BBC MasterChef host Gregg Wallace faces allegations of inappropriate sexual comments from 13 people across a range of shows over a 17-year period as he is being axed from the cooking show
John Mair, a former BBC producer, made an appearance on Friday's GB News Breakfast to discuss Gregg Wallace's temporary departure from MasterChef amid pending historical misconduct complaints' external investigation.
He remarked, "The BBC has been very unlucky; they have lost four presenters involuntarily in the last two months and two of them voluntarily. But, is the BBC being over cautious and as soon as there is a whiff of smoke, the BBC retreats and says, 'take them off air'," reports the Express. John remarked: "This story has got a lot of oxygen from Kirsty Wark who is well-respected and did a short, sharp, interview about it."
The television personality's legal representatives have stated, as per BBC News, "it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature". "Whilst these complainants have not raised the allegations directly with our show producers or parent company Banijay UK, we feel that it is appropriate to conduct an immediate, external review to fully and impartially investigate."
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