Gregg Wallace accused of telling TV chef Gizzi Erskine she 'couldn't be a real chef because she was a woman' Gregg Wallace has been accused of telling a top female cook that she was not a 'real chef' because she was a woman.
Gizzi Erskine, who is the daughter of the late 2nd Baron Erskine of Rerrick, claimed she got into a 'huge argument' with the MasterChef star after he said she and Sophie Michell would not make it in the culinary world 'because we were women'.
The writer, who presented Channel 4's cookery show Cook Yourself Thin, told the Go To Food podcast that the men she has worked with in the hospitality sector have 'generally' been 'chivalrous'.
He told me and Sophie Michell that we weren't real chefs, and we couldn't possibly be because we were women.
The author continued: 'It's really interesting seeing what's going on, because me and him had a huge argument.
