Gregg Wallace, co-host of the wildly popular BBC show MasterChef, has apologized on social media for his response to the misconduct allegations that have been leveled against him. "I want to apologise for any offence that I caused with my post yesterday and any upset I may have caused to a lot of people.

Television presenter Aggie MacKenzie, who competed on “Celebrity MasterChef” in 2011, told ITV on Monday that Wallace made “endless smutty jokes” and alleged that “he’s been allowed to carry on in his own sweet way for many, many years.”

Gregg Wallace, the presenter for the U.K. version of "MasterChef" who is currently under investigation, apologized for disparaging comments he made about his accusers. Wallace has been accused by 13 different people of making inappropriate sexual comments to co-workers over a 17-year period.

British TV host Gregg Wallace apologized following the backlash to his initial response after multiple sexual misconduct allegations

Wallace's behaviour on MasterChef is under investigation after the BBC and Banijay UK received multiple complaints.

The BBC announced last week that Wallace was to step down from his MasterChef presenting role amid misconduct allegations

What next for Gregg Wallace? Rather than laying low and riding out accusations of impropriety from his Kent mansion, the embattled MasterChef host has instead decided to go to war with the “middle class women of a certain age” who have had the gall to report him.

Labour MP Rupa Huq warns the BBC that continuing to broadcast MasterChef this week ‘sends the wrong signal’ after Gregg Wallace’s outburst against ‘middle class women of a certain age’

John Torode ’s rare comments about Gregg Wallace are being dredged up in the wake of the allegations against his co-host. On Thursday (28 November), it was revealed that Wallace had stepped down as host of the BBC cookery series amid an investigation into alleged inappropriate comments made across a 17-year period.