'teeth', past it’ll accidental 'tablets' due to the fact that I’ve got to instrumentality my cholesterin tablets and vitamin C, past 'check BBC News'.

"Those are each the things I indispensable bash earlier I permission the flat. Then it’ll accidental ' Twitter ' due to the fact that I privation to tweet doubly a day, past it’ll accidental 'H' for Heidi due to the fact that of each the things I request to sermon with her. She runs the finances, the children and my diary. She besides helped maine with my fare and fitness, which means she was each implicit each facet of my life."

During the aboriginal days of their romance, Heidi would thrust 'six oregon 7 hours' from Cumbria to Kent each azygous week to walk clip with her beau. She shared: "Sometimes he’s a hard man, helium tin beryllium rather moody. He’s precise driven and works incredibly hard, which makes him stressed. He’s besides rather needy. I was uncovering it much hard to woody with." She said she 'grew much and much tired' and said it 'never seemed rather enough'.

And it would look that Gregg doesn't look backmost fondly connected his 3rd effort astatine marital bliss. During the aforementioned White Wine Question Time podcast, Gregg confessed: "The 2nd one, we were unneurotic for 14 years, and the 3rd 1 was a immense mistake. Probably the unhappiest I person ever been successful my life, but she was a teacher and was truly bully with the kids."

Anna

Gregg is present joined to Anne-Marie Sterpini, 37, whom helium affectionately refers to arsenic Anna. The couple, who person a 20-year property gap, stock a four-year-old son, Sid, who has autism. The mates reportedly met via Twitter erstwhile Anna quizzed the cookery adept astir whether rhubarb truly went good with duck aft seeing him effort a look connected TV.

He told HELLO! Magazine: "I conscionable looked astatine Anna's photograph and thought, 'Wow, she's pretty'. So yes, rhubarb, which was considered an aphrodisiac successful medieval times, brought america together."

Opening up astir their emotion communicative during an quality connected ITV's Lorraine, Gregg revealed he'd sent Anna a connection connected Twitter, and they began messaging backmost and forth. He confessed: "Then I sent her my telephone number, this was 5 years ago."

However, Anna wasn't 100 per cent definite that helium was the existent woody until they met for the archetypal clip successful person. "She came down to London to person meal with me, and she said it wasn't until we got to the edifice that she was comfy it was truly maine and not an impostor," helium continued.

Anna besides delivered an ultimatum earlier things got serious, telling Gregg that they could lone beryllium unneurotic if helium wanted to person much children with her. Speaking with Event Magazine, Gregg, who already had 2 children from a erstwhile relationship, said: "When you autumn successful emotion with a younger woman, you’ve got to realise that the chances are they are going to privation a family.

"I retrieve [her] saying to me, 'I’m going to privation to get joined and person children. If that’s not what you want, past don’t messiness maine about'."

The brace tied the knot astatine Hever Castle successful August 2016 aft 3 years of dating, exchanging their vows successful beforehand of guests including John Torode, who was Gregg's champion man, Lisa Faulkner, Marcus Wareing, and Monica Galetti. This was Gregg's 4th matrimony and helium antecedently told Lorraine that helium thinks it was each to bash with luck. "I deliberation it's conscionable luck, and I got precise fortunate this time. Very lucky," helium said.

In an interrogation with Heat Magazine, Gregg gushed astir his family, declaring: "I'm happy. I'm precise overmuch successful emotion with my wife… I conscionable similar being with Anna. I similar her company, and she's 1 of the champion amateur cooks I've ever met." He besides revealed that Anna does astir of the cooking successful the house, and helium doesn't get progressive oregon connection immoderate advice.

However, Gregg has antecedently been criticised aft a Guardian portion astir his Saturday authorities quoted him arsenic saying helium "wouldn't person chosen" to person Sid. During different chat astir his play regular and location beingness successful The Telegraph, Gregg said: "I'm a overmuch amended begetter present I'm older, though different kid isn't thing that I would person chosen astatine my age. I was ever precise honorable with Anna, but it's what she wanted and I emotion her. I conscionable requested 2 things – that we had assistance successful the location (so her mum moved in), and secondly, that we had astatine slightest 1 week a twelvemonth erstwhile we holidayed conscionable the 2 of us."

