Gregg Wallace has responded to the mounting allegations against him in a defiant video posted online, saying the accusations come from “middle-class women of a certain age”.
Wallace, who has stepped back from presenting the BBC cooking show MasterChef after accusations he made sexual comments towards staff and celebrity guests on a range of programmes over 17 years, says he has worked with more than 4,000 contestants over the years “of all different ages, background and walks of life”.
“Apparently now, I’m reading in the paper, there’s been 13 complaints in that time,” Wallace says in the video, posted on Instagram.
“I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age, just from Celebrity Masterchef. This isn’t right.”
In a second video, he says: “In 20 years, over 20 years of television, can you imagine how many women, female contestants on Masterchef, have made sexual remarks, or sexual innuendo, can you imagine?”
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