Personal Life
Wallace has been married three times. He has two teenage children from his second marriage, Tom and Libby.
He married second wife, Denise a former pastry chef, in 1999 and they had their two children together. But they split in 2004 after she discovered he had been cheating on her. She had a breakdown afterwards, spent three months in hospital and Wallace got full custody of the children. Wallace met his third wife Heidi, a teacher from Cumbria who is 17 years his junior, in 2009 after she asked him a question about celery and pollock on Twitter. Giving up her job as a biology teacher at Ullswater Community College in Penrith, the couple married in 2010. They are presently separated, with Wallace living in the flat above his restaurant in London, while his wife lives with his two children and her two dogs at the family home in Whitstable, Kent.
In August 2012 Wallace was the subject of an edition of the BBC TV genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? His great-grandfather, Henry Roland Springett, was a stoker in the Royal Navy, who had originally joined as a grocer. He had served with the Canadian Navy but whilst at sea his baby daughter had tragically died, in 1908, in an accidental fire. His wife Emily had later given birth, illegitimately, to twins, one of whom had died in infancy from tuberculosis. Springett himself had started a second family in Antrim but had seen his second wife killed in a car accident. Emily's mother Selina Laythorn, the wife of a farm labourer, had been a member of the Bible Christian Church in Barnstaple and was a glovemaker in the North Devon glove industry based in Torrington. She had spent the final years of her life in the Devon County Asylum at Exminster.
Following in the footsteps of his maternal Grandfather's family, Wallace raises a small herd of 37 rescued bardoka sheep and goats in a smallholding near the family home in Kent, which he feeds on a specially devised organic diet. He has a Level 2 rugby union coaching certificate, and used to play for London Welsh.
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