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38 minutes ago
- Times
MasterChef's John Torode alleged to have used racist language
MasterChef presenter John Torode is the subject of an allegation that he used racist language which has been upheld by the review into the behaviour of his co-presenter Gregg Wallace. The report, commissioned by MasterChef production company Banijay UK and led by law firm Lewis Silkin, found 45 out of 83 allegations against Wallace were substantiated, alongside two standalone allegations made against other people, including one for using racist language. Torode confirmed on his social media that he was one of the people alleged to have used racist language but said he had 'no recollection of the incident' and was 'shocked and saddened' by the allegation. Writing on Instagram, Torode said: 'Following publication of the executive summary of the investigation into Gregg Wallace while working on MasterChef, I am aware of speculation that I am one of the two other individuals against whom an allegation has been upheld. 'For the sake of transparency, I confirm that I am the individual who is alleged to have used racial language on one occasion. The allegation is that I did so sometime in 2018 or 2019, in a social situation, and that the person I was speaking with did not believe that it was intended in a malicious way and that I apologised immediately afterwards. 'I have absolutely no recollection of any of this, and I do not believe that it happened. 'However, I want to be clear that I've always had the view that any racial language is wholly unacceptable in any environment. I'm shocked and saddened by the allegation as I would never wish to cause anyone any offence.' It comes as Greg Wallace has said he 'never set out to harm or humiliate' after a report on the MasterChef presenter's behaviour substantiated 45 complaints against him. The seven-month inquiry by Lewis Silkin spoke to 78 witnesses and used analysis of relevant documentation and unedited programme footage as it examined 83 complaints against the 60-year-old star. More than half were upheld. The investigation was launched after high-profile former Celebrity MasterChef contestants, including Penny Lancaster, Vanessa Feltz and Kirstie Allsopp, spoke out against Wallace last year. At the time, he dismissed them as 'a handful of middle-class women of a certain age'. In a statement on Monday, he said he was 'deeply sorry' for the distress his behaviour caused. Wallace said: 'For eight months, my family and I have lived under a cloud. Trial by media, fuelled by rumour and clickbait. None of the serious allegations against me were upheld. I challenged the remaining issue of unwanted touching but have had to accept a difference in perception, and I am deeply sorry for any distress caused. It was never intended. 'I'm relieved that the Banijay report fully recognises that my behaviour changed profoundly in 2018. Some of my humour and language missed the mark. I never set out to harm or humiliate. I always tried to bring warmth and support to MasterChef, on screen and off.' He added: 'A late autism diagnosis has helped me understand how I communicate and how I'm perceived. I'm still learning. Banijay have given me great support, and I thank them. But in the end, the BBC left me exposed to trial by media and the damage it leaves in its wake.' The vast majority (94 per cent) of the complaints received related to behaviour which occurred between 2005 and 2018, and the bulk related to inappropriate sexually explicit language and humour. Just one incident was substantiated after 2018, the year after Wallace was spoken to about his behaviour by BBC bosses. They have admitted that opportunities were missed to address Wallace's behaviour, who fronted one of its highest-profile television shows for two decades. He is estimated to have come into contact with more than 2,500 people connected to the show. 'We accept more could and should have been done sooner,' said a BBC spokesman. Wallace is said to be unable to wear underwear, an issue attributed to a neurodiversity diagnosis STEVE FINN In 2023, The Times revealed that Wallace had stepped back from presenting the BBC's Inside The Factory documentary after offending staff in a Nestlé factory. Sexually explicit comments accounted for 14 of the substantiated allegations, with a further six involving inappropriate jokes, comments and innuendo. Two involved 'being in a state of undress'. Wallace co-operated with the investigation and was interviewed three times for more than 14 hours. The investigations team found that his neurodiversity diagnosis, which was said to mean he was unable to wear underwear, was 'highly relevant' in the context of the findings made, particularly regarding his use of humour as a 'masking' technique and his difficulty in reading social cues. Investigators said that Wallace was consistently described by staff as 'energetic, humorous, and generally able to put contestants at ease', which they said contributed to the show's success. However, they also ruled that some interactions 'resulted in offence and/or left people feeling uncomfortable'. After he was spoken to, Wallace was found by investigators to have moderated his behaviour by 'seeking guidance from colleagues on his choice of language.' A further two allegations about other people working on MasterChef were also substantiated after investigators received ten allegations not involving Wallace. These are related to two separate individuals and involve swearing and racist language. The production company behind the show was found to have provided little or no formal training or clear escalation procedures to manage complaints prior to 2016. Of the 11 complaints received at the time, six were brought to the attention of the BBC, with Wallace spoken to about his behaviour by the broadcaster in 2017. Patrick Holland, the chief executive of Banijay UK, which commissioned the report, apologised to any individuals who had been affected by Wallace's behaviour. A BBC spokesman said that Wallace had been told that there was no way back to the corporation for him after the report's findings. No decision has yet been made about whether the broadcaster will screen the final series of MasterChef featuring Wallace. It will largely depend on the response to the report from the amateur chefs who appear in the series, which was filmed last year. Aasmah Mir, the former BBC and Times Radio presenter, said that she was 'astonished' to learn that her complaint in 2017 had been the first about the presenter. Wallace's behaviour, she said, was an 'open secret' in the industry. Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, said: 'The allegations against Gregg Wallace are horrendous and appalling. This case highlights a wider issue and much more must be done to ensure that everyone working in the creative industries is treated with dignity, fairness and respect.'
