Gregg Wallace escapes the country with his wife amid sexual misconduct investigation
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Gregg Wallace has escaped the country as an investigation into a series of misconduct allegations against him continues. The former MasterChef judge posted a picture of him suited and booted on his way to dinner with wife Anna aboard a plush cruise. Wearing a bow tie and grinning to the camera, the presenter proudly boasted about his trip about the luxury Queen Anne ship on his Instagram stories to his followers - before deleting it. “Big date night,” he wrote alongside it, with Anna seen over his shoulder as they made their way to the Sir Samuel’s restaurant - which prides itself on its “succulent steaks” and seafood platters.
They are on a North Sea and Baltic cruise with Cunard to Hamburg, having set sail on Sunday from Southampton and stopping off in the European cities of Paris, Bruges and Rotterdam, before docking in Hamburg, Germany, yesterday. Minutes after posting the video on Thursday night it disappeared, with Gregg taking it down. Wallace, 60, has been a speaker on the Queen Anne in the past year. It is not known if he was on the cruise in a professional or personal capacity.
The presenter is facing allegations from 13 people across a range of shows over 17 years, with MasterChef producers Banijay currently carrying out an investigation into his behaviour. He has largely stayed quiet on social media after issuing a grovelling apology for calling his accusers "middle-class women of a certain age” in a video rant on his Instagram. Wallace later ate humble pie, saying: "I want to apologise for any offence that I caused with my post yesterday and any upset I may have caused. I wasn't in a good headspace when I posted it, I've been under a huge amount of stress, a lot of emotion, I felt very alone, under siege yesterday when I posted it. It's obvious to me I need to take some time out now, while this investigation is under way." Household names like Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark and Location, Location, Location’s Kirstie Alsopp have called out his past behaviour.
