Gregg Wallace has spoken out about complaints made against him, saying "middle-class women of a certain age" are behind them.
The MasterChef host, who stepped away from the BBC programme last week amid a probe into complaints about his alleged conduct, took to social media to respond to claims, the Mirror reports.
In a post on Instagram, he said: "I have been doing Masterchef for 20 years - amateur, celebrity and professional MasterChef and I think in that time I have worked with over 4,000 contestants of all different ages, all different backgrounds and all walks of life. "And apparently now I am reading in the paper there's been 13 complaints in that time.
In the newspaper I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age just from Celebrity Masterchef.
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