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.”

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of the current series of MasterChef: The Professionals aired as planned on Monday night despite calls for it to be withdrawn from the schedule amid growing allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour against the presenter.

Lisa Nandy met with BBC bosses to seek an update on its review into workplace culture following allegations against Gregg Wallace