Ammon News - Model Penny Lancaster has said she "felt ashamed and belittled" by how former MasterChef host Gregg Wallace treated her on the TV show.

Lancaster, who is also a TV personality, and is married to rock singer Rod Stewart, told Sky News' The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee programme that she also felt let down by MasterChef's production company Banijay UK.

"I didn't feel like I was supported in that moment, I felt ashamed and belittled by the way Greg Wallace had treated me but equally I felt disappointed that the production company hadn't come to my rescue," Lancaster, 54 and a MasterChef contestant in 2021, said.

"There is a long way to go, but just by people coming forward and being honest about their experiences I think will help in the long term."

At the end of July, Wallace, 60, apologised after a report commissioned by Banijay UK, and carried out by law firm Lewis Silkin, found 45 out of 83 allegations against him were substantiated.

Sir Rod Stewart criticised Wallace on Instagram in November 2024 and claimed he "humiliated" his wife when she was on the show.

He wrote: "Good riddance Wallace... You humiliated my wife when she was on the show, but you had that bit cut out didn't you?

"You're a tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully."



Sky News