Gregg Wallace Fired from MasterChef Amid Multiple Misconduct Allegations

Sophie, another young worker on MasterChef, recalls being groped by the presenter at a wrap party at the end of the 2013 series. At the time, the show was produced by Shine.

She says she was standing at the bar talking to Wallace and his co-host John Torode. As she was about to leave, she says: 'Someone squeezed my bum, a full-handed squeeze. I turned around and it was Gregg.'

It was done 'covertly', Sophie says, so she doesn't think anyone else noticed, including Torode.

She says she did not pursue a complaint because she feared that being a junior member of the team, 'chances were, I'd be booted off the production, and he may have only got a scolding'.

Sophie has also contributed to the Banijay inquiry.

Several new allegations happened away from television - one of them in the mid-to-late 2000s in Nottingham during a book tour.

Publicist Esther describes an incident when she says Wallace pushed his way into her hotel room, took off his clothes, and then asked her: 'Exactly what is it that you do?'

She says she was shocked and made it clear she was not interested, telling him: 'That's not part of my job.'

But rather than leaving the room, she says he climbed into her bed and fell asleep.

She didn't know what to do, she says, as she was worried that if she asked the hotel for another room, she would potentially attract negative publicity for Wallace. So she decided to sleep at the edge of the bed, with her clothes on.

When he woke up, says Esther, Wallace put his hand on her bottom and commented that she had a 'nice arse'. She says she told him to get out of her room, which he did.

Esther wishes she had made a formal complaint at the time, but says she did not because he was an important author, and she didn't want to rock the boat.

However, she has now contributed to the Banijay inquiry.

According to the source: BBC.