GREGG Wallace has been crowned the new Alan Partridge after telling a newspaper his daily routine includes a ‘no-sweat workout’, a fry-up at Harvester and a few hours of historic war video games.
The MasterChef host, 59, revealed his usual weekend in  The Telegraph’s ‘My Saturday’ column, detailing what he does after his 5am start.
Wallace begins with an hour of reading, followed by a coffee, but is quickly out of the house and off the gym where he revealed that staff let him in half an hour early so he can have a private sauna and swim.
“I work out five days a week. I’m down at the gym half an hour before it opens. They let me in earlier, so I have a swim and sauna by myself. Then I’ll review my to-do list while walking on a treadmill, no sweating.” Wallace announced in the article
“I aim for 50,000 steps a week – I do about 7,000 a day. I’m now 12 stone [having lost five stone] and I have less than 18 per cent body fat and a six-pack.” boasted Wallace.
Catching up on Gregg Wallace’s magnificently Partridgian My Saturday. pic.twitter.com/dHmKPhHk00
— Ed Cumming (@edcumming) February 5, 2024
All that good work is then perhaps quickly wasted after Wallace trots over to chain-restaurant Harvester for a fry-up.
“Bacon, sausage and fried egg. People say to me, ‘I didn’t expect to see you in here.’ Look, they do grilled chicken, there’s a salad bar, and I’ve never been disappointed. It’s all about expectation when it comes to food.
“I’ve regularly been disappointed in three-star Michelin restaurants around Europe but never in a Harvester.”
Gregg then chats over his new wellness business with his PA before incredibly heading back home for lunch just an hour and a half later.
“Back home for lunch, which my wife Anna [Anne-Marie Sterpini] will have ready on the table. Her white bean soup with a crust of bread is a family favourite.”
Then Wallace reveals how he spends time with the son – who he wouldn’t have had if he’d had his way.
“I like to spend time with my four-year-old son, Sid, who’s non-verbal autistic. We’ll potter in the garden and play with our two dogs, Wally and Bella.
“I’m a much better father now I’m older, although another child isn’t something that I would have chosen at my age. I was always very honest with Anna, but it’s what she wanted and I love her. I just requested two things – that we had help in the house (so her mum moved in), and secondly that we had at least one week a year when we holidayed just the two of us.”
Wallace then spends the rest of his afternoon with a few hours playing computer game ‘Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, set in 878 AD’ – before cooking the family dinner.
“I cook dinner for the family once a week. I never eat takeaways now – I make my own healthy cheeseburgers instead.”
After a long day comes an early bed time at 8pm, he and Anna will either watch a film on his laptop or read a book, apparently Gregg “tried sitting on the sofa eating biscuits, but didn’t find it ‘fulfilling”.
Social media users have been quick to comment about his somewhat hilarious ‘Alan Partridge’ routine.
One joked: “ChatGPT describe Gregg Wallace‘s day in the style of Alan Partridge.”
Another said: “I’m starting to think every Alan Partridge scene with his PA isn’t fiction at all but a recreation of Gregg Wallace‘s life.”
“Lot of people mocking Gregg Wallace, but huge respect for a man who goes for breakfast* at 10.30 and returns home for lunch at noon. *Then orders a sausage, bacon and eggs because the chicken and salad bar are reliable,” said @duncanbrowne.
“People have picked over the bones of that Gregg Wallace interview enough already, I’m sure, but: ‘I’ve tried sitting on the sofa, eating biscuits, but I didn’t find it fulfilling’ is a phrase I will remember a while.” added @watsoncomedian
Some were less than impressed with his day.
“The Gregg Wallace thing needs to make people look at how women’s work is invisibilised by society. GW puts his success down to daily gym sessions, manifesting, journalling, reading etc – meanwhile, this is only possible because his wife and mother-in-law do absolutely EVERYTHING” posted @BradfemlyWalsh