Rock legend Rod Stewart had one thing to get off his chest on Thursday, November 28, after MasterChef UK star Gregg Wallace was accused of sexual misconduct.
Stewart reacted to the information on social media, sharing a press release on Instagram the place he accused Wallace of “humiliating” his spouse, Penny Lancaster, when she was a contestant on Movie star MasterChef in 2021.
“So Greg Wallace will get fired from Grasp Chef. Good Riddance Wallace… You humiliated my spouse when she was on the present, however you had that half reduce out didn’t you?” he wrote. “You’re a tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully. Karma acquired ya.”
Wallace has been a fixture on British tv for years and is greatest identified for co-hosting BBC’s MasterChef and its numerous spinoffs, together with the long-running Movie star MasterChef.
On Thursday, the information broke that MasterChef‘s manufacturing firm, Banijay UK, had launched an investigation towards Wallace over allegations of inappropriate sexual feedback within the office. This consists of an accusation from long-time British TV presenter Kirsty Wark, who claimed Wallace informed “sexualized jokes” when she appeared on the present in 2011.
“There have been two events specifically the place he used sexualized language in entrance of plenty of folks, and it wasn’t as if anybody engaged with this,” Wark stated in a video shared by BBC Information. “It was fully one-way site visitors, however I feel folks had been uncomfortable, and [it was] one thing I didn’t actually anticipate to occur.”
Not less than 13 others have reported alleged cases of Wallace’s inappropriate habits on set, together with speaking overtly about his intercourse life, taking his high off in entrance of a feminine co-worker, and telling a junior feminine colleague he wasn’t sporting underwear below his denims.
Wallace has stepped away from MasterChef in gentle of the allegations, although Deadline stories that manufacturing will proceed on the collection regardless of his absence.
In a press release to BBC Information, Wallace’s attorneys denied their shopper has engaged in habits of a “sexually harassing nature.” A press release from Banijay UK additionally famous that Wallace is “dedicated to totally co-operating all through the method” of the investigation.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday night, Wallace shared a video along with his followers, saying, “I wish to thank all of the folks getting in contact, reaching out and exhibiting their assist.”