Gregg Wallace breaks cover after stepping away from MasterChef role amid BBC probe

Gregg Wallace released a remark aft quality broke that helium was to measurement backmost from his relation connected MasterChef arsenic BBC investigates misconduct claims

Gregg Wallace has breached his soundlessness aft it was revealed he is stepping away from his MasterChef duties.

It comes amid an probe by the BBC into misconduct claims. Wallace, who was the big of the cooking show, has denied allegations of inappropriate intersexual comments helium is said to person made.

Former Newsnight big Kirsty Wark is among 13 people who person accused the MasterChef presenter of making inappropriate intersexual comments, BBC News reported. Kirsty appeared connected the BBC cooking amusement successful 2011 and has claimed that Wallace told “jokes of a sexualised nature" connected 2 occasions during filming.

Speaking to BBC News , Kirsty said Wallace’s alleged remarks were "really, truly successful the incorrect place".

Wallace, 60, is “committed to afloat cooperating passim the process” during the BBC's probe process, a connection from the show’s accumulation institution Banijay UK to the PA quality bureau said.

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. 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 underway, Gregg Wallace volition beryllium stepping distant from his relation connected MasterChef and is committed to afloat cooperating 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."

It continued: "Whilst these are humanities allegations, incidences brought to our attraction wherever these expectations are not met, are thoroughly investigated and addressed appropriately."

The BBC has said it takes immoderate issues that are raised with it “seriously” aft it was announced Wallace volition measurement distant from his relation connected MasterChef portion complaints made to the corp from individuals astir humanities allegations of misconduct are investigated.

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 has been co-presenter of MasterChef with John Torode since 2005. Other shows helium has been progressive with see Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals, portion helium besides featured connected Eat Well for Less?, Inside the Factory and Time Commanders.

He has besides been the presenter connected a fig of question documentaries for Channel 5 and ITV.

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