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Jessica Sansome

Masterchef's Gregg Wallace shares key to weight loss transformation as he's quizzed on younger wife

Gregg Wallace has issued a five-word piece of advice as he spoke about his own weight loss on Good Morning Britain. The MasterChef judge was on the ITV news programme on Wednesday (January 4) where he chatted to hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley.

Gregg, 58, has become somewhat of a health and fitness advocate after losing almost five stone since 2017, and alongside his wife Anne-Marie and a range of experts he launched the website Showme.fit.

The TV star previously revealed he was warned he was "heading for a heart attack" and had watched himself "getting bigger and bigger" on TV before a doctor cautioned him about his high cholesterol almost six years ago.

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Speaking about his own transformation, Gregg told Susanna and Richard that he has been helping people on their fitness journey for “nearly three years” since showing off his dramatic change. And he had a key piece of advice: "Don’t go on a diet."

He told the surprised hosts: "Here’s what I’m going to say to you right now. Don’t go on a diet. Don’t do something that’s really difficult that you can’t maintain. We’re logical people. If it’s so difficult and so uncomfortable, you won’t keep it up.

"What I tell everybody, and this is the key, eat three healthy meals a day, reduce the snacking, reduce the takeaways." It soon led to Gregg slamming 'snack culture' and sees it a major problem across the country.

Gregg Wallace and his wife Anne-Marie Sterpini (PA)

He said: "People don’t say to me now ‘should I snack?’. They say to me, ‘what should I snack on?’ I think for too many of us, food is happening by accident. By that I mean, who knows what they’re having for breakfast when they leave the house, who knows what they’re having for lunch and then grabbing for a meal deal, that’s a packet of crisps and a sandwich.

"They haven’t planned their dinner, they come home, look in the fridge, not sure what to do, phone for a takeaway. Meal planning will make you eat healthily."

Before their interview time was up, Susanna asked Gregg about his private life, specifically the age gap between him and his wife, Anne-Marie, who he married in 2016.

"That young woman has absolutely revolutionised my life," Greg said. "(There are) 22 years between us, we’ve been together 10 years, we’ve got a little three-year-old boy called Sid and I want to be as fit and as healthy as I can for her and for the baby." He added: "She is beautiful and I do love her very much."

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