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Ainsley Harriott weighs in on Gregg Wallace accusations with controversial statement


The MasterChef judge and chef, 60, announced he was stepping back from presenting the show after nearly 20 years last week while an investigation into his alleged misconduct is carried out.

The MasterChef judge and chef announced he was stepping back from presenting the show after nearly 20 years last week while an investigation into his alleged misconduct is carried out (John Torode, Ainsley and Gregg pictured) The BBC have decided to go ahead and broadcast the rest of Masterchef: The Professionals, which will conclude on December 12, and the two Christmas editions, while they await the conclusion of the investigation by production company Banijay. Gregg faces accusations he told a junior female colleague he wasn't wearing any boxer shorts under his jeans, wandered into the studio naked apart from a sock on his penis and mimicked a sex act on a producer when she knelt down to clean his trousers.

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