BBC MasterChef's Gregg Wallace's love life and family as he steps away from show

Gregg Wallace has stepped distant from MasterChef arsenic Banijay UK analyse misconduct allegations. The BBC presenter has been joined 4 times and has a son

Gregg Wallace has stepped distant from MasterChef amidst aggregate humanities allegations of misconduct.

The 60-year-old BBC presenter is facing accusations from 13 individuals who assertion helium made inappropriate intersexual remarks crossed respective shows implicit a span of 17 years. He has halted his enactment connected MasterChef portion the historical claims are being probed by the show's accumulation company, Banijay UK.

The steadfast stated that Wallace, who denies making unsuitable intersexual comments towards women, is "committed to afloat cooperating passim the process". A information of the connection read: "This week the BBC received complaints from individuals successful narration to humanities allegations of misconduct portion moving with presenter Gregg Wallace connected 1 of our shows.

A BBC spokesperson said: "We instrumentality immoderate issues that are raised with america earnestly and we person robust processes successful spot to woody with them. We are ever wide that immoderate behaviour which falls beneath the standards expected by the BBC volition not beryllium tolerated. Where an idiosyncratic is contracted straight by an outer accumulation institution we stock immoderate complaints oregon concerns with that institution and we volition ever enactment them erstwhile addressing them."

Wallace, who has been joined 4 times and divorced thrice, is presently joined to Anne-Marie Sterpini since 2016, reports the Daily Star. Wallace and his woman Anne-Marie, who person been hitched since 2016, had rather the quirky opening to their romance. It kicked disconnected successful 2013 erstwhile Anne-Marie messaged Gregg connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, cheekily enquiring whether rhubarb was a suitable lucifer for duck.

Wallace, intelligibly amused by the tweet, responded to Anne-Marie, who is implicit 2 decades his junior, starring them to put a meal date. Recounting the aboriginal days during an quality connected Lorraine, Wallace reminisced: "I sent her a connection and we started sending messages. Then I sent her my telephone number, this was 5 years ago."

He added: "She came down to London to person meal with me, and she said it wasn't until we got to the edifice that she was comfy it was truly maine and not an impostor." Opening up to Hello! magazine, Wallace expressed his archetypal attraction: "I conscionable looked astatine Anna's photograph and thought, "Wow, she's pretty", truthful yes, rhubarb, which was considered an aphrodisiac successful medieval times, brought america together."

The lovebirds yet said ‘I do’ astatine the stunning Hever Castle successful Kent, with Wallace's MasterChef workfellow John Torode doing the honours arsenic champion man. In May 2019, the mates welcomed their bundle of joyousness Sid Massimo Wallace into the world. Addressing their noticeable property difference, Wallace has confessed it gave him intermission for thought, sharing: "People look astatine you anyhow and I felt truly conscious due to the fact that she was younger and I didn’t privation radical to justice her harshly".

The presenter faced a question of disapproval earlier this twelvemonth aft immoderate accused him of neglecting his 4 twelvemonth aged autistic and non-verbal son. Wallace opened up astir his accustomed play activities successful The Telegraph's My Saturday column, revealing helium typically spends 90 minutes with Sid earlier taking 2 hours for himself to play video games.

The regular led to harsh comments, with immoderate labelling him a "monster" and drafting parallels to Steve Coogan's fictional quality Alan Partridge. His docket included an aboriginal emergence astatine 5am, a gym league with a backstage aquatics and sauna, meal astatine the section Harvester, a luncheon prepared by his woman Anna, followed by gaming time.

Wallace expressed to The Mirror his feelings astir the situation: "I didn't caput the mickey taking astir Alan Partridge, that I understood. But I was profoundly saddened by the thought I didn't walk immoderate clip with Sid, I was profoundly wounded by that."

He besides confessed that having different kid astatine his property wasn't thing helium would person chosen, but it was important to his spouse Anne-Marie. He stated: "I'm a overmuch amended begetter present I'm older, though different kid isn't thing that I would person chosen astatine my age. I was ever precise honorable with Anna, but it's what she wanted and I emotion her. I conscionable requested 2 things – that we had assistance successful the location (so her mum moved in), and secondly that we had astatine slightest 1 week a twelvemonth erstwhile we holidayed conscionable the 2 of us."

Wallace's existent woman isn't the lone pistillate he's met connected Twitter. He besides connected with his ex-wife, Heidi Brown, a biology teacher who is 17 years his junior, connected the societal media platform.

They moved successful unneurotic successful 2009, conscionable 4 months aft meeting, and were joined by the pursuing year. However, their matrimony ended aft conscionable 15 months, with Wallace calling it a "huge mistake".

Before Heidi, Wallace was joined to Denise, a pastry cook helium met successful 1993. They had 2 children together, Tom and Libby, earlier tying the knot successful 1999. However, aft 5 years of marriage, they divorced erstwhile Denise discovered Gregg was having an matter with 1 of his employees.

Wallace's archetypal woman was Christine, whom helium met erstwhile helium was 24 and moving arsenic a greengrocer. Their wedding was a speedy affair, celebrated with a repast astatine a adjacent pastry and mash shop. The matrimony of the personage was notably brief, lasting a specified six weeks. In his autobiography, Wallace humorously remarked that it mightiness person been "possibly the shortest matrimony successful the world".

He besides confessed to realising it was a mistake adjacent earlier they exchanged vows.

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