No Cheese Gromit! Wallace actor Peter Salis HATES the stuff

Wallace and Gromit star Peter Sallis has confessed a 20-year-secret - he doesn't like cheese!

The small screen legend has admitted he doesn't share his plasticine character's love of the dairy snack and has not tried the stuff for a decade.

And Sallis, also known for his role as Norman Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine, reckons he would much prefer a piece of cake to a slab of Wensleydale.

"I have to admit, I am not really a big cheese fan," confessed the star.

"I certainly haven't got the passion Wallace has for it.

"I've never really wanted to develop a taste for it, and I don't think I'll be eating some stinking bishop cheese anytime soon.

"I'd much prefer a plate of cake.

"I don't even know if I've ever eaten Wensleydale cheese, I haven't touched the stuff for decades, it is just not in my diet.

"My meals are usually two courses of starter and a main.

"I was actually warned off the stuff a while ago for health reasons, the simple fact is I'm just not mad about cheese."

This year marks the 20th birthday of the popular cartoon, and whilst Sallis is pleased the show has had such a good run, the 88-year-old thinks it could be coming to an end.

He added: "Wallace and Gromit has been going on for 25 years and the problem has always been getting the storyline.

"It isn't easy to keep on doing the same story with just a man and his dog, they can't talk too each other.

"I've never had many reservations over Wallace and Grommit.

"The only thing which ever worried me were the endings.

"Even with The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the one that went into the Oscar pot, even that had rather a shaky ending.

"It's quite easy to get stories launched, it's one thing to do that but another to bring the curtain down and I think that is the difficult bit.

"I think Nick had problems with that, but he never let it show.

"But who knows, the phone may ring one day and he might say he has another one in the pipeline.

"I never ask Nick if he is going to do another one, maybe he is working in his study right now trying to work out plots, or a series of plots, lets hope so.

"It would be lovely to do some more, but whether he can write them I don't know."

And Sallis has also revealed he tried to make creator Nick pick someone else for the role of Wallace.

Continued Sallis: "I tried to persuade Nick to get someone else.

"I spoke to him and he told me he was doing this cartoon thing called Wallace and Gromit and he wanted me to be the voice of Wallace.

"I didn't accept it straight away, I told him to send me a script because I wanted to audition.

"So I recorded my version and packed it off to him in the post.

"He got back in touch and told me that was exactly what he was looking for.

"So in the end he cast me in the role, despite me trying my best to put him off.

"Nick is such a nice guy, such a gentle person with a touch of genius about, he really shouldn't be in showbiz."

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