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Gregg Wallace: Allegations against me come from 'middle-class women of certain age'

Gregg Wallace stepped back from hosting MasterChef on Thursday while historical allegations against him are investigated. This morning he addressed those accusations head on in videos posted on social media.

Wallace has stepped back from presenting the BBC cooking show MasterChef after accusations he made sexual comments towards staff and celebrity guests on a range of programmes over 17 years. There needs to be a handy cut-and-paste template for moments like this, given the number of times I've had to write analysis this year on powerful men of a certain age failing to grasp that their bumper pay packets come with some basic responsibilities. On Saturday the production company that makes the programme, Banijay UK, called for anyone wishing to report allegations of misconduct to contact Lewis Silkin, a legal firm appointed to lead an investigation.

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