MASTERCHEF host Gregg Wallace has furiously lashed out at the outspoken celebrities who turned on him.
The 60-year-old is under investigation by the BBC show's production company Banijay UK after allegations of “lewd and inappropriate” behaviour on set.
Gregg faced complaints from Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, 70, who accused him of telling “sexualised” jokes as they filmed Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
Other broadcasters Vanessa Feltz, 63, and Kirstie Allsopp, 53, also made complaints.
Gregg – who admitted after the historic allegations were made – has now hit out at ex-pal Vanessa and the other women as he awaits results of the probe.
Gregg toldMail+ of Kirsty: “I thought we got on. She made it to the final three, so we were together for three months. I can clearly remember drinking champagne with her at the end of the show and sharing jokes.
“I hadn’t seen the complaint so I didn’t know what it was. I thought, “What have I done?”; I literally didn’t understand it.”
Gregg added: “Vanessa Feltz really knocked me for six. She had a story from a friend of hers who said she’d overheard me saying something sexual in a lift.
“I’ve always got on well with Vanessa. I’ve been on her show. We even swapped messages on social media.”
‘I’m thinking, ‘Really, Vanessa, you’re weighing in with something someone else told you that I was supposed to have said in a lift? I thought you liked me'.”
He slammed at, after she claimed he had told her a story about “sex act that and his partner had enjoyed every morning” while they waited a green room together before filming for a pilot.
Gregg insisted he did not say that because he had only ever tried the “sex act” once when he was 28 and “didn’t like it”.
Banijay UK arranged for him to be supported by a crisis mentor who insisted he had a mental health screening.
Gregg was diagnosed with profound autism.
was accused of makingincludinganchor– accusations he denies.
Results of the investigation are set to be revealed next month.
