Gregg Wallace: I’d want The Rock to play me in a film
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would be Gregg Wallace’s choice of actor to play him in a film about his life.
Johnson is a 6ft 3in half-Samoan muscle-man and ex-professional wrestler who has starred in superhero film Black Adam as well as featuring in the Fast and the Furious film franchise and portraying the mythical demi-God Maui.
In an interview with Fabulous magazine, Gregg Wallace, the 5ft 8in MasterChef host from Peckham, said he thinks the former wrestler would be best placed to portray him in a biopic.
“We both have that lovely, clean-shaven look and we’re both into health and fitness,” he said.
The 59-year-old and father of three works out for five days a week, and has said before he gets let into his local gym half an hour before opening time to swim, sauna and walk on the treadmill.
In an article for The Telegraph earlier this year he boasted of “less than 18 per cent body fat and a six-pack” but admitted “we all have imperfections”.
Iron Paradise
However, his newly-toned physique is unlikely to be a match for The Rock, whose workouts and “Iron Paradise” motto have forged him a unique role as king of the muscle-clad Hollywood leading men.
He added in his Fabulous interview that he is “really happy” with his body, but wishes his belly didn’t stick out. However, he scoffed at the suggestion of cutting down on some food groups, saying his role presenting and judging Masterchef makes this impossible.
Mr Wallace said he is happiest when at home with his family in his jogging bottoms, cooking and reading history books.
He admitted he struggled at being a parent at first, and he raised his son Tom and daughter Libby, now 30 and 27, respectively, as a single parent after getting custody of them 20 years ago.
“I wasn’t very good at it and I made a lot of mistakes, but we muddled through. I have a really strong relationship with both of them.”
Mr Wallace previously said he had not intended to have another child, but had his son, Sid, because his wife Anna, 37, wanted a child.
Sid, now four, is non-verbal autistic and Mr Wallace said all three of his children are his “biggest life achievement”.
