Gregg Wallace breaks silence to defend his 'human meat' show as fans left horrified

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Gregg Wallace has broken his silence after receiving major backlash online after he appeared to eat human flesh on his new TV show.

On Monday evening, the MasterChef judge starred in a Channel 4's British Miracle Meat which showed the 58-year-old tucking into various laboratory grown meats.

Gregg and his fellow chef pal Michel Roux Jr went along to see manufactured “engineered human meat” and the duo met with financially challenged families who were selling their flesh as donors to a fictional company called Good Harvest, writes The Mirror.The human flesh was then grown in labs to be used in the creation of steaks, burgers and sausages - however, fortunately the entire process was a mockumentary and intended to be regarded as satire.However, viewers of the spoof show were horrified and blasted it for being “distasteful” and “sickening”.Gregg took to social media to hint that his fans should just lighten up after the episode aired to address the controversy.Sharing a promotional poster for the mockumentary, which showed him grinning in front of a giant slab of meat, Gregg wrote: “Thank you for watching.

I really enjoyed my first ever acting job!”Despite the backlash pouring into the comments, the celeb chef shared a second image from the show and added the simple caption: “Satire.”During the spoof, Gregg gave his verdict on a couple of meat offerings - branding one “a bit stringy” and another more “tender”.Viewers were repulsed by the show and took to social media to vent.One wrote: "This Channel 4 programme with Gregg Wallace and the geezer growing a human steak in a laboratory is really freaking me out."Another penned: "Just watched Gregg Wallace’s The British Miracle Meat on C4, quite frankly it’s the sickest thing