Gregg Wallace’s mum says MasterChef star ‘is fine’ and has ‘no idea’ what BBC ‘sexual comments’ probe is about

GREGG Wallace's mum has breached her soundlessness aft the presenter stepped down from MasterChef amid caller allegations.

It comes arsenic the presenter, 60, has been accused of making "sexual comments to 13 colleagues" and mimicking a enactment enactment successful beforehand of horrified colleagues.

His parent Mary Pettman told the Mail Gregg is "fine" amid the probe.

The 81-year-old said today: "He's fine. I talk to my lad rather regularly and helium is fine."

Of the probe and erstwhile Gregg volition instrumentality to MasterChef, she added: "I person nary thought what it's about. You volition person to talk to him."

Gregg has besides breached his soundlessness since amid the allegations.

He said successful an Instagram video: "I would similar to convey each the radical getting successful touch, scope retired and showing their support.

"That's bully of you, convey you precise much."

the presenter stepped down from his MasterChef judging relation aft a probe was launched into alleged "sexual comments".

Now, a caller question of allegations person been reported by the Daily Telegraph.

The BBC besides revealed 13 people, including Newsnight big Kirsty Walk, accused him of "inappropriate behaviour" implicit a 17-year period across 5 shows, from 2005 to 2022. 

These see claims that Gregg held a pistillate MasterChef colleague's caput and thrust himself towards her portion she was kneeling down successful beforehand of him cleaning a people disconnected his trousers.

He is besides accused of walking into the MasterChef studio “completely bare but for [a] sock pulled implicit his penis” earlier doing a “silly dance”, the Telegraph - who spoke to a witnesser of the incidental - reports.

Gregg's lawyers told the BBC it was wholly mendacious that helium had engaged successful behaviour of a sexually harassing nature.

The Telegraph enquiry was instigated aft the alleged unfortunate made a ceremonial ailment to the BBC.

The ailment further alleged the presenter was “very touchy feely” and made “disgusting sex-related jokes”.

It comes as...

• Gregg Wallace has today stepped down from MasterChef
• Star faces probe aft allegedly making intersexual remarks to 13 colleagues
• He was forced to discontinue amid the BBC's misconduct probe into his alleged behaviour
• BBC Newsnight presenter and 2011 contestant Kirsty Wark says Wallace told 'sexualised' jokes portion filming
• Gregg accused of talking openly astir his enactment life, taking his apical disconnected successful beforehand of a young staffer staffer and telling different helium wasn't wearing immoderate pants
• Previous MasterChef episodes presented by scandal-hit Gregg inactive connected iPlayer
• MasterChef star Aasmah Mir shares cryptic 'always support your receipts' post
• BBC will inactive aerial 2 Masterchef festive specials this Christmas - contempt some being fronted by Gregg Wallace

Banijay UK, which makes the deed BBC cooking show, said it was carrying retired “an immediate, outer reappraisal to afloat and impartially investigate”.

A spokesperson said: "While this reappraisal is underway, Gregg Wallace will 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.

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

A BBC spokesperson added: “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.”

Recorded episodes of MasterChef: The Professionals featuring Gregg volition inactive beryllium shown arsenic planned contempt the development.

It comes aft the MasterChef co-host was seen smiling extracurricular his Kent home today.

Gregg was archetypal accused of making "inappropriate intersexual comments" to a pistillate BBC staffer connected Impossible Celebrities.

Some 13 radical who worked with the presenter crossed a scope of shows implicit a 17-year play person present accused him of making intersexual comments, the BBC confirmed today.