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Just why IS John Torode keeping so quiet? TV insiders reveal truth about his and Gregg Wallace's 'friendship' to KATIE HIND, and tell what was really happening on MasterChef set


Over the last two days there has been a queue of people coming forward to share their tales of humiliation, bullying and downright rudeness at the hands of Gregg Wallace.

A MasterChef star herself, after winning the celebrity version of the show in 2010, she and Torode share videos of their work from their ITV cookery programme John And Lisa's Weekend Kitchen with his 230,000 followers. Meanwhile, the Telegraph reported that a former member of the MasterChef production team has claimed Wallace imitated a sex act, holding her head and thrusting his body towards hers, as she knelt down in front of him while cleaning a mark off his trousers. Aggie MacKenzie said Wallace 'behaved like a sort of Sid James character' who made 'stupid, unfunny jokes that people kind of had to tolerate' while reality television personality Charlotte Crosby branded him 'extremely unpleasant.'

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