Gregg Wallace’s ‘magnificently Alan Partridgian’ Saturday regime (which includes a ‘no sweat’ workout, a fry up at the Harvester and HOURS playing historical war video games) goes viral as fans insist ‘this HAS to be a parody’

Gregg Wallace has left fans stunned after revealing his typical weekend routine.

The MasterChef judge, 59, lifted the lid on his usual weekend antics The Telegraph‘s My Saturday column, which reveals how he fills his day between waking up early and going to bed at 8 p.m.

Showing that he isn’t indulging in a weekend lie-in, Gregg starts his day at 5am, where he reads for an hour – currently A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles – before making himself a cup of coffee and counting the registration numbers for its health program.

However, there is no more time to rest as he has to stick to his five-day-a-week training regime, revealing that he has persuaded staff to open the gym for him half an hour earlier every weekend so he can can enjoy private swimming and sauna.

Once the crowd arrives (at the appropriate time), Gregg heads to the treadmills where he works towards his goal of 50,000 steps per week, but emphasizes that there is “no sweat involved.”

He commented: ‘I’ve now lost 12 stone (I’ve lost five stone) and I have less than 18 per cent body fat and a six-pack, but I have a bloating belly. I think we all have our imperfections.”

After working up an appetite but not sweating, next on the to-do list is breakfast, with Gregg meeting his PA at the local Harvester for breakfast – which consists of bacon, sausage and fried egg.

Although he admitted that people are often surprised to see him at the budget restaurant chain, he is “never disappointed” by the food and especially loves the grilled chicken and salad bar.

Instead, he noted that he was let down by the food offerings at several Michelin-starred restaurants in Europe.

Over breakfast, conversations with his PA turn to business as they combine MasterChef recordings, wellbeing matters and the new health and wellbeing podcast, A Piece of Cake.

On his new healthy living podcast, Gregg mused: ‘I love talking to the experts, but I’m also a real expert because I’ve been journaling, manifesting, setting goals and reading self-help books for years.’

Seemingly blessed with a high metabolism, lunch comes just an hour and a half after his baking, with Gregg’s wife Anna, 38, ensuring there’s food on the table when he gets home around midday.

Lunch will be followed by quality time with his four-year-old son Sid, who is non-verbally autistic but ‘is looking for company and is starting to show eye contact.’

Gregg, who has two adult children, Tom, 29, and Libby, 26, with his ex-wife Denise, opened up about his relationship with his youngest child: ‘I’m a much better father now that I’m older, although still a child is not something I would have chosen at my age.

‘I was always very honest with Anna, but that’s what she wanted and I love her. I only asked for two things: that we have help around the house (so her mother came to live with us), and secondly, that we have at least one week a year to go on holiday just the two of us.’

After an hour and a half of quality time with Sid, Gregg enjoys two hours of me-time.

As an ‘amateur historian’ and video game fan, he likes to lock himself in his home office at 3pm while playing Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, set in 878 AD.

After leading the Normans, Saxons and Gaels to victory, he gets to work preparing dinner for his family.

The restaurateur and former greengrocer revealed that Anna takes on the main kitchen duties, while he only cooks for his family once a week, usually a grilled fish dish from the fishmonger.

He is also in favor of making his own ‘healthy’ cheeseburgers as takeaways are banned following his health overhaul.

Alcohol is also limited: Gregg drinks twice a week, usually starting with a pint, then a wine, then a whiskey or cognac, but he makes sure he doesn’t ‘drink excessively anymore’.

After his long day, it comes to bed early, at 8 p.m., where he and Anna will read or watch a movie on his laptop, because Gregg “tried to sit on the couch eating cookies” but didn’t find it “fulfilling.”

Sleep usually comes around 9 p.m.

Gregg’s Saturday regimen quickly started to become popular on X, with bemused fans claiming he resembled Steve Coogan’s comedy character Alan Partridge.

They wrote: ‘Catching up on Gregg Wallace’s magnificent Partridgian My Saturday.’; “Gregg Wallace here with an article that would easily put him in the top league of LinkedIn’s most ridiculously selfish contributors”;

‘I met Gregg Wallace once – I bumped into him not once but twice within an hour in central Manchester and from our fleeting interaction I am not entirely surprised by his Partridge-esque interview.’;

‘This is my favorite bit…amateur historian #GreggWallace’; ‘Okay, who opens their Fitness First earlier to let Gregg Wallace in?’; ‘How can we make it clear to Gregg Wallace that this is not actually what historians do?’;

‘“At 8pm it’s cookies – and CHEESE” Gregg Wallace and Gromit’; “Gregg Wallace. This has to be a parody, right?’; “I can’t stop reading this Gregg Wallace stuff. What a journey, every word is absolutely incredible.’;

‘Imagine being that person at the gym who has to get there half an hour early so Gregg Wallace can swim in isolation, or his PA who has to go to Harvester every Saturday morning to watch him eat his bacon and eggs’;

‘Gregg Wallace: I wake up at the same time every morning. I’m going to read for an hour – currently it’s A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles – and then I’ll make myself a coffee and check my emails. Blur: PARKLIFE’;

‘Gregg Wallace tells the world that his child was unplanned and spends more time playing computer games (two hours) than with his autistic son (an hour and a half). If I responded to this with my feelings, Twitter would ban me.”