Lorraine Kelly tells MasterChef’s Gregg Wallace to ‘shut up’ after ‘women of certain age’ comment

Lorraine Kelly responds to Gregg Wallace MasterChef scandal: 'Shut up'Source: ITV

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00:00Yesterday, and we've been showing this, so yesterday, Greg responded on Instagram.

00:05I've been doing MasterChef for 20 years and apparently now I'm reading in the paper

00:12there's been 13 complaints in that time. Now in the newspaper I can see the complaints coming from a

00:20handful of middle-class women of a certain age just from Celebrity MasterChef. This isn't right.

00:34Just, you know, sometimes just don't. Just have a dignified silence and collect yourself. I mean,

00:41I am quite astounded that he made that statement.

00:45Well, and nobody would say...

00:46Is nobody advising him?

00:48Is nobody saying, shut up, just be quiet right now and let's see what happens?

00:52No, not at all. I'll tell you what his lawyer has said. It is entirely false that he, Greg,

00:58engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature. That's what the lawyer said.

01:03The BBC have said it would be wrong to report the BBC has done nothing if or when matters have

01:09been raised with us, not least because it is already being widely reported there were

01:13interventions in both 2017 and 2018 where action was taken. And we go on,

01:20Bangie UK, they're the company who actually make the show MasterChef. They said, well,

01:23these are historical allegations. Incidents has brought to our attention where expectations are

01:28not met are thoroughly investigated and addressed appropriately is what they're all saying. So

01:34they're all saying the right things, but let's just wait and see if there's any more.