Gregg Wallace accused of groping three different women including one on MasterChef set

Gregg Wallace, the big of the BBC's MasterChef shows, has been accused of groping galore women - including connected the acceptable of the cooking programme - pursuing allegations of inappropriate on-set comments

Gregg Wallace is reportedly facing allegations that helium groped 3 women - with the caller claims emerging a time aft helium was accused of making inappropriate intersexual comments connected the acceptable of the BBC's MasterChef shows, which helium denied earlier this week.

The 60-year-old presenter is facing accusations that helium groped 1 pistillate portion the cameras were rolling connected the acceptable of MasterChef. It has been reported that Wallace past yelled maltreatment astatine the pistillate erstwhile she moved distant from him and she scalded her hand.

It is reported that the pistillate reacted to Wallace's alleged actions and made it wide she was not blessed with his behaviour, but said that she "had her paper marked" for not considering the brushwood arsenic "banter". A 2nd pistillate claimed Wallace allegedly approached her successful a pub and made lewd comments to her and helium allegedly squeezed her bottom.

While writer and histrion Emma Kennedy has already publically claimed she witnessed Wallace attack a pistillate photographer's adjunct and "feel her a**e" portion she was bent over. Kennedy claimed the incidental took spot successful 2012 and she complained to amusement bosses astatine the time. The Mirror has approached Wallace's spokesperson for remark connected the allegations and they referred to their earlier statement.

The Sun has published the allegations of 1 of the women who was allegedly groped, with her telling the publication: “At the commencement of filming helium came up down maine arsenic I stood astatine my counter, and looked implicit my shoulder. “He enactment his hands connected my hips, moved to the backmost of me, and pressed into me. I made an ‘Eeew’ sound, and stepped forward. It was my instant reaction.

" But it acceptable his mangy teeth connected borderline and helium moved connected without saying anything. I wanted him to cognize you don’t play this game. I was reasoning I’ve prepared truthful agelong for this contention and it’s successful his hands whether I spell through. But astatine the aforesaid clip I’m not going to prostitute myself for immoderate cooking show."

The pistillate goes connected to callback scalding her manus connected blistery h2o astir instantly aft the incident, and she claims Wallace said "You anserine f***ing cow" astatine her. She went connected to allege Wallace offered her nary assistance during her infinitesimal of request - and besides alleged helium was rude to unit moving connected the show. She besides claims helium "pushed" a camerawoman and ordered her to get retired of his way.

On Thursday, it was announced that Wallace is "committed to afloat co-operating" with an outer reappraisal by MasterChef’s accumulation company, Banijay UK. A connection said: "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. Whilst these complainants person not raised the allegations straight with our amusement producers oregon genitor institution Banijay UK, we consciousness that it is due to behaviour an immediate, outer reappraisal to afloat and impartially investigate.

“While this reappraisal is nether way, Gregg Wallace volition beryllium stepping distant from his relation connected MasterChef and is committed to afloat co-operating passim the process. Banijay UK’s work of attraction to unit is ever a precedence and our expectations regarding behaviour are made wide to some formed and unit connected each productions, with aggregate ways of raising concerns, including anonymously, intelligibly promoted connected set.

"Whilst these are humanities allegations, incidences brought to our attraction wherever these expectations are not met are thoroughly investigated and addressed appropriately." The connection added: "If anyone would similar to speech to america oregon rise immoderate issues oregon concerns, past they tin interaction speakup@banijayuk.com successful confidence."

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."

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