AXED STAR

SHAMED MasterChef host Gregg Wallace has been sacked after 50 more people complained about him - but he has vowed to fight back.

- BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor

The 60-year-old accused BBC News of “peddling gossip” after it claimed to have received dozens of new complaints about him, ranging from sexual comments to groping.

Wallace accepts his humour was “inappropriate” on the show.

And a source close to him admits a social media video in which he lashed out at “middle-class women of a certain age” was a sackable offence.

But he still believes himself to be a victim and called the new claims “baseless and sensationalised”.

He insisted: “I will not go quietly. I will not be cancelled for convenience.”

MasterChef production company Banijay is expected to release the findings of a six-month review into his behaviour tomorrow or on Friday.

The review, by law firm Lewis Silkin, was ordered after allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour on the set of the BBC cooking show were made against Wallace last year.

His lawyers said then: “It is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature.”

A Banijay insider said many of the BBC's latest allegations are likely to have already been examined during the review.

One source who has read the 200-page report said Wallace's worst mistake was his December 2024 video about the initial allegations, in which he said: “The complaints [are] from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age.” The source added that alone was a “dismissible offence”.