has posted a response to , saying they come from ‘middle-class women of a certain age’.
The MasterChef judge, 60, has stepped away from the programme as historical allegations have come to light and are being investigated.
He has been accused of and asking for the personal numbers of female production staff in a letter a producer and director claimed to have sent to the BBC in 2022.
He also faces allegations of inappropriate sexual comments from 13 people across a range of shows over a 17-year period, as reported by BBC News, which said it sent a letter to his representatives earlier this week.
Wallace has nowon social media in a video on Instagram.
He said: ‘I’ve been doing MasterChef for 20 years, amateur, celebrity and professional MasterChef, and in that time, I have worked with over 4,000 contestants of all different ages, different backgrounds, all walks of life.
‘Apparently now, I’m reading in the paper, there’s been 13 complaints in that time.
‘In the newspaper, I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age, just from Celebrity MasterChef. This isn’t right.’
In a second video, he adds: ‘In 20 years, over 20 years of television, can you imagine how many women, female contestants on MasterChef, have made sexual remarks, or sexual innuendo, can you imagine?’
Wallace has been accused of making ‘inappropriate sexual jokes’ and faces allegations that he ‘mimicked sex acts’ and walked around the studio almost ‘completely naked’.
The latest allegations also accuse Wallace of groping three women in different incidents on and off set.
Several stars making, Ulrika Jonsson and Katy Brand.
Jonsson, 57, told The Telegraph that when she competed on Celebrity MasterChef in 2017, Wallace allegedly had to apologise after making a ‘rape joke’, which caused another female contestant to become ‘really distressed.’
Former Newsnight presenter Wark, 69, claimed Wallace relayed stories and jokes of a ‘sexualised nature’ in front of contestants and crew and that she felt they were ‘really, really in the wrong place’ when she was on Celebrity MasterChef in 2011.
Charlotte Crosby, who was a contestant on the most recent series, described Wallace as ‘extremely unpleasant’ while she filmed the BBC show.
Wallace’s lawyers previously said ‘it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature’.
