Melanie Sykes has spoken out amid the continued Gregg Wallace row and his sexual misconduct investigation.
The star, 54, beforehand claimed that spending time with MasterChef presenter Gregg on the BBC present in 2021 made her stroll away from her tv profession.
Gregg, 60, has stepped away from the BBC present after 13 individuals, together with Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, accused him of ‘mistaken’ and inappropriate ‘sexualised’ behaviour throughout filming.
The claims are throughout a 17-year interval and embody these of inappropriate behaviour, together with roaming round on set bare with a sock on his penis, inappropriate jokes and two claims of groping crew members.
In a brand new YouTube video posted on Sunday Melanie didn’t instantly handle the Gregg state of affairs when she spoke however referred to sure latest media stories.
Reflecting, she mentioned: ‘I am deep in thought as all the time, emotional and I am so grateful and pleased with the whole lot in my life.
Melanie Sykes has spoken out amid the continued Gregg Wallace row and his sexual misconduct investigation
The star, 54, beforehand claimed that spending time with MasterChef presenter Gregg on the BBC present in 2021 made her stroll away from her tv profession
‘However there are such a lot of issues as a human which might be painful and tough to hearken to.
‘I look out on the birds within the morning and they’re in such concord and I do not perceive why we won’t do this.
‘There are occasions in my life once I simply do not have interaction with the media narrative in any form or kind and there are intervals once I do as a result of I need to know what’s taking place…’
Melanie made feedback about Gregg in her autobiography, titled Illuminated, which was printed final yr, and expanded on them in latest days in one other video posted on YouTube.
Mel claimed Gregg greeted her on MasterChef by asking if fashions eat meals, which she mentioned she discovered ‘unprofessional’ and laced with ‘ignorance and disrespect’.
She additionally mentioned the grocer-turned broadcaster hung out ‘barking orders’ in such a fashion that made her need to depart the present.
And Gregg apparently instructed her that showing on his present would do quite a bit for her profession prospects.
She mentioned: ‘I did not know what to say, so I smiled and mentioned ‘sure’, however I used to be actually considering, ‘Sure, you’ve got lastly helped me resolve to finish my tv profession as soon as and for all’.’
Gregg, 60, has stepped away from the BBC present after 13 individuals, together with Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, accused him of ‘mistaken’ and inappropriate ‘sexualised’ behaviour throughout filming
In a brand new YouTube video posted on Sunday Melanie didn’t instantly handle the Gregg state of affairs when she spoke however referred to sure latest media stories
Melanie beforehand claimed Gregg greeted her on MasterChef by asking if fashions eat meals, which she mentioned she discovered ‘unprofessional’ and laced with ‘ignorance and disrespect’
Melanie mentioned she made an off-the-cuff criticism in opposition to Wallace, and claimed she discovered conduct on the MasterChef set ‘jaw-dropping’.
Melanie is finest identified for the Boddingtons advert within the Nineteen Nineties and because the co-host of At present with Des and Mel within the early 2000s.
In her e book, Melanie wrote: ‘The MasterChef expertise continued to be an eye-opener, and a few unprofessional behaviour on set was jaw-dropping.’
In her latest YouTube video she mentioned that ‘each time Gregg came visiting to the desk, I did not actually like him being round often because it is all about vibrations and vitality’.
On the finish of filming the present, Melanie claimed she had a quick dialog with Gregg, which was an enormous consider her exit from tv.
It’s not identified who Melanie made an off-the-cuff criticism about Gregg to.
On Saturday it was revealed that Gregg admitted ‘defeat’ and accepted his profession is over within the wake of an investigation by a manufacturing firm into his alleged sexual harassment and groping.
In October Gregg vehemently denied that he had made inappropriate sexual feedback in the direction of girls, declaring that he would by no means ‘flirt with’ or ‘hit on’ one other girl and: ‘I did not say something sexual’.
