Ulrika Jonsson admitted she is “seething” after MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace doubled down on his “crude and sleazy” remarks to women over the years.
The Mirror can report in full Jonsson’s response to Wallace’s Instagram video, in which he says his accusers are “middle class women of a certain age”, after it added to the controversy surrounding him and BBC’s MasterChef.
Following Wallace’s post, Jonsson, who has previously slammed Wallace for making a vile rape joke to a “distressed” MasterChef contestant, expressed her anger. The TV presenter said: “Somewhere in his misogynistic, thoughtless, ancient mind he felt it appropriate to tell the world this. Oh, Gregg. Your ignorance and arrogance knows no bounds. Firstly, you have no clue what ‘class’ of women it is that have made complaints about you.”
She added that his reference to “women of a certain age” is ironic because Generation X have been subjected to “sexist, misogynistic, crude and sleazy comments and physical contact” from a young age, throughout their “working lives”.
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Jonsson’s ire, published by The Sun, comes as Wallace, 60, is stepping away from the show amid an internal investigation in the BBC. The broadcaster, born in Peckham, southeast London, has been accused of inappropriate behaviour over a 17-year period.
Despite strongly denying the allegations in an official statement issued by his legal reps, Wallace decided to take to Instagram in an apparent attempt to clear his name. Its this video which has caused more controversy with Jonsson and Nadia Sawalha among those who’ve expressed their fury at the comments. Loose Women star Nadia, who won Celebrity MasterChef in 2007, said she was “horrified” by how Wallace had reacted to the accusations made against him.
And Jonsson, who claimed he told a “really distressed” contestant that her “dish looks like a rapist during foreplay”, added that the BBC need to take accountability. She said: “However much the BBC considered this ‘cheeky chappy’ to be popular with the public because of his simplicity, it is just not good enough to brush off any complaints with the excuse that ‘it’s just how Gregg is’.” Wallace, a father of two, has since apologised for the initial Instagram video.
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