MasterChef Christmas reveals pulled from BBC schedule amid Gregg Wallace furore
The broadcaster beforehand introduced a Celeb MasterChef Prepare dinner Off and a Strictly Festive Extravaganza as a part of its festive schedule, each billed as hour-long programmes for BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
A BBC spokesperson mentioned: “As now we have mentioned, MasterChef is an incredible competitors which is life-changing for the cooks participating and the present sequence of MasterChef: The Professionals is continuous as deliberate.
Two celeb MasterChef Christmas specials have been pulled from the BBC’s festive schedules, the company has introduced.
“The celeb Christmas specials are clearly a special kind of present and within the present circumstances now we have determined to not broadcast them.”
Wallace, 60, apologised on Monday for claiming complaints about his behaviour got here from “a handful of middle-class ladies of a sure age”, including he’ll now “take a while out”.
He faces allegations from 13 individuals throughout a spread of reveals over a 17-year interval, as reported by BBC Information on Thursday, with many others since sharing their experiences.
Celeb MasterChef Christmas Prepare dinner Off, hosted by Wallace and John Torode, was to see celebrities competing for the glittery Golden Whisk Trophy.
Emmerdale actor Amy Walsh, comic Shazia Mirza, actuality star Luca Bish, and The Wished singer Max George, who all appeared on Celeb MasterChef final 12 months, had been set to function.
The BBC beforehand introduced the Strictly Come Dancing-themed particular would contain appearances from skilled dancers Amy Dowden, Gorka Marquez, Kai Widdrington and Nancy Xu.
Strictly decide Motsi Mabuse was billed as a thriller visitor on the present, with the dancers tasked with making a two-course menu that might impress the judges.
A BBC sequence of MasterChef: The Professionals has remained on air because it was introduced Wallace would step down amid the exterior assessment by Banijay UK, with episodes airing on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman mentioned on Monday, when requested if the cookery present needs to be pulled off air, that the choice was for the BBC and the present’s manufacturing firm and reiterated that Downing Road believes it’s “proper” {that a} thorough investigation is carried out.
