Gregg Wallace: What did you want to be when you were growing up?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Gregg Wallace said elsewhere, not written here

A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Jo Nesbø Norwegian writer and musician

I wanted to play for Tottenham.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2026 source ↗

I haven’t grown up.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗

Angela Hartnett English chef

Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 August 2022 source ↗

My brother Joe, he’s nine years older than me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 May 2026 source ↗

Raising my children, Tom and Libby, on my own.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

As the happy man who made happy television programmes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

I wouldn’t marry anybody until I met Anna.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

When I got married in 2016. I’d had a chance to practise three times before, so I was comfortable.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

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