Location, Location, Location presenter Kirstie Allsopp has alleged Gregg Wallace made an inappropriate comment to her while they worked together.
On Thursday (November 28), it was announced that Wallace would step away from MasterChef after a series of complaints were made to the while an investigation into the allegations took place.
Today (December 1), Wallace went on to claim that the allegations of misconduct against him only come from “middle-class women of a certain age”.
His remarks have prompted a response from Allsopp, who took to X/Twitter today (December 1) to share her own experiences of working with Wallace, where she claims he made sexually inappropriate comments to her.
“Within 1hr of meeting Gregg Walllace he told me of a sex act that he & his partner at the time enjoyed “every morning”, she’d just left the room, we were filming a pilot. Did he get off on how embarrassed I was? It was totally unprofessional, I’m a #MiddleClassWomanOfaCertainAge,” she wrote.
Kirstie Allsopp has responded to Gregg Wallace’s latest post (Image: ITV)
She went on to address why she never reported the incident, saying: “Because you feel, in no particular order, embarrassed, a prude, shocked, waiting for a male colleague to call him out, not wanting to “rock the boat”, thinking it’s better to plough on with the day, assuming you misheard/misunderstood or just don’t get the joke.”
Wallace has not yet responded to Allsopp’s claims.
The MasterChef host has branded his accusers “middle-class women of a certain age” in an video where he addressed accusations about his behaviour on the programme.
He said: “Now I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20 years.
“Amateur, celebrity and professional MasterChef, and I think in that time I have worked with over 4,000 contestants of all different ages, of all different backgrounds, all walks of life.
“And apparently now, I’m reading in the paper there’s been 13 complaints in that time. Now in the newspaper 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.”
Gregg’s lawyers have strongly denied he engages in sexually harassing behaviour, while the said it will “always listen if people want to make us aware of something directly”.
Masterchef’s production company, Banijay UK, has launched an investigation and said Wallace is cooperating.