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'I thought about suicide all the time': Tearful Gregg Wallace's bombshell first interview where he tells his side of story - and reveals devastating death at height of the scandal
Gregg, 60, stepped down from MasterChef five months ago while complaints from 13 women about historical allegations of misconduct were investigated.
Their light-hearted banter, laced with sexual innuendo, helped the show become one of the most successful programmes on the BBC in an age when parties, not people, were cancelled; snowflakes were iced crystals that fell in cold weather; and Trigger was a fictional character in the much-loved Only Fools And Horses, not a woke warning about outdated attitudes that was slapped on the classic comedy earlier this year. Early allegations were investigated by MasterChef management, who decided there was no case to answer until two women made complaints to the BBC of sexualised behaviour 18 years earlier, including the story about him walking naked around a busy studio with a sock on his penis. Indeed, despite his obvious distress in recent months (he has said on Instagram he ‘wasn’t in a good head space’, ‘was under a huge amount of stress’ and felt ‘very alone’) he says that the BBC didn’t so much as lift up the phone to support him until a few weeks ago, when it sent an email to arrange a meeting to discuss his historic behaviour.
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