Gregg Wallace defends himself against allegations

Gregg Wallace has depended on his most agitated accusations about him, insisting on “not all are true.”

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Wallace, who moved away by presenting Masterchef last November following the statements against him, said he felt “under attack” and that he had contemplated suicide.

A BBC news investigation revealed accusations of inappropriate sexual comments of 13 people who had worked with Wallace Arross a variety of shows, approximately a period of 17 years.

Since then, more claims have emerged from “grip” and “playing”, all of which Wallace has strongly denied.

The Masterchef production company, Banijay, has launched an investigation into historical accusations.

In his first interview since the statements arose, Wallace said he had recovered “a wave of tide abuse” on social networks after publishing a video on Instagram hitting his accusers.

In the video, for which he apologized subsequently, he said that the statements against him had come from “a handful of middle class women of a certain age.”

“The news channels were updated per hour with new accusations,” he said.

“You are seeing yourself shattering personally, criticized, accused of all kinds of things about and again. You are thinking,” this is not true. It isn’t true. What will come next? “

Wallace said I could not sleep at that time, and added: “The feeling of being under attack, isolation or abandonment was too harmful. No one from the BBC contacted me once these stories begin to break, absolutely no one at all.”

The BBC and Banijay declined to comment.

Wallace said at that time, his mother called him to ask why people were “picking it up.”

He said he replied: “I have said something really stupid. They are investigating my behavior, but more and more people present complaints about me. Mom, not all are true. I port.

Wallace revealed that his mother died recently, adding that he was “terrible sad” that would have spent the last days of his life reading “horrible things” about him.

One of the women who spoke with BBC News as part of her investigation was the Kirsty Warrsty station, who appeared in Celebrity Masterchef.

Wark accused Wallace of the “sexualized jokes” account “the filming of the program, and said he left people feeling” uncomfortable. “

But Wallace says she never knew that she had offended her until she came to light last year, “I thought we took ourselves.”

Other high -profile media personalities, including Vanessa Feltz and Kirstie Allsopp, also spoke at that time.

Wallace said Fentinz’s complaint “hit him for six”, and also withdrew Alsopp comments about his language, saying: “I would have said that.”

Writing on Instagram in November, the singer Sir Rod Stewart described Wallace as a “misfortune moderate”, and said that the presenter “humiliated” his wife Penny Lancaster when he was in Masterchef in 2021.

When heading to that statement, Wallace said it was a “shame” since he liked Sir Rod. Hi, he acknowledged that he had a “fall” between him and Lancaster, but said it was “if an orchid should go to a bowl of soup or not.”

Hi, he also addressed other accusations that arose towards the end of last year, including one that had walked naked with a sock in his penis.

He admitted having put a “sock over my private fragments” and having opened his dressing room shouting “hearing”, but he claimed this to three friends who were in the studio after the film had finished, instead of while it was.

He admitted that some of the inappropriate jokes were “probable true”, saying: “Part of what Leg says sounds like the type of comments he had done.”

But he insisted that they never groped workers, calling those statements “absolutely not true.”

Hello, he also said that many of those who work with him had offered his support, including John Torode, his co -presenter in Masterchef.

Torode has not responded to a request for comments.

When Banijay launched an investigation, Wallace said his “world fell.”

“It is very different to explain the pressure unless I lose it. I thought about suicide all the time:” Is my insurance updated? Willpower [Wallace’s wife] Anna gets some money? She doesn’t work this. It would be better if I were Nour. ”

He told the newspaper that Banijay had arranged that a crisis mentor supported him.

Wallace said that I was recently diagnosed with autism, saying: “I want to make clear my behavior to my diagnosis, but it explains a lot.”

Hey added that he accepts that it was “very slow to wake up” to a changing work environment.

“It was not a year ago that I had a massive call call and I realized the strong and energetic character of Grenger who was on television, perhaps, becoming redundant. So I changed.”

“Honestly, I never wanted to bother anyone. I thought I was going to enter every day and simply deliver what you wanted. I didn’t realize that I was causing any problem.”

Wallace has been one of Great’s high profile presenters for more than two decades.

BBC News, which is editorially independent of the broadest organization, began investigating Wallace last summer, after realizing the accusations. The statements were made in five shows, from 2005 to 2022.

Most accusations come from production workers. Many were young freelancers.

The listened accusations include Wallace openly talking about their sexual life, removing the upper part in front of a worker saying that he wanted to “give him a fashion parade” and tell a junior colleague who wore any Shorts Boxer under the jeans.

BBC News has also heard from a former chef worker who says he showed him topless photos of herself and asked for massages, and a former worker of the great weekends of Gregg Wallace of Channel 5, who says she fascinated her the fact that she dedicated himself.

Another Masterchef worker in 2019 says that Wallace spoke about her sex life; A worker at the BBC Good Food Show in 2010 says that Wallace looked at his chest; And a male worker in Masterchef in 2005-06 says that the usual Wallace clients said explicit sexual things in the set.

After the initial BBC News research, more women presented claims.

A woman says she touched her butt in an event and another says she pressed her crotch against her while filming in a different show.

His lawyers have strongly denied that he gets involved in the behavior of a nature of sexual harassment.

Wallace has repeatedly rejected a BBC News interview application.

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