A source said staff working on MasterChef were told about a whistleblowing hotline staff concerned about Gregg Wallace's behaviour could use - and that was three years ago

Gregg Wallace is accused by 13 different people of making inappropriate sexual comments to co-workers over a 17-year period

Further accusations have been made against TV presenter Gregg Wallace in the wake of him stepping away from hosting hit BBC show MasterChef while a review into complaints is carried out.On Thursday, the cooking programme’s production company Banijay UK said the BBC received complaints from individuals in relation to “historical allegations of misconduct” while working with Wallace.

Sir Rod Stewart has hit out at “bully” Gregg Wallace for allegedly “humiliating” his wife when she was on MasterChef. The musician’s claims arrive after it was announced Wallace had stepped down from the BBC cookery competition following allegations of inappropriate sexual comments over several years.

Rod Stewart lambasted Gregg Wallace, calling him a ‘bully’ for ‘humiliating’ his wife Penny Lancaster when she appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2021. In a furious rant on Instagram, the Maggie May singer said: ‘So Gregg Wallace gets fired from MasterChef.