A second competitor asked to be published from the current BBC season Masterchef.
This follows another competitor, Sarah Shafi, saying that they were published out of the British show after complaining about the licensed hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode. BBC News was the first with a report on the second competitor that was out.
“Another contributor has decided that, given the recent events, they would like to be included,” said a spokesperson for Banijay Uk, who is making the series via the SHINE TV subsidiary. “We have of course accepted their wishes and edited them out of the show.”
It is understood that the individual asked not to be identified and that the producers respect these wishes.
Wallace and Torode were both minced from the long -term culinary competition after an investigation that examined the behavior on the set of the first. Some 83 complaints were filed against Wallace, with more than half of half, including one of the unwanted physical contacts, while Torode was trained in the shooting line after the investigation confirmed a complaint that he had used a racist term in 2018.
Wallace, who is autism, has always played the gravity of his alleged actions and has engaged a lawyer to support his assertion, he is the victim of invalid discrimination. He recently told the Sun newspaper that he was “so sorry” to have turned people upside down, but insisted that he was “not a groper, a sexual pest or a indicator.”
Torode said he had “no memory” of the incident during which he would have used a seriously racist term and qualified his use as “completely unacceptable”.
The BBC was the subject of a serious fire for broadcasting the season, which was launched after the dismissal of the hosts. The British public broadcaster said he had the support of amateur leaders who compete in the show.
“By showing the series, which was filmed last year, this does not decrease our point of view of the gravity of the confirmed conclusions against the two presenters,” said the broadcaster. “However, we believe that the broadcast of this series is the right thing to do for these cooks who have given so much to the process. We want them to be properly recognized and give the public the choice to watch the series.”
The new season started earlier this month, but was strongly published. Many jokes and brand jokes between Torode, Wallace and the competitors have been removed, leaving more sterile production behind. Irish chief Anna Hughes will replace Wallace in the later episodes of the season. Having been filmed in November of last year, Wallace died while the allegations were revealed.
Shine TV makes the program alongside Ziji Productions, the production house of Masterchef Creator Franc Roddam, who recently declared to Deadline that he was “saddened” by the storm of misconduct “because it is a wonderful spectacle and that it brought great pleasure to many people”.
