The ghostwriter of Gregg Wallace’s 2012 autobiography has claimed he sexually harassed her. Shannon Kyle told BBC Newsnight the MasterChef presenter answered the door wearing only a towel, which he later dropped, made “revolting” and “sickening” sexualised suggestions to her, and touched her inappropriately.

MasterChef star Gregg Wallace has been hitting headlines in recent weeks after being accused of making inappropriate sexual remarks and jokes by more than a dozen people over a 17-year period

As Gregg Wallace, the embattled MasterChef co-presenter, once said of his boss: “The only problem Franc has is counting his money.”Roddam may wish that were still the case today, with MasterChef engulfed in the biggest crisis in its 34-year history by allegations about Wallace’s behaviour on set.