BBC News
2 hours ago
- BBC News
BBC salaries list: Which stars are missing, and why?
The BBC's annual report will be published later, with Gary Lineker and Zoe Ball likely to top the star salaries list for the last time. The pair have occupied the top two slots on the rankings every year since 2020, but both have recently exited their respective left the Radio 2 Breakfast show in December, three quarters of the way through the financial year, while Lineker recently stood down from the BBC sooner than planned after reposting a controversial Instagram reel about Mills has taken over the Radio 2 breakfast show (Ball now hosts Saturday afternoons), while Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan are the new faces of Match of the Day. Their new salaries are all expected to appear in full next there are plenty of other stars who make huge sums of money from the BBC whose names never appear on the list, due to the criteria used to compile a result, the corporation's salary disclosure is far from a complete picture of what top talent at the BBC earn. Why are some names missing from the BBC salary list? The BBC publishes the names and salaries of stars and executives who earn above a certain threshold (currently £178,000) every year. But while there are many stars the BBC employs directly, the corporation also contracts a large number of production companies, including the corporation's own commercial arm, BBC Studios, to make some of its programmes. The stars who are subsequently employed by those production companies are not directly employed by the BBC, and therefore not on the salaries BBC Studios is a commercial organisation, not underpinned by the licence fee, it is in competition for business with the BBC, streaming services and other a result, its salaries aren't included, so that there is a level playing field for it to compete in the commercial make things more complicated, some shows which air on the BBC are not solely funded by it. Industry, for example, is a co-production with HBO, while the last series of Doctor Who was partly funded by Disney+.That means it's not necessarily the case that the salaries of big stars associated with these shows are funded exclusively from licence fee money. Which stars do not appear on the salaries list? It would be almost impossible to come up with a full, exhaustive list, but here are a few examples of names who are absent, in no particular Clark is missing, despite hosting a weekly Radio 2 show, covering the Eurovision Song Contest, fronting an Italian travel series with his friend Robert Rinder, and his special one-off interview programmes with Cher and Mariah fellow X Factor graduate Stacey Solomon is also not listed, even though she fronts Sort Your Life Out and appears on her own reality TV series with husband Joe Brydon would be included on a more comprehensive list for hosting Would I Lie To You?, as well as his role in Gavin & Stacey's Christmas special, and his new job fronting the corporation's forthcoming competition format Destination Would I Lie To You? co-star Lee Mack would also be listed if directly employed by the BBC, thanks to his role as team captain, as well as for writing and starring in sitcom Not Going Mitchell would also have made the list, not just due to his role as the show's other team captain, but also for BBC work such as his lead acting role in drama popular Friday night panel show, Have I Got News For You would also see team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop appear on the list. On one tetchy exchange on Have I Got News For You in 2019, then-MP Johnny Mercer suggested Hislop earned £20,000 per episode - a figure Hislop did not dispute. Other stars who do not appear include Alan Carr (Interior Design Masters), Alison Hammond (Florida Unpacked and Alison Hammond's Big Weekend), Jools Holland (Later) and Dannii Minogue (I Kissed A Boy). Quiz show hosts as a breed are generally nowhere to be seen. Ross Kemp does not appear for Bridge of Lies, nor does Sandi Toksvig for Coren-Mitchell does not appear for Only Connect, while Sue Perkins is absent for Chess Masters: The Endgame (she also hosts Radio 4's Just A Minute).The weekday edition of Pointless would almost certainly land Alexander Armstrong on the list if compiled differently, along with his Pointless Celebrities co-star Richard Osman, who also fronts BBC Two's House of Games. Romesh Ranganathan hosts a variety of programmes for the BBC, including a weekend Radio 2 show, The Weakest Link and his Misinvestigations series, but is unlisted. The huge number of high-profile actors who appear in BBC dramas and comedies are missing, include Sherwood (starring Lesley Manville and David Morrissey) Mr Loverman (Lennie James), Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis), Ludwig (Mitchell and Anna Maxwell Martin), and The Responder (Martin Freeman).Other popular BBC dramas and comedies not eligible to appear on the list include The Gold, Rebus, This City Is Ours, Blue Lights, Mrs Brown's Boys, and the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth who appear in continuing dramas such as Death in Paradise, Waterloo Road, Casualty, EastEnders and Call The Midwife also do not Morning Live presenters Michelle Ackerley and Gethin Jones are absent, as are the stars of Homes Under The Hammer, Bargain Hunt, The Repair Shop and Saturday Kitchen. There are some other stars who fall into a middle category - those who do appear on the list, but only for some of their BBC work. For example, Vernon Kay is listed for his weekday Radio 2 show, the