Katy Brand breaks her silence about ‘awkward’ second Gregg Wallace informed her he would ‘munch the dwelling daylights out of her little tart’ on MasterChef
Katy Brand has broken her silence about the ‘awkward’ moment Gregg Wallace told her he would ‘munch the living daylights out of her little tart’ on Celebrity MasterChef.
A shocking video from the 2013 series of the programme shows Wallace making the apparent innuendo about the comedian’s egg tart.
The grocer turned broadcaster tells Brand: ‘I find this quite pleasant. Left to my own devices, I’d probably munch the living daylights out of your little tart.’
The BBC revealed 13 people have complained about Wallace’s conduct while working with him over a 17-year period across five shows, from 2005 to 2022.
Allegations include Wallace taking his top off in front of a female worker saying he wanted to ‘give her a fashion show’, and talking about his sex life to others.
Celebrities to speak out about his behaviour so far include TV presenter and model Ulrika Jonsson, Rod Stewart, Kirsty Wark, Scottish broadcaster Aasmah Mir, Aggie McKenzie and Charlotte Crosby.
Reacting to the resurfaced video of Wallace’s tart comment, Brand called the encounter ‘awkward’ and recalled her immediate ‘shock and disbelief’ at the ‘crass and idiotic joke’.
‘I took it as an innuendo-laden remark at the time, and I still see it that way now,’ she said.
‘My reaction on camera was one of shock and disbelief at such a crass and idiotic joke, and so I laughed and said ”excuse me?” to which he reacted with a deadpan expression and a remark about my laughter.’
Brand added: ‘The video online is a pretty accurate representation of my recollection of what actually happened. It was awkward.
One video from the 2013 series of Celebrity MasterChef shows Gregg Wallace (pictured) telling comedian Katy Brand ‘I’ll munch the living daylights out of your little tart’
Katy Brand has broken her silence about the ‘awkward’ moment Gregg Wallace told her he would ‘munch the living daylights out of her little tart’ on MasterChef
Wallace tells Katy Brand (pictured): ‘I find this quite pleasant. Left to my own devices, I’d probably munch the living daylights out of your little tart’
‘For the sake of clarity, I am not one of those who has made an official complaint. I applaud those who have, especially those who work off-camera and who often find they do not have the opportunity or the support to react in the moment.
‘I hope they find it now. That’s all I have to say. Thanks.’
Wallace stepped down from MasterChef yesterday amid allegations he made ‘sexual comments to 13 colleagues’ and was even accused of wandering around naked with his penis in a sock.
Through his lawyers, the grocer turned broadcaster has insisted that it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature.
Ulrika Jonsson, who appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2017, today claimed a female contestant was hugely upset by Wallace’s ‘rape joke’ which caused another person to storm off set and complain to their bosses.
‘They then went off to speak to Gregg. After a while he came up…and he apologised. He could hardly get his words out. He was apologising, and he had tears in his eyes’, she said.
But she added: ‘The apology should have been to everyone. It felt like, you know, ‘don’t make the joke in the first place’ and said she ‘definitely’ felt uncomfortable on set following his joke.
One MasterChef production worker who claimed today Gregg would joke about threesomes with prostitutes and how he ‘loves spanking’. There were also ‘disgusting sex-related’ gags, including one too rude to publish about an ‘aunt’ while tasting a contestant’s dish.
