Penny Lancaster reveals husband Rod Stewart encouraged her to call out Gregg Wallace for her treatment on Celebrity MasterChef - after host stepped down amid misconduct probe
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Penny Lancaster revealed her husband Sir Rod Stewart gave her the courage to call out Gregg Wallace for the way he treated her on Celebrity MasterChef. BBC presenter Gregg, 60, stepped away from MasterChef last month after 13 people, including Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, accused him of 'wrong' and inappropriate 'sexualised' behaviour during filming.
![[BBC presenter Gregg, 60, stepped away from MasterChef last month after 13 people, including Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, accused him of 'wrong' and inappropriate 'sexualised' behaviour during filming (pictured 2011)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/01/93393623-14218063-BBC_presenter_Gregg_60_stepped_away_from_MasterChef_last_month_a-m-72_1734832678654.jpg)
Penny's husband Sir Rod, 79, also issued a furious rant at Gregg calling him a 'tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully' for 'humiliating' his wife on the show. Now, during a recent instalment of Loose Women, Penny, 53, has claimed she would not have felt confident speaking up without her husband's support.
![[Penny's husband Sir Rod also issued a furious rant at Gregg calling him a 'tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully' for 'humiliating' his wife on the show]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/01/93394131-14218063-image-a-61_1734832062335.jpg)
The model, who has been married to the rocker for 17 years, told the Loose Women panel: 'Obviously it didn’t surprise me that my husband had done that and it didn’t surprise me about the incidents that Gregg Wallace has been accused of.'. When asked if she would not have felt confident, Penny added: 'Exactly, yeah. That is why you so often hear historical cases and people kind of question why it takes someone so long to come forward.'.
![[Fans of the show will remember Penny (pictured) leaving Celebrity MasterChef in tears in 2021 after Gregg told her off with the 'serious' delay of her food and then refused to eat it]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/01/92594229-14218063-Sir_Rod_Stewart_has_called_Wallace_a_tubby_bald_headed_ill_manne-a-65_1734832307341.jpg)
Penny Lancaster, 53, revealed her husband Sir Rod Stewart, 79, gave her the courage to call out Gregg Wallace for the way he treated her on Celebrity MasterChef. BBC presenter Gregg, 60, stepped away from MasterChef last month after 13 people, including Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, accused him of 'wrong' and inappropriate 'sexualised' behaviour during filming (pictured 2011).
![[Following Gregg's departure of the show, Rod issued a furious rant, saying: 'So Greg Wallace gets fired from Master Chef. Good riddance Wallace... You humiliated my wife when she was on the show, but you had that bit cut out didn't you?']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/22/01/92595175-14218063-Following_Gregg_s_departure_Rod_wrote_So_Greg_Wallace_gets_fired-a-66_1734832336941.jpg)
