Gregg Wallace slams BBC MasterChef accusers as 'middle-class women of certain age'

Gregg Wallace has slammed his accusers in a blistering statement as he returned to social media on Sunday morning (December 1). The under-fire BBC MasterChef star has addressed the allegations against him in a defiant video posted online.

Gregg, who judges MasterChef with John Torode, says the accusations come from "middle-class women of a certain age". He says he has worked with 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 said, adding: "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."

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In a second video, he says to his Instagram followers: "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?"

The 60 year old BBC Inside the Factory star stepped down from his role on the hit BBC cooking competition earlier this week after it was announced that producer Banijay was investigating historical allegations of misconduct.

The formal complaints, which included Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, claimed he’d made a series of ‘inappropriate sexual jokes’ and that the star walked around the studio ‘almost completely naked’ and ‘mimicked sex acts.’

Yesterday, Wallace provided a cryptic update via his Instagram stories – posting a picture of a gingerbread man ensconced in what appears to be a pile of whipped cream. The bizarre image comes accompanied with the caption ‘enjoy your weekend.’

He previously broke his silence with an Instagram video thanking those who had supported him so far. And he shared an image from an article by the Telegraph which compared him to controversial comedian Bernard Manning but described him as a ‘top bloke.’