Gregg Wallace whistleblower claims ‘nothing was done’ when she raised concerns

When concerns about Gregg Wallace’s behavior were first raised, a former TV producer asserts that nothing was done.

The 60-year-old MasterChef judge has been accused of acting inappropriately while producing his BBC shows in recent weeks. Wallace, who has hosted MasterChef since 2005, has already denied all the allegations against him through his representatives, but took actions into his own hands on Sunday morning.

He attacked criticism of him on Instagram and claimed he had no complaints in his 20 years of television work. Wallace, who resigned from the show last week after a probe into allegations of his conduct was launched, described his accusers as “a few middle-class women of a certain age” and claimed that some of the women on MasterChef had made their own sexual comments.

Georgia Harding, a former producer on MasterChef between 2014 and 2015, claimed this week that Wallace “made inappropriate sexual jokes” in front of his coworkers and guests on the shows. Harding claimed that she was the first production official to discuss his alleged behavior in public.

The producer claimed that Wallace’s treatment of contributors “appeared to be acceptable behavior” and that “nothing was done” about it despite the claims that she raised concerns. Harding said: “It was like ‘ oh that’s Gregg'”. She claimed he “spoke about sex a lot” and “would get changed on set despite having a changing room” to The Telegraph.

In his Instagram Stories videos, Gregg challenged the accusations against him and said: “I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20 years. Amateur, Celebrity and Professional MasterChef. And in that time, I have worked with over 4, 000 contestants of all different ages, all different backgrounds, all walks of life. And apparently now, I’m reading in the paper, there’s been 13 complaints in that time. A select few middle-class women of a certain age are expressing their opinions in the newspaper, just like Celebrity MasterChef. This isn’t right”.

He continued in a second video: “In 20 years of television, can you imagine how many women, female contestants, on MasterChef have made sexual remarks or sexual innuendo. Can you imagine”?

And in a further video message to fans, he commented: “This is important to me. Twenty years of doing Celebrity MasterChef, Amateur, Professional, Eat Well For Less, Inside the Factory… Do you know how many staff, all different sorts of staff, can you imagine the people I’ve worked with? How many employees criticized me during that time, exactly? … Absolutely none. Zero. Seriously”.

It is entirely false that Wallace engages in sexually harassing behavior, according to Wallace’s attorneys. Additionally, the BBC said in a statement that “we take any issues that are brought up with us seriously and have effective solutions.” We are always making it clear that any behavior that does not meet the standards set by the BBC will be tolerated.

When an individual is employed by an external production company, we communicate any grievances or concerns to that organization and will always assist them when they are contacted. We wouldn’t be able to make any comments on anything that might affect or be related to Banijay’s ongoing investigation.

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Source: Mirror