Gregg Wallace: Law firm to investigate allegations against MasterChef presenter
Wallace, 60, stepped down from the BBC cooking demonstrate on Thursday amid accusations he made sexual comments towards group and celeb web site visitors on an excessive amount of programmes over 17 years.
Banijay UK, the firm that makes the programme, on Saturday mentioned it had appointed Lewis Silkin to e book an investigation and known as for anybody else wishing to elevate concerns to contact the regulations firm’s crew.
“Lewis Silkin is a critical City regulations firm with a highly skilled specialist investigations crew which has overseen a nice fluctuate of high-profile situation of job investigations,” it mentioned.
“Banijay UK has been impressed by the firm’s rigorous, in-depth, and unbiased analysis and reporting.”
A spokesperson added: “All files will seemingly be handled sensitively, and names of those providing evidence to the crew will seemingly be kept confidential.”
Wallace has been a presenter on the programme since 2005, moreover its jog-offs Celeb MasterChef and MasterChef: The Mavens.
Banijay beforehand mentioned he has “dedicated to entirely co-working for the interval of the technique” after the BBC got complaints over “historical allegations of misconduct”.
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In an interview with the BBC, Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark mentioned she noticed Wallace “squawk sexualised language in front of a alternative of of us” when she regarded on Celeb MasterChef in 2011.
Singer Sir Rod Stewart criticised Wallace on Instagram and claimed he “humiliated” his companion Penny Lancaster in 2021.
The presenter is but to without delay address any of the allegations and on Saturday posted an Instagram message of a biscuit dunked in cream with the caption: “Rep pleasure from your weekend.”
In a video posted to the region on Thursday he mentioned: “I would truly like to thank your complete of us entering into touch, reaching out and showing their strengthen.
“Or no longer it’s magnificent of you, thank you a good deal.”
The TV smartly-known particular person’s lawyers mentioned “it’s entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature”, BBC News reported.
On Friday, the charity Ambitious About Autism mentioned it had dropped him as an envoy citing the “contemporary allegations”.
Wallace has three childhood and his youngest, 5-year-mature Sid, is non-verbal and autistic.