most popular radio programme in the if he co-hosts an episode of The One Show, his fee for that is not included in his published Lauren Laverne does not have her One Show appearances included, but she appears for hosting Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and her BBC Radio 6 Music One Show's other presenters, such as Alex Jones, Roman Kemp, Clara Amfo, Angellica Bell, Ronan Keating, Alex Scott and countless others also wouldn't be listed - although some appear for other BBC presenters such as Clive Myrie, Fiona Bruce, Evan Davis and Amol Rajan are listed for their work on news programmes, but not for the entertainment and documentary formats they also front. As we reported last year, one name who would potentially be at the very top of a more complete list is Michael McIntyre. He is effectively the corporation's equivalent of ITV's Ant & Dec, hired to front Saturday night shows throughout the year such as The Wheel and his Big Bradley Walsh would likely feature for anchoring Gladiators and Blankety Blank, while Graham Norton would appear for commentating on Eurovision and his BBC One chat Winkleman is another of the corporation's biggest names, as the host of Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors, arguably the BBC's biggest new hit of recent years. She also filled in for Norton on his chat show this year. Top Gear may have been rested, but its former lead anchor Paddy McGuinness now fronts a Sunday programme on Radio 2, and also took over from Gregg Wallace as the host of Inside The former Top Gear co-star Freddie Flintoff has similarly gone on to front Field Of Dreams following the motoring show's Wallace may have been sacked, but until his departure he would have appeared on a more comprehensive list for the huge number of MasterChef episodes he fronted, as would his co-star John big name associated with Strictly is missing, with Tess Daly, Shirley Ballas, Anton Du Beke, Motsi Mabuse and Craig Revel Horwood all Apprentice has been one of the BBC's biggest hits for two decades, but the star responsible for its success, Lord Sugar, does not have his salary listed. His assistants Baroness Brady and Tim Campbell don't the BBC's other big business-based show, Dragons' Den, does not list the salaries for its investors Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Sara Davies, Touker Suleyman and Steven Bartlett.
Daily Mail
3 hours ago
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Hollywood star who played Kevin Costner's daughter flashes armpit hair during LA outing... can you guess who?
She's an actress who once played Kevin Costner 's daughter. And on Monday, the 42-year-old star was pictured stepping out in Los Angeles, distinctly showing her armpit hair. The mom-of-two — who, like fellow actor Tom Cruise, belongs to the Church of Scientology — ran errands in a casual look, sporting a sleeveless black top and ripped blue jeans. The Seattle native — who is married to a cyclist — completed the look with white sneakers and a white crossbody bag. She also sported a necklace and gold earrings, and wore her hair styled in a half-updo. Can you guess who she is? That's right! It's Erika Christensen. She's built a career with roles in films like Traffic (2000), Swimfan (2002), The Banger Sisters (2002), The Perfect Score (2004), Flightplan (2005) and more. In Steven Soderbergh's 2000 crime drama Traffic she famously portrayed cocaine user Caroline Wakefield. She won the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance for the role. In 2005, Christensen co-starred in The Upside of Anger as Andy Wolfmeyer, alongside Costner and Joan Allen. She then took on a starring role in the short-lived ABC drama series, Six Degrees, in 2006. From 2010 to 2015, Christensen starred as Julia Braverman-Graham in NBC's family drama series Parenthood. Since 2023, she's been starring as Angie Polaski in ABC's Will Trent. She had guest star roles in television series including Frasier, The Practice, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Touched by an Angel. The star also made a guest appearance on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, which reunited her with her Traffic co-star Topher Grace. Christensen's family moved from Seattle to suburban Los Angeles when she was four. Her parents, who became Scientologists in their twenties, raised her within the Church of Scientology. The Seattle native ran errands in a casual look, sporting a sleeveless black top and ripped blue jeans She also sported a necklace and gold earrings, and wore her hair styled in a half-updo Erika opened up about her association with Scientology on an episode of the Armchair Expert podcast in 2018. 'I can justify things in all kinds of different ways, but basically, like, as a Scientologist. And I definitely cannot speak for every Scientologist about anything because everybody has their own beliefs and comes at it from even other religions and all kinds of stuff,' she shared. 'However, I don't believe this is the first time I have lived on this planet and I basically think I've probably done absolutely everything before,' she added. When asked about the criticism the church has faced throughout the years, she said: 'I don't think that it comes from an actual place of, like, your critiques. I don't think it comes from critical thinking.' Christensen got engaged to cyclist Cole Maness in November 2014. They married on September 5, 2015, in Palm Springs, California. The couple lives in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, and has two daughters, Shane and Polly.
