Gregg Wallace boasted of 'inappropriate' jokes before BBC apology over behaviour

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Gregg Wallace, the MasterChef presenter who's currently under scrutiny, has previously bragged about making racially insensitive and sexual jokes during his time at the BBC.

In his 2012 memoir, the 60-year-old former greengrocer confessed to being "naughty" during his stint on Saturday Kitchen, saying: "I love my innuendoes, and I would make jokes all the way through, making such quips like: 'I've got a Korean cookbook at home called 100 Ways to Wok your Dog' and 'Henry VIII liked getting head from his wives'.

And, of course, anything with nuts or melons brought a smile to my face and a few cheeky words." The TV star, who's been accused of inappropriate comments and behaviour behind the scenes at MasterChef, claimed he was "encouraged" to be naughty when he was asked "to front" Saturday Kitchen in its early days before it was live.

After downplaying the complaints against him over the weekend, he issued a formal apology. He had previously claimed that the complaints about his behaviour came from "a handful of middle-class women of a certain age".