BBC Breakfast was halted this morning for a major breaking news announcement regarding MasterChef host Gregg Wallace.
The star has been at the centre of historic misconduct allegations which he vehemently denies, and he today took to to address the claims made against him (December 1).
Breakfast hosts Ben Thompson and Luxmy Gopal paused the show to give viewers the latest update.
“In the past hour, Gregg Wallace has posted two videos on his about the allegations made against him during his time on MasterChef, let’s show you those videos now,” said Luxmy, as the clips were brought up on-screen.
In the footage, Gregg could be seen speaking directly into the camera in a cream room covered with framed photos.
BBC Breakfast was interrupted by a big announcement (Image: BBC)
In the first clip, Gregg recounted reading about “13 complaints” made against him from a “handful of middle-class women of a certain age, just from Celebrity MasterChef”, before stating: “This isn’t right.”
In the second video, he continued: “In 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?”
The videos come just hours after Gregg posted a cryptic photo of what appeared to be a grey pavement to his feed with the words ‘We are all different’ over the top of the image. Meanwhile his lawyers say: “It is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature.”
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