Gregg Wallace, 55, shares snaps of son Sid, eleven months, as the pair enjoy a walk in the sunshine

He recently credited his wife Anna and their 11-month-old son Sid with spurring on his fitness transformation.

And Gregg Wallace was every inch the doting father as he took his son for a walk in the park amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown on Thursday.

The MasterChef star, 55, had Sid strapped into a harness on his chest as the pair got some fresh air alongside Anna and two other family members they are isolating with.

Day out: Gregg Wallace, 55, was every inch the doting father as he took his son for a walk in the park amid the ongoing coronavirus lockdown on Thursday 

Sharing a quick clip of the stroll, Gregg said: ‘Hello from me and Sid, Sid with his hat on, me with the sunglasses and the rest of the family on our after lunch walk.’ 

Gregg kept it casual for the outing in a white T-shirt and a pair of shades while Sid was dressed in a blue babygrow and a matching hat. 

On Wednesday, the TV host uploaded an adorable snap of the tot sitting on the grass and wrote: ‘Sid experiences a lawn’. 

It comes after Greg admitted Sid and his wife Anna were the driving forces behind his recent fitness transformation.  

Couple: Gregg shares his adorable son Sid with his wife Anna, 33 (pictured in June 2019) 

The media personality has lost a whopping four stone and has his sights set on achieving a bodyfat reading of 15 percent – but Anna, 33, doesn’t want him to overdo it.

‘Falling in love with a much younger woman is incentive to look after yourself,’ Gregg told MailOnline in an exclusive chat this week. ‘I am very aware she is 22 years younger than me. But saying that, she doesn’t care.

‘The only thing she does say is “don’t get too muscly, I don’t like all the veins!”‘

Adorable: The MasterChef star had Sid strapped into a harness as the pair got some fresh air

Self-isolating: Gregg and Sid were joined on the walk by Anna and two other family members

Gregg said: ‘Hello from me and Sid, Sid with his hat on, me with the sunglasses and the rest of the family on our after lunch walk’

Heartwarming: On Wednesday, Gregg uploaded an adorable snap of the tot sitting on the grass and wrote: ‘Sid experiences a lawn’ 

Gregg – who welcomed Sid last spring, also admits that his newfound love for health is so he can be ‘fit for my baby’.

‘I want to be there as long as I can be,’ he admitted. ‘And I love that I can run around with him and play with him. I love to strap him to me and run around the grass with him.’

Gregg – who is also father to grown-up children Libby and Tom – also stressed that wellness is about making yourself feel better.

‘Falling in love with a much younger woman is my incentive!’ Gregg admitted that his wife Anna has spurred on his recent fitness transformation

Transformation: The star has lost a whopping four stone and has his sights set on achieving a bodyfat reading of 15 percent – but Anna doesn’t want him to overdo it

Like father, like son: Gregg – who welcomed Sid last spring – also admits that his newfound love for health is so he can be ‘fit for my baby’

‘How you feel about yourself on a day-by-day basis is the the mostly important thing in the world,’ he said, admitting that he is now ‘a big gym bunny’ who makes sure he works out ‘seven days a week’.

‘Exercise is the first thing in the diary. I am in the gym at 6AM. If I’m traveling or off filming somewhere I will find one of those Pure Gyms that are open 24 hours and I could be in there at 5AM.

‘That’s my thing! That’s what I love to do!’

Gregg – like the rest of the UK and much of the world – is currently on lockdown thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but isn’t letting that stop him.

Full house! Gregg is in lockdown with wife Anna, her parents – Rina and Massimo – his daughter Libby, 23, and baby Sid

Loved up: ‘I am very aware she is 22 years younger than me. But saying that, she doesn’t care,’ Gregg said

‘There is no way I am not exercising!’ he said. ‘My trainer, Danny Rai, is a very clever guy. He has set me a five-day training programme that doesn’t require any equipment at all.

‘Some are 30 minute sessions, some are 50 minutes. You can’t do a great deal of muscle development without equipment, which is what I’d like to do, but I can still stay fit and do a lot of cardio.

‘And being at home I can eat what I want!’

Restrictions: Gregg admits that his day job – judging MasterChef as well as the Professional and Celebrity versions of the series – means he has ‘no freedom’ when it comes to what he eats [pictured with co-host John Torode]

Gregg admits that his day job – judging MasterChef as well as the Professional and Celebrity versions of the series – means he has ‘no freedom’ when it comes to what he eats.

