Masterchef star Gregg Wallace defended the 21-year age gap with his latest wife, saying it’s “the first time in my life I’ve met someone who genuinely likes me”.
The ex-green grocer, 55, tied the knot with 34-year-old Anne-Marie Sterpini in 2016.
Telly presenter Gregg thinks he has “hit the jackpot” with the beauty as he revealed the key to their happy relationship was moving the in-laws into their home.
He reckons it’s allowed them to have couples time away from the baby and kept his younger missus “fun and sexy” instead of becoming “an exhausted mum”.
He said: “Happy men are at home with their wives and family. There are no happy men in the pubs.”
Gregg Wallace has defended his 21-year age gap romance with wife Anne-Marie (Image: UK Press via Getty Images)
Gregg and Anne-Marie had baby boy Sid in May last year while her mum Rina moved in to their five-bedroom mansion in Ashford, Kent, in 2017, swiftly followed by dad Max.
The Masterchef stalwart also has two grown-up children from his second marriage.
Gregg said: “Anna and her mum take care of all the house stuff.
“Her dad does all the stuff I can’t do.
Gregg says he’s ‘hit the jackpot’ with Anne-Marie (Image: BBC/RDF)
“If a handle comes off a window, if there is a leaky pipe, Max fixes it.
“He puts up shelves.”
He added: “I said: ‘Yes, I’m willing to have a baby with you, but a couple of provisos.
“‘I’m not willing to swap my fun, sexy girlfriend for an exhausted mum. We make enough money, I’d like to get help in the house.
“Anna said: ‘What about my mum?’ That was perfect.
“The second condition was that I would get two weeks away with Anna every year, just us.”
Gregg married for the first time in 1991, but wife Christine left him after just six weeks of marriage.
He next walked down the aisle with Denise in 1999, with whom he had children Libby and Tom, before the couple separated in 2004.
Gregg got hitched again to Heidi in 2010 but the pair split after 15 months.
The food lover met Anne-Marie on social media in 2013 and tied the knot in a glitzy ceremony three years later with Masterchef co-host John Torode, 54, acting as his best man.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
