Lisa Faulkner has broken her silence following the controversy surrounding Gregg Wallace (Image: Ray Tang/REX)
Lisa Faulkner, wife of MasterChef presenter , has broken her silence following the controversy.
Wallace, 60, has stepped down from his role on the cooking programme amidst a storm of allegations regarding improper conduct on the programme.
Until now, Lisa, 52, had maintained silence over the unfolding scandal, which has prompted calls for the current series of MasterChef: The Professionals to be pulled from broadcast.
Breaking her silence, the former Cutting It actress shared a heartfelt tribute on .
Posting an image of her late ‘Nanna’ and her sister Victoria, she penned: “Happy heavenly birthday Nanna, miss you so much.”
Meanwhile, Wallace is reportedly furious that Lisa and her husband John have not come to his defence during the escalating scandal.
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Lisa shared an emotional post about her late grandma (Image: Instagram/Lisa Faulkner)
After John remained silent in the wake of numerous allegations made against him, of twenty years and his wife on social media.
Sources close to the father-of-three suggest he’s particularly hurt by John’s silence, especially after explosive responses from celebrities such as Sir Rod Stewart, Kirsty Wark, Charlotte Crosby, and Ulrika Jonsson.
The allegations against Wallace span over 17 years, with 13 individuals accusing him of making sexually inappropriate comments and jokes. He has vehemently refuted these claims through a statement from his legal team.
An insider revealed: “Gregg is absolutely furious and is convinced he has done nothing wrong. Seeing John keeping quiet amid all of this has irked him hugely.
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Wallace has stepped down from MasterChef (Image: BBC)
“Gregg and John have been colleagues for almost two decades and while they aren’t the closest of friends, Gregg feels John could say something.”
“He has deleted them from his account now and unfollowed both of them. It might seem petty from Gregg but he is furious about how this has all played out,” confided the source to .
Lisa previously accused Gregg of making “rude joke after rude joke” during her stint on MasterChef in 2010 as she promoted their latest cookbook, John and Lisa’s Kitchen, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Recalling one particularly crude jest, the actress confessed: “I’m probably not allowed to say this. You’re just sitting there and if you’re on the front bench just chopping away thinking, ‘I’ve got ten minutes left’, and he’s saying, ‘So this girl walked into a bar…’ And I’m going, ‘Please, I don’t want to hear this joke’.”