‘I am always tasting food. And then other shows I do, I am often travelling,’ he said. ‘But in lockdown I can control my diet more.’

Gregg has lost weight gradually, slowly altering his lifestyle over three years, now weighing just below 12 stone.

He said: ‘There is no way I am not exercising!’ he said. ‘My trainer, Danny Rai, is a very clever guy. He has set me a five-day training programme that doesn’t require any equipment at all’

‘I don’t agree with diets in any way, shape or form,’ he said. ‘You can’t live your life differently for a number of months and just go back to how you were. It has to be a gradual, day-by-day, week-by-week. And yes, you will fall off the wagon. But it’s about moving yourself into a healthier you, and as you do it your body will stop craving things.

‘It’s far easier to convince your adult body to convince your body to eat healthy foods. Like these days, if someone put a fry up in front of me, I would struggle to finish it.

‘I do think, though, that you should never be hungry. Just eat the right things. I don’t understand why people latch on to diet crazes. Or why they think there can be some secret way to somehow still have all the bad trimmings, beers, curry, fish and chips.

‘You can’t not have them, but it’s about limiting them or finding alternatives.’

Gregg added: ‘Also, no chip or bottle of wine tastes as good as how you can feel’

Gregg added: ‘Also, no chip or bottle of wine tastes as good as how you can feel.’

Gregg insists he doesn’t try to preach, and is in no way a saint; but admits he has genuinely learnt about how to manage food and alcohol during his fitness journey.

With regards to alcohol, he said: ‘The Italians have got it right – they are fully aware of what alcohol does to them and at what point they can allow themselves to get to when they drink.

‘For me it’s the second drink – there’s the euphoria. That’s when the music sounds great, conversation is great. And people think that if you keep on drinking it will get better, but you don’t feel better. Two drinks will do me, not five or six.’

Of the current COVID-19 lockdown, Gregg admits there’s ‘an underlying anxiety’ about the state of the world but that he has been trying to have ‘a whale of a time at home’ as he self-isolates with Anna, Sid, Libby and his in-laws.

‘My wife is convinced I’m a workaholic and that I don’t spend a lot of time at home, so this has actually been very nice,’ Gregg said. ‘Yes, there is a dark worry going on right now, but I also realise I am fortunate to have the family and a bit of space around me.’

Gregg added: ‘And being at home I can eat what I want!’

Indeed, Gregg resides in a converted farmhouse in Kent with a sweeping garden and has been heading to the fence at the bottom of the garden to have drinks with his neighbours – at the 2m distance – to keep spirits up. One of them is an intensive care nurse.

‘There is a renewed sense of community in this isn’t there?’ he mused. ‘We are all in this together – beggar and king, and all in between.

‘And I’ve also been going through my phone and phoning people that I haven’t spoken to for a long long time.’

Country pile: Gregg resides in a converted farmhouse in Kent with a sweeping garden

Social distancing: Gregg has been heading to the fence at the bottom of the garden to have drinks with his neighbours – at the 2m distance – to keep spirits up. One of them is an intensive care nurse

Gregg has also been championing a new initiative introduced by the Wasps rugby team – whom he has supported for 20 years – who are helping to keep fans connected and motivated with players phoning supporters.

Wasps Rugby – based in Coventry – devised the #MakeThatCall campaign, which launched last week, with the aim of supporting NHS workers, to other critical key workers, and vulnerable people including the elderly, encouraging people to connect.

Chip off the old block: ‘I want to be there as long as I can be,’ he admitted. ‘And I love that I can run around with him and play with him. I love to strap him to me and run around the grass with him’

Wasps fan: Gregg has also been championing a new initiative introduced by the Wasps rugby team – whom he has supported for 20 years – who are helping to keep fans connected and motivated with players phoning supporters

‘The players took it in turn to call the elderly and that widened out to supporters in general,’ Gregg explained. ‘So these fans are getting the players phoning them up and asking them how they are. Their heroes are phoning them up!

‘Rugby, being the close-knit community that it is – it’s led to other clubs picking up on it, copying it. And it’s something I am more than happy to put my face and name to it because one, I’m a Wasps fan, and two, it’s a bloody good idea.’

MasterChef continues on BBC One this week on Wednesday at 9PM and Thursday at 7:30PM.