A contestant for the upcoming amateur season of MasterChef has emerged with fresh claims against Gregg Wallace, while slamming the BBC for editing her out of the show.
Sarah Shafi, who was set to appear on the show's yet to be aired season, said Mr Wallace, 60, made her feel 'uncomfortable', and described MasterChef as a bad experience from the outset.
Setting out her hopes for the show, in an interview for Newsnight, she claimed to have been 'eyed up and ogled' by the TV host, before adding: 'I went there being faithful to food...it just felt that was very uncomfortable for me.'
When asked what Gregg Wallace had done to make her feel 'so bad', Ms Shafi said it began from a 'throwaway comment' made by the grocer about his reputation with women, however she couldn't remember it verbatim.
She added: 'I didn't know how to respond to that. And that I just thought, where's that come from? Why was he saying that to me?
