Gregg Wallace ‘thought about suicide all the time’ amid misconduct allegations
The former greengrocer stepped away from hosting MasterChef last year after the historical complaints came to light.
TV presenter Gregg Wallace has said he “thought about suicide all the time” after allegations of misconduct were made against him.
The 60-year-old stepped away from hosting BBC cooking show MasterChef after a host of historical complaints came to light last year, which led to an external investigation by the show’s production company, Banijay UK.
Speaking in an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, Wallace said of the storm of complaints: “Nobody should be left on their own to face something like this.
“It’s very difficult to explain the pressure unless you’ve been through it. I thought about suicide all the time – ‘is my insurance up to date? Will Anna (Wallace’s wife) get some money? She doesn’t deserve this, it would be better if I wasn’t here’.”
Speaking about a number of social media posts he made following the allegations, the former greengrocer said he felt he “had to speak out because people were saying what they liked about me and it wasn’t true”.
Wallace claimed he had not been contacted by the BBC after the claims became public, which led to him posting a video on Instagram where he claimed they had been made by “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.
The presenter continued: “I hadn’t slept for four days. The feeling of being under attack, of isolation, of abandonment was overwhelming.
“Nobody from the BBC contacted me once these stories started breaking – absolutely nobody at all.
