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

Paul Whitehouse Welsh comedian

A professional footballer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

That rather assumes I have grown up.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗

Warwick Davis English actor

I didn’t have a chance to want to be anything – I became an actor at 11.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 November 2017 source ↗

A dress designer.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 August 2026 source ↗

I wouldn’t marry anybody until I met Anna.

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 ↗

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

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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