Celebrity chef Rick Stein says he feels 'a bit sorry' for Gregg Wallace

The 78-year-old personage cook said it would "affect maine terribly" if helium recovered himself successful a akin concern to the MasterChef presenter

Celebrity Chef Rick Stein has said helium feels "a spot sorry" for Gregg Wallace. He spoke aft TV presenter Wallace stepped distant from hosting MasterChef pursuing a big of misconduct complaints.

Rick said helium felt what happened to Wallace was "unfortunate". Presenter Gregg has stepped backmost from the deed BBC One cooking amusement arsenic accumulation institution Banijay UK investigates claims of alleged misconduct.

Rick, 78, besides said that it would "affect maine terribly" if helium recovered himself successful a akin situation, adding that helium had not "got immoderate skeletons successful a cupboard". In an interrogation with The Telegraph, Stein suggested Wallace is "just a antithetic property to me".

Rick said: "I deliberation partially helium hadn’t truly taken connected that you can’t accidental definite things now. It’s not truthful overmuch that helium was a nasty person. I’m fortunate that I’ve got sons who volition instantly archer me, ‘listen, you can’t accidental this’. And if you don’t prime up connected that, the information that things change, good that’s not precise clever.

"Sometimes you think, ‘I can’t judge this’, and past you deliberation ‘well, that’s the mode it is’. There’s nary constituent successful getting each stroppy astir it. I consciousness a spot atrocious for him really. But I don’t similar sleaziness truthful I’m not saying that (about each of Wallace’s alleged behaviour). But helium conscionable didn’t realise that the upwind had changed."

Wallace’s lawyers antecedently told the BBC "it is wholly mendacious that helium engages successful behaviour of a sexually harassing nature". BBC bosses antecedently said the corp volition not "tolerate behaviour that falls beneath the standards we expect" and volition proceed to champion "a civilization that is kind, inclusive and respectful," and a memo sent to unit said the corp would beryllium supporting MasterChef shaper Banijay UK successful its investigation.

Earlier this month, Banijay UK said successful a statement: "It is important to enactment that MasterChef payment processes are regularly adapted and strengthened and determination are wide protocols to enactment some unit and contributors. These see aggregate ways of reporting issues, including anonymously. HR interaction details are promoted and contributors are assigned a constituent of interaction connected acceptable disposable to sermon immoderate issues oregon concerns."

While the astir caller bid of MasterChef: The Professionals continued to aerial past year, 2 MasterChef personage Christmas specials were pulled from the BBC’s docket successful December 2024.