John Torode sacked as presenter of MasterChef

He follows Gregg Wallace out the door 

The broadcaster upheld a complaint against Torode that was investigated as part of the inquiry into his Masterchef co-star Gregg Wallace. 

Torode haș already commented on the allegation saying he does not remember the incident. 

Adding: "I do not believe that it happened."

His firing plunges the BBC’s flagship cooking show into crisis after more than 40 separate allegations emerged against Gregg Wallace for a range of forms of inappropriate behaviour. 

Wallace also denies the claims, and came under fire last year when he said all of the allegations against him were from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age.”

If Masterchef is now to return to British screens it will have to be in an all-new format with new hosts.