Gregg Wallace has responded to the mounting allegations towards him in a defiant video posted on-line, saying the accusations come from “middle-class women of a certain age”.
Wallace, who has stepped again from presenting the BBC cooking present MasterChef after accusations he made sexual feedback in the direction of employees and superstar friends on a spread of programmes over 17 years, stated he has labored with greater than 4,000 contestants over time “of all different ages, background and walks of life”.
“Apparently now, I’m reading in the paper, there’s been 13 complaints in that time,” Wallace stated within the video posted on Instagram.
“I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age, just from Celebrity MasterChef. This isn’t right.”
In a second video, he stated: “In 20 years, over 20 years of television, can you imagine how many women, female contestants on MasterChef, have made sexual remarks, or sexual innuendo, can you imagine?”
On Saturday Banijay UK, the manufacturing firm which makes the programme, referred to as for anybody wishing to boost allegations into alleged misconduct to contact authorized agency Lewis Silkin.
It has been appointed to steer an investigation.
A spokesperson stated: “All information will be handled sensitively, and names of those providing evidence to the team will be kept confidential.”
Wallace has been a presenter on the programme since 2005, in addition to its spin-offs Celeb MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals.
Banijay beforehand stated he has “committed to fully co-operating throughout the process” after the BBC acquired complaints over “historical allegations of misconduct”.
Singer Sir Rod Stewart criticised Wallace on Instagram and claimed he “humiliated” his spouse Penny Lancaster in 2021.
The presenter is but to instantly handle any of these allegations.
On Friday, the charity Formidable About Autism stated it had dropped him as an envoy citing the “recent allegations”.
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