Gregg Wallace - that's Gregg with two "g"s and don't you dare forget it - is the latest "talent" to besmirch the reputation of the BBC.
The 60-year-old Masterchef host stands accused of making a string of inappropriate comments to woman he described yesterday as being "middle-class" and "of a certain age".
The comments are said to be of misogynistic and sexualised nature, as outlined in the allegations below.
Dr Kate Tomas, a contestant on Masterchef back in 2008, accused Wallace of "sexually harassing" her.
She left the programme just before the quarter finals, but declined an invitation to appear in a follow-up because of the impression Wallace had left on her.
Speaking on TikTok, Dr Tomas said: "I refused to go back because of him. I complained at the time, but nothing was said, nothing was done.
"He is disgusting. He is repulsive. Anyone who knows me will know my deep fucking hatred for this man."
Dr Tomas went on to describe how, in her view, Wallace was a "racist piece of shit", which she supported with a claim that he had feigned an Indian accent when speaking to an Asian crew member.
Former Newsnight anchor Kirsty Wark appeared in the 2011 series of Celebrity Masterchef.
Speaking to BBC News last week, Ms Wark recounted filming in a retirement home.
"Gregg Wallace came in and launched into a story of a sexually inappropriate nature about his now former wife," she said.
Ms Wark recalled how cast and crew were left uncomfortable by Wallace's comments, which she described as "one way traffic" with no-one else encouraging the conversation.
Author Emma Kennedy appeared in the 2012 series of Celebrity Masterchef.
Recalling Wallace's interaction with a crew member, she said: "The photographer had a young female assistant and she bent over and in front of me. Gregg went over and went 'corr!' with his hands over her arse."
Ms Kennedy said she complained about Wallace's behaviour at the time.
Television presenter Kirstie Allsopp met Wallace in the green room during the filming of a pilot episode. She recalls that Wallace was in the company of his then partner, who left the room for some reason.
Ms Allsopp said that the moment the woman left the room Wallace started boasting about the "sex act" the couple performed every morning.
Ms Allsopp remembers feeling flushed and embarrassed at the unprofessional topic of conversation.
Wallace denies the allegations against him. Given his chippy social media video yesterday, he's clearly aggrieved that "middle-class women" are picking on the "working-class grocer's boy".
It should come as little surprise that the conduct of the repugnant Londoner has been on the BBC's radar for at least the past decade.
In time honoured BBC fashion, it appears to have simply brushed the matter under the carpet and allowed everything to carry on as normal - just like it did with noncey news man Huw Edwards only a few months ago.
This is yet another demonstration of the BBC's inability to tackle wrongdoing and keep its house in order.
The whole organisation is rotten from the head downwards. It wants euthanised at the earliest opportunity.
Further anti-BBC reading:
- Is The True Or Did You Hear It On The BBC?, by David Sedgwick (aff. link)
- The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, by Tom Mills (aff. link)
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