Change in festive schedule comes after Wallace stepped away from hosting cookery show amid allegations about his behaviour
Wallace stepped away from presenting the show last week after being accused of “highly inappropriate” sexualised comments and behaviour. Multiple people who worked with him on different shows over a 17-year-period have made allegations against him.
“He brushed past me at the checkout, and touched my bum with his waist and penis and laughed and said: ‘Oooh, you liked that, didn’t you,’” she said. Another woman worked on MasterChef in 2015 and said she was called to Wallace’s dressing room to fix his bow tie after a work event. The third woman said she met Wallace while working at an event in 2022. He pulled her and some other members of his group into a hug in the lift. “When doing this, he put his hand on my bottom and groped me. It made me feel gross, it was horrible,” she told BBC News.
The BBC had previously announced a Celebrity MasterChef Cook-Off and a Strictly Festive Extravaganza as part of its festive schedule, both billed as hour-long programmes for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
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