Masterchef's Gregg Wallace: Greengrocer to Masterchef Royalty Reveals The Secret To Heath, Wealth & Success
Disruptors
Rob Moore
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Greg Wallace joins Rob in this episode to give great answers to almost any question you could think of about Masterchef and his life too. He gives many answers you wouldn’t expect including the revelation that no one actually eats hot food in a restaurant and that all TV presenters are accidents! Greg cracks many dad jokes throughout and even opens up about his ethos for life and risk and how to discover what you truly want from life.
GREGG WALLACE REVEALS
- Why MasterChef is such a popular tv show
- Why he doesn’t believe in ‘foodies’
- The positive implications of covid on MasterChef
- His soft spot for ‘brown’ foods!
- What first interested him in food
- How every TV presenter is an accident
- His ethos for life
ALSO FEATURED:
- What it means to trade yourself as a commodity
- How Gregg Wallace gets the best out of the contestants on the show
- Gregg's thoughts on I’m a Celebrity
- The transitional state of television and the way it’s changing
BEST MOMENTS
“Everybody has an interest in food”
“If a TV presenter isn’t talking about themselves in ten minutes they’re not a very good TV presenter”
“I went straight from fish fingers and oven chips to caviar and lobster, just overnight”
“My job is to get them to tell me what they’re feeling”
“Be specific otherwise how do you know what you want and how do you know when you get there”
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ABOUT THE HOST
Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “The Disruptive Entrepreneur”
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| 0:00.0 | I never cease to wonder at the courage of those professional chefs who come in. |
| 0:03.7 | Amateur are looking to change their lives. Celebrity version, yeah, okay, they've got a career. |
| 0:08.2 | Those professionals, they are putting their reputation on the line. |
| 0:13.0 | Greg, what's the secret source to master chef's enduring success? |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, it's made by very, very good TV makers. |
| 0:22.0 | Very, very good TV makers. Very, very good TV makers. |
| 0:25.0 | It covers a subject that everybody's interested in, |
| 0:28.0 | and that's what we eat. |
| 0:29.0 | Everybody's interesting. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't believe there are foodies and non-foodies. |
| 0:32.0 | You show me someone that has no |
| 0:33.6 | interest in food, I'll show you a course. Everybody has an interest in food. |
| 0:37.4 | Their knowledge might not be huge, but even somebody that lives on burgers can |
| 0:41.3 | tell you which ones they prefer. |
| 0:43.0 | Which one is it pretty as it got an interesting food. |
| 0:45.7 | But the clever thing about Master Chef is I don't think you're actually really watching |
| 0:50.2 | food. |
| 0:50.8 | You're watching people on a journey. Food is just the river they're floating down. |
| 0:54.8 | You get into the characters. You either love them or you don't like them. There's people |
| 1:00.0 | you really don't like, but you get into those characters characters and if you watch how well it's |
| 1:04.2 | made there are little outcomes that you want to know that you want to find out |
| 1:08.7 | throughout how they're going to get on cooking that how they're going to get on |
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