Several allegations of misconduct have been made against the MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace.

The 60-year-old has been a co-presenter and judge of the popular cooking show since 2005.

He is currently being investigated by MasterChef's production company Banijay UK after complaints were made to the BBC last week, and has stepped down from the show.

Wallace's legal team has said: "It is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature".

What are the allegations made against Gregg Wallace?

Thirteen people have complained "in relation to historical allegations of misconduct while working with Gregg Wallace" on Banijay UK programmes, according to the company.

One of them is broadcaster Kirsty Wark, who was a celebrity contestant on MasterChef in 2011, Sky News reports.

The Newsnight presenter told the BBC Wallace used "sexualised language" during filming.

She explained: "There were two occasions in particular where he used sexualised language in front of a number of people and it wasn't as if anyone engaged with this. It was completely one-way traffic.

"I think people were uncomfortable and [it was] something that I really didn't expect to happen.

"I was actually more angry than anything else, because I thought it was so inappropriate. And in a sense what I thought was it was about power more than anything else, that he felt he could."

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Overall, these allegations span across multiple TV shows between 2005 and 2022.

This investigation comes after a previous BBC review into reports of an alleged incident in 2018 when he appeared on Impossible Celebrities.

Reports about that review, which found he could continue working at the corporation, surfaced in October.

Wallace, who denied any wrongdoing, said those claims had been investigated "promptly" at the time and that he had not said "anything sexual" while appearing on the game show more than half a decade ago.

Other allegations against him have emerged since the initial announcement.

Sir Rod Stewart claimed on his Instagram story that Wallace "humiliated" his wife Penny Lancaster while she was on MasterChef but "had that bit cut" from the broadcast

Author and actor Emma Kennedy, who won Celebrity MasterChef in 2012, said she believes she saw Wallace touch the bottom of a young woman who was working as a photographer's assistant.

Presenter Kirstie Allsopp has claimed his behaviour was "totally unprofessional" when they filmed a TV pilot together.

She wrote: "Within 1 hour of meeting Gregg Wallace he told me of a sex act that he and his partner at the time enjoyed 'every morning'. She'd just left the room, we were filming a pilot."

TV director and producer Dawn Elrick told Sky News several female production staff complained to her about Wallace's conduct.

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She said women allege a pattern of behaviour that amounted to "bragging in a heightened sexual way" and using graphic language she describes as "lewd" and "quite filthy" - sometimes when cameras were still rolling.

Ms Elrick said she compiled the allegations in a letter to the BBC, who replied requesting more information and evidence.

But she said the response "kind of just missed the point" because, for production staff, coming forward is "very hard".