Television presenter Aggie MacKenzie, who competed on “Celebrity MasterChef” in 2011, told ITV on Monday that Wallace made “endless smutty jokes” and alleged that “he’s been allowed to carry on in his own sweet way for many, many years.”

Gregg Wallace was back on screens as part of the semi-finals for MasterChef: The Professionals amid his ongoing controversy around allegations of alleged inappropriate behaviour

The BBC refused on Monday night to pull programmes featuring Gregg Wallace off air, despite Downing Street describing his comments about middle-class women as “inappropriate and misogynistic”.The first of the semi-finals of the current series of MasterChef: The Professionals aired as planned on Monday night despite calls for it to be withdrawn from the schedule amid growing allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour against the presenter.