Ulrika: Gregg's rape joke on MasterChef set

Jonsson's anger at 'distress' host caused.. as other guests slam him

ULRIKA Jonsson has revealed she was told Gregg Wallace joked about rape, as more women shared claims of uncomfortable experiences with the MasterChef presenter.

TV star Ulrika, 57, said Wallace, 60, made the alleged remark to a fellow contestant who was "really distressed".

Two other Celebrity MasterChef guests, How Clean is your House's Aggie MacKenzie and reality star Charlotte Crosby, made similar claims yesterday.

It comes after Wallace stepped away from MasterChef as a probe was launched into complaints made against him over a 17-year period.

Ulrika, who was in the 2017 series, says she saw the woman walking off set so she asked her what had happened.

She says the woman told her Wallace had made a "rape joke".

Ulrika made the allegations in an Instagram post, saying: "His lawyers say that all the claims are entirely false', which I guess makes liars of us all." In another post, Ulrika claimed that several crew members on the show knew what was going on and had allegedly seen Wallace's behaviour.

"Plenty of crew on set who would not dare to speak up for fear of losing their jobs," she wrote.

Aggie, 69, who was on the 2011 series of Celebrity MasterChef, said Wallace "behaved like a sort of Sid James character" who made "stupid, unfunny jokes that people kind of had to tolerate".

"He [was] very old school in his humour," she told Times Radio.