Gregg Wallace’s strangest controversies after he drops out of MasterChef

MasterChef prima Gregg Wallace has courted contention implicit the years for a scope of reasons.

The presenter, 60, is best known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals.

However, he is present stepping down from the franchise after the BBC announced it was investigating humanities allegations of misconduct against him.

It comes aft Wallace was accused of making inappropriate intersexual comments to a pistillate subordinate of unit including boasting astir his enactment beingness and taking his apical disconnected successful beforehand of different worker successful 2018.

He was besides accused of being rude and insulting to women connected a antithetic programme past year.

The BBC received complaints from radical who had worked with Wallace, saying it took the allegations ‘seriously’.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Wallace, who antecedently denied the claims against him, has travel nether the spotlight, with respective different controversies unfolding successful the past.

Thinking helium deserves a statue successful Trafalgar Square for ‘saving the nation’

Earlier this twelvemonth Wallace suggested helium deserved important recognition for ‘saving the nation’ from obesity.

After spending years campaigning for the nationalist to amended their eating habits, the presenter said helium was hopeful his efforts could gain him a statue successful London’s Trafalgar Square.

During an quality connected the Monday Mile with Aimee Fuller podcast, helium boasted: ‘[All] I bash is thatch them to cook. And I person had specified bonzer successes.

‘I’ve got 1 lady, she’s similar a pin-up miss for me. She’s mislaid 12 chromatic successful 2 years. She’s fundamentally mislaid 2 Gregg Wallaces!’

Although helium admitted his enactment filled him with an ‘immense consciousness of purpose’ helium inactive held sedate concerns.

‘I’m besides tense for the nation, I’m tense for the NHS, and the outgo to the federation of rising obesity, bosom disease, cancers, kidney issues, liver issues, genu joints, hep joints, fertility issues, and the outgo to the NHS of picking up the measure and trying to header with a federation that’s making itself much and much unwell connected a week by week ground done its nutrient choices. Didn’t expect this astir me, did you?

‘Your grandchildren are going to thrust past Trafalgar Square 1 time and there’s going to beryllium a statue of Gregg Wallace successful a toga holding a pineapple due to the fact that helium saved the nation.’

Accusations of being a ‘bad dad’

At the commencement of the twelvemonth Wallace besides drew the ire of galore aft a file astir his play regular saw him branded a ‘bad dad’.

Explaining his Saturday greeting regular successful the Telegraph Magazine, Wallace explained it progressive going to the gym – wherever unit fto him successful up of everyone other – heading to the section Harvester for meal and his woman having luncheon ‘ready connected the table’ erstwhile helium returned home.

He besides admitted that having his youngest child, four-year-old Sid, arsenic an older begetter successful his 50s ‘isn’t thing that I would person chosen astatine my age’.

Wallace past went connected to explicate however helium spent 90 minutes playing with his son.

Soon aft the presenter revealed helium was ‘close to tears’, responding to the backlash and saying it was ‘unfair’, particularly accusations helium didn’t walk capable clip with his kid and that Sid was ‘unwanted’.

Labelling the interrogation ‘innocent’, Wallace urged radical to retrieve helium was quality and had been near ‘deeply saddened’ by the reaction.

‘Boasting’ astir his slim figure

A determination by Wallace to uncover helium and woman Anne-Marie Sterpini, 36, ‘don’t diet’ past twelvemonth was slammed by many.

While promoting his manner plan, he revealed his nonstop value successful an Instagram post, moving done their attack to nutrient and health.

In 2017 Wallace overhauled his manner and mislaid 5 chromatic aft a doc warned him that helium was astatine large hazard of a life-threatening bosom attack.

In the years since he’s encouraged his fans to besides priorities their wellness but his connection successful September, which was shared alongside a photograph of the mates successful their swimwear, was called ‘bragging’ by some’.

‘We are slim and well, the brace of us. I measurement conscionable implicit 12 stone. We don’t diet, successful information we devour large meals each day!’ Gregg captioned the post.

‘Anna has ne'er been successful a gym,’ helium added.

‘What we’ve learned is however to devour healthily, not beryllium hungry, not willpower and not information control!

‘I’ve helped hundreds of people, and I tin assistance you too.’

Some disgruntled followers past went connected to telephone retired what they branded his ‘privilege’.

Shocking viewers with a documentary astir ‘cannibalism’

Although Wallace mightiness person sampled galore antithetic dishes implicit the years during his clip connected MasterChef, a ‘human meat’ mockumentary wasn’t stomached good past year.

The Channel 4 programme The British Miracle Meat saw him sojourn a mill that ‘harvested quality cells to nutrient burgers and steak’ astatine fund terms points to bushed the cost-of-living crisis.

Viewers were appalled arsenic idiosyncratic were shown processing a caller scope of ‘premium’ products, made from the ’tissue of children nether the property of six’ and called ‘toddler tartare’.

Despite the information it was a satirical show, hundreds submitted complaints to Ofcom, with 1 furious spectator saying it was ‘disgusting’.

Speaking retired successful defence of the programme, Wallace said it ‘raised important questions astir the nation’s narration with nutrient and what those struggling with the outgo of surviving are being asked to bash successful bid to enactment afloat’.

He went connected to explicate the squad down it consulted with experts to ‘make definite what we were saying reflected what is really happening and didn’t rotation into the realms of subject fiction’ but that if we didn’t commencement to tackle the outgo of nutrient and devour much healthily ‘the imaginable of quality nutrient connected the paper mightiness not look truthful far-fetched aft all’.

Snubbing a crab foundation due to the fact that his sanction was misspelt

In 2013 Wallace was lambasted for shutting down a petition to assistance beforehand fundraising for a crab charity.

At the clip a subordinate of the nationalist shared this petition connected Twitter: ‘Hi Greg. I americium cycling conscionable implicit 180 miles successful 2 days for Macmillan Cancer Support. Any accidental of a retweet?’

Instead of expressing an involvement successful helping, helium replied with 1 word, correcting the spelling of his name: ‘Gregg?’

Hitting back, the archetypal poster told the presenter to ‘not interest mate’.

‘It’s lone radical with cancer. You interest astir your other G.’

On his blog soon aft Wallace expressed his annoyance with radical spelling his sanction incorrectly, which had happened for ‘as agelong arsenic I tin remember’.

‘I didn’t garbage to assistance him, I conscionable thought it was polite that if helium was asking maine for something, helium should astatine slightest get my sanction right,’ helium wrote.

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