Gregg Wallace has issued his first assertion since greater than a dozen ladies accused him of creating inappropriate sexual feedback and inappropriate habits.
The MasterChef host took to Instagram to report a video by which he hit out at his accusers, saying the accusations come from a “handful of middle-class ladies of a sure age.”
“I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20 years – newbie, skilled and Superstar MasterChef – and I feel in that point I’ve labored with over 4,000 contestants of all completely different ages, all completely different backgrounds, all walks of life,” Wallace stated. “And apparently now, I’m studying within the paper, there’s been 13 complaints in that point. Now, within the newspaper I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class ladies of a sure age simply from Superstar MasterChef. This isn’t proper.”
The accusations had been revealed in a BBC Information investigation from 13 ladies together with ex-Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, who got here on the report to say the 60-year-old TV host informed tales and made jokes of a “sexualized nature” on at the very least two events in entrance of colleagues and contestants.
Since then, the likes of Rod Stewart have additionally come out publicly towards Wallace. Stewart stated Wallace humiliated his spouse Penny Lancaster when she was on MasterChef. Radio host Aasmah Mir additionally stated she complained to the BBC a number of years in the past about inappropriate feedback Wallace had allegedly made throughout filming. Others informed the BBC Wallace down the years talked overtly about his intercourse life, took his high off in entrance of a feminine employee and informed a junior feminine colleague he wasn’t carrying any boxer shorts underneath his denims. In a letter to BBC Information, Wallace’s attorneys denied he engaged in habits of a “sexually harassing nature.”
Wallace completed his assertion by saying: “In over 20 years of tv, are you able to think about what number of ladies, feminine contestants on MasterChef, have made sexual remarks or sexual innuendo – are you able to think about?”
Wallace has stepped again from MasterChef whereas producer Banijay UK conducts a probe, though cameras will proceed rolling on the BBC sequence.