A supply has now instructed MailOnline that Gregg has instructed mates that he ‘accepts his TV profession is mainly at an finish.’
They revealed that Gregg is being ‘fairly reflective and pragmatic’ in regards to the investigation and has concluded he has ‘had a superb run and performed properly for a bloke who was mainly a greengrocer.’
Gregg arrange his personal fruit and vegetable enterprise – incomes himself the nickname ‘Gregg the Veg’ from mates – in 1989 and equipped eating places together with Quaglinos, the place younger Aussie chef John was working.
Whereas this yr’s MasterChef Christmas specials have been pulled from the TV schedule there’s additionally dialogue that the BBC can be eradicating historic reveals that includes him as a result of nature of the complaints.
MailOnline have contacted the BBC for remark. Gregg’s representatives refused to remark when approached by MailOnline.
Different allegations embody speaking overtly about his intercourse life on set, with particulars of intimate acts, flirting with crew members and asking youthful feminine colleagues for his or her numbers.
In the meantime The Solar has reported the star has stopped utilizing his authorized workforce as he believes he can be sacked from MasterChef and has resigned to his destiny.
The presenter has reportedly turned down crisis-publicity groups within the weeks after a number of girls complained he had groped or harassed them.
He introduced he was stepping away from presenting MasterChef after practically 20 years final month, whereas an investigation into his alleged misconduct is carried out.
Earlier this week Penny Lancaster broke her silence after her husband Rod Stewart slammed the host, saying she had been a ‘sufferer and witness’ to Gregg’s bullying.
She mentioned: ‘I most undoubtedly was witness and sufferer to among the bullying and harassment behaviour of Gregg Wallace. And sadly plenty of these within the manufacturing workforce had been additionally witness to that.’
She went on: ‘I actually really feel that he used his place of energy to I imagine intimidate and trigger misery to lots of people on set.
‘And it is actually unlucky that somebody like him is allowed to get away with that whereas different stands by and let it occur on the identical time. And it is apparent that lots of people have come ahead.’
Following his exit, singer Rod issued a livid rant on the presenter, calling him a ‘tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully’ for ‘humiliating’ spouse Penny when she appeared on Superstar MasterChef in 2021.
Explaining the choice behind Rod’s offended put up, Penny mentioned: ‘My husband when he heard individuals speaking in regards to the disturbing behaviors, he could not maintain again.
‘Protecting husband thought, ‘I am not going to remain silent I have to say one thing,’ as a result of he realised how upset I used to be on the time.’
The BBC claims Gregg walked away from MasterChef after BBC Information despatched a letter to his agent on Tuesday, setting out allegations from 13 individuals and giving him a proper of reply.
They are saying he was warned after a criticism was raised in 2018, however new historic claims emerged over the summer time of 2024.
Gregg is ‘dedicated to totally cooperating all through the method’, the present’s manufacturing firm Banijay UK mentioned.
Melanie mentioned she made an off-the-cuff criticism in opposition to Wallace, and claimed she discovered conduct on the MasterChef set ‘jaw-dropping’
Melanie is finest identified for the Boddingtons advert within the Nineteen Nineties and because the co-host of At present with Des and Mel within the early 2000s
The chef has since thanked individuals for his or her help following accusations he mimicked a intercourse act and wandered into the MasterChef studio ‘fully bare’ other than a ‘sock protecting his penis’.
Gregg is accused of mimicking a intercourse act in entrance of a member of the present’s manufacturing employees who was kneeling down to wash his trousers throughout filming, in line with the lurid and so-far unsubstantiated allegations.
The grocery store turned presenter can also be accused of creating ‘disgusting sex-related jokes’, together with one about an ‘aunt’ whereas tasting a contestant’s dish throughout the present.
In a video posted on Instagram final month, he mentioned: ‘I wish to thank all of the individuals getting in contact, attain out and displaying their help.
‘That is good of you, thanks very a lot.’
