BBC MasterChef star Marcus Wareing shows true colours with Gregg Wallace remark

Marcus Wareing has let slip his true feelings on Gregg Wallace amid the ongoing BBC MasterChef scandal. Before MasterChef: The Professionals' 15th series last year, Marcus touched on clashes with Gregg ahead of the series airing.

He admitted it "it f***s it all up" when Wallace has a say in the decision-making. He said ahead of the professional series airing: "If it was just me and Monica, then we're good at predicting the winner, but because Gregg is in the mix, it f***s it all up a bit.

"We have times where we do disagree but everyone's entitled to their point of view." Speaking at the time, he added: "There are three votes and in the early days I'd be fighting like a cat in a bag but now it's like, 'whatever'"

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BBC News last week aired allegations from 13 people spanning a range of ages, who worked across five different programmes, who made allegations of inappropriate sexual comments by Wallace, who has faced allegations since last week.

Melanie Sykes has also revealed she made an informal complaint about Wallace, saying that having to work with him on Celebrity MasterChef in 2021 was the reason why she quit TV. In the YouTube video, she addressed what she described as last week’s “bombshell” news around Wallace and said: “Every time Gregg came over to the desk, I didn’t really like him being around.”

Sykes also said that she had complained after her stint on the show, adding: “I said I didn’t want to make a formal complaint because I’d spend all my time in litigation and I think that is one of the reasons why people don’t go for it.”

Stephen Fry told Sky News on Tuesday morning that it was “unbelievably foolish” of Wallace to publish his “middle-class women of a certain age” video. He said: “Good manners have changed. In Victorian times, certain things couldn’t be referred to or seen and it was only polite to obey this because people were shocked and upset if things were not respected that they respect.

“And so I think we’ve all just got to realise it’s not about wokeness, it’s just about being sensitive to the atmosphere.”