Speaking to Kate Thornton connected the White Wine Question Time podcast astir his emotion for Anna, Gregg said: "What has emotion taught me? That it is an implicit crippled of accidental and that is it. It is simply a implicit and utter lottery. I americium precise fortunate I got the winning ticket. I won the Euro Millions the time that young woman walked into my life. She popped up connected my timeline connected Twitter."

During this aforesaid episode, Gregg explained that gathering radical successful existent beingness astatine a barroom was difficult, fixed his fame, asserting: "It is due to the fact that I americium connected television. I can't locomotion into bars."

"You can't chat anyone up astatine enactment due to the fact that the HR section would sack you. What I similar astir Twitter is that it is not a dating site. You tin conscionable person affable chats with people," helium told the host.

Despite this being his 4th clip down the aisle, Gregg was keen for everyone to cognize helium was superior astir his narration and wasn't rushing into different marriage. He told HELLO! Magazine: "Meeting Anna has brought maine what I deliberation I've ever been searching for – that big, lukewarm household dynamic, and there's existent spot successful that.

"I'm precise conscious of radical reasoning I conscionable bash this willy-nilly. But we haven't rushed into this – we've been unneurotic for 3 years, and I genuinely person ne'er met anyone similar Anna." The presenter went connected to stock however she was his 'dream girl' and is 'beautiful wrong and out'.

Since getting married, the mates person besides spoken astir their 22-year property gap, with Gregg making jokes astir it from clip to clip - particularly aft the commencement of their son, Sid, successful May 2019. Speaking connected Loose Women, panelist Judi Love asked him what it was similar to beryllium an older dada and Gregg replied that helium was blessed that Anna has idiosyncratic adjacent to her property to support her company.

He joked, "Baby Sid. You haven't met Mrs Wallace, but I was truly pleased she had a babe due to the fact that it's idiosyncratic astatine location much her ain property to speech to."

Since getting joined a 4th clip and welcoming his 3rd child, Gregg claims Anna has 'revolutionised' his life, arsenic he's made immoderate large manner changes to enactment his family.

Appearing connected Good Morning Britain successful January this year, helium explained: "That young pistillate has revolutionised my life, there's a 22-year property gap, we person been unneurotic 10 years and person a son, Sid, and I privation to beryllium determination for them." He went connected to uncover his fittingness travel and however he'd mislaid 5 stone.

This follows Gregg's announcement that helium is stepping backmost from MasterChef arsenic the BBC probe continues. A connection released by the show’s accumulation company, Banijay UK, reads: “This week, the BBC received complaints from individuals successful narration to humanities allegations of misconduct portion moving with presenter Gregg Wallace connected 1 of our shows.

“Whilst these complainants person not raised the allegations straight with our amusement producers oregon genitor institution Banijay UK, we consciousness that it is due to behaviour an immediate, outer reappraisal to afloat and impartially investigate. While this reappraisal is underway, Gregg Wallace volition beryllium stepping distant from his relation on MasterChef and is committed to afloat cooperating passim the process."

The connection continues: “Banijay UK’s work of attraction to unit is ever a precedence and our expectations regarding behaviour are made wide to some formed and unit connected each productions, with aggregate ways of raising concerns, including anonymously, intelligibly promoted connected set. Whilst these are humanities allegations, incidences brought to our attraction wherever these expectations are not met, are thoroughly investigated and addressed appropriately.”

Last month, it was reported that Gregg was being investigated for making allegedly inappropriate remarks to a pistillate BBC worker successful 2018. After quality of these alleged comments broke, Gregg took to Instagram to contradict that his remarks had been intersexual successful nature. He told followers: "With notation to what's successful the newspapers, these allegations were investigated by the BBC six years agone - and my comments were recovered to beryllium not sexual. I repeat, not sexual. Thank you for your time."

He aboriginal clarified: "Something other that I consciousness precise powerfully about, beardown capable to beryllium connected here, cipher six years agone oregon since has accused maine of flirting with anybody oregon hitting connected anybody. And that's important to me, and I accidental this for my woman Anna, who I've been existent to and madly successful emotion with since the time I met her.

"I don't privation anybody to misunderstand this and marque it look similar I was flirting with somebody. Nobody accused maine of that, and I ne'er have."

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