Gregg Wallace pictured on the set of MasterChef before his departure from the franchise

Higher-ups at the BBC were not “confident” that the former MasterChef host Gregg Wallace could “change what seems to be learned behaviour”, resulting in his exit from the broadcaster, it has been reported.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Gregg had been dropped as the host of MasterChef after 20 years at the helm, following an external investigation into complaints made to the BBC about his past conduct.

On Thursday evening, The Telegraph published details of a letter addressed to the TV personality from BBC Television’s head of compliance, in which it was deemed that he “struggled to distinguish the boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace”, and lacked “awareness” of why his “behaviour impacts others”.

It was also claimed that he had been given relevant training on these matters as recently as 2019.

Excerpts of the letter published in

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