at
MasterChef Live in 2009|alt=|rightWallace 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. In December 2019, Wallace presented a
Channel 5 documentary called ''Gregg Wallace's Magical Christmas Market
, filmed in Vienna, Austria. In April 2020, Channel 5 scheduled a follow-up series called Gregg Wallace's Fun Weekends
, but it was pulled because it featured cities badly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The four-part travel series was finally transmitted in February 2021 as Big Weekends with Gregg Wallace
(also known as Gregg Wallace: Big Weekends Away'') with the first episode being about
Barcelona. In February 2021, Wallace presented a six-part
ITV series called
South Africa with Gregg Wallace. In the series, he visited sites such as
Isandlwana, the Augrabies Falls, Durban and the
Orange River. In this month it was reported that
Kimberley Walsh was likely to replace Wallace as presenter of
Eat Well For Less, after Wallace left the show after eight years. In December 2021, Wallace presented two Channel 5 Christmas specials: ''Gregg Wallace's Grand Christmas Adventure
and Gregg Wallace's Magical Christmas Market
. In July 2023, Wallace presented Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat'', a
mockumentary which depicted a British company that had developed food technology to produce genetically engineered human meat.
MasterChef Between 2005 and 2024, Wallace was co-presenter and judge of BBC cooking show
MasterChef, with
John Torode. In December 2024 Wallace was replaced by the food critic
Grace Dent. In March 2018, Wallace declined to judge Zaleha Kadir Olpin's dish on
MasterChef, stating that the stewed
chicken rendang dish was "not crispy enough and could not be eaten". This remark was criticised by some social media users in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, who said on
Twitter that rendang is a "stewed, soft and tender dish: not intended to be crispy".
Guest appearances In 2007, Wallace appeared in the BBC singing contest
Just the Two of Us where he partnered with professional singer
Carol Decker. The duo were the first to be eliminated. In 2010, Wallace appeared in the
BBC One series
Turn Back Time: The High Street with Tom Herbert and
Juliet Gardiner. On 27 January 2012, Wallace appeared in an episode of
Room 101 on BBC One. In August 2012, Wallace was the subject of an episode of the BBC genealogy show
Who Do You Think You Are? Wallace appeared as a guest panellist on the
BBC Two programme
An Extra Slice In 2014, a contestant in Series 7 of the
ITV quiz show
The Chase Celebrity Special in 2017, a contestant on
Celebrity Catchphrase in 2019, a contestant on the sixth series of
Tipping Point: Lucky Stars in 2020, a contestant on the third series of
The Chase spin off,
Beat the Chasers in 2021, and a celebrity expert on the 2021 Christmas special of
The Wheel. In September 2014 Wallace was a contestant on the
twelfth series of BBC's
Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with professional
Aliona Vilani. In the first week Wallace danced a
Cha-cha-cha to
Katy Perry's "
Hot n Cold". During the judges' comments, Wallace joked about the lack of success shown by
Craig Revel Horwood in a previous series of
Celebrity Masterchef. He left the show in the second week, after the first public vote, when the
Waltz danced by
Jennifer Gibney and
Tristan MacManus was preferred by the judges to Vilani and Wallace's
Charleston. == Allegations of misconduct ==