Kirstie Allsopp accuses Gregg Wallace of making inappropriate comments while they worked together
Wallace was stepping down from MasterChef after a series of complaints were made to the BBC.The allegations included a pattern of inappropriate sexual comments and actions made by Wallace to 13 people who worked with him over a period of 17 years, with the corporation passing the allegations onto Wallace’s representatives shortly before they were made public.Wallace’s lawyers said it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature, while the presenter himself posted a video on social media thanking fans for showing him support.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 this morning 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.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.”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.