Rod Stewart Calls Gregg Wallace a ‘Tubby, Bald-Headed, Sick-Mannered Bully’

Rod Stewart is talking his thoughts.

The British rocker, 79, took to Instagram on Nov. 28 to share his response to information that Gregg Wallace is stepping away from the U.Okay.’s MasterChef amid allegations of sexual misconduct. In a heated message, Stewart known as Wallace out for alleged mistreatment of his spouse Penny Lancaster when she was a contestant on Movie star MasterChef in 2021.

“Good Riddance Wallace … You humiliated my spouse when she was on the present, however you had that half reduce out didn’t you?” he wrote. “You’re a tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully. Karma received you.”

Reps for Wallace haven’t responded to a request for remark from PEOPLE on Stewart’s claims.

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Earlier on Thursday, a number of shops reported that MasterChef‘s manufacturing firm Banijay UK launched an investigation in opposition to Wallace, 60, and mentioned in a press release that he’s “dedicated to totally co-operating all through the method” however wouldn’t be concerned with the present throughout that point.

“We take any points which might be raised with us severely and we’ve sturdy processes in place to cope with them,” a spokesperson for BBC, the community that airs MasterChef, advised PEOPLE in a press release. “We’re all the time clear that any behaviour which falls beneath the requirements anticipated by the BBC is not going to be tolerated.”

Wallace took to Instagram to share a number of phrases along with his followers.

“I wish to thank all of the folks getting in contact, reaching out and displaying their help,” Wallace mentioned in a video posted to Instagram. “It’s good of you, thanks very a lot.”

In line with BBC Information, they despatched a letter outlining the allegations made by 13 people who labored with Wallace throughout a variety of exhibits he offered and hosted over the course of 17 years to Wallace’s representatives on Nov. 26.

In response, BBC Information and different shops reported that Wallace’s attorneys slammed the claims, saying “it’s fully false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature.” 

“While these complainants haven’t raised the allegations instantly with our present producers or mother or father firm Banijay UK, we really feel that it’s acceptable to conduct a direct, exterior assessment to totally and impartially examine,” Banijay UK mentioned in a press release obtained by a number of shops, together with Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter.

One in every of Wallace’s accusers is Scottish tv presenter and journalist Kirsty Wark, who advised BBC Information as a part of its investigation — which they famous was fully impartial of the manufacturing firm’s present investigation — that Wallace advised “sexualized” jokes throughout filming when she was a Movie star MasterChef contestant again in 2011. 

“There have been two events specifically the place he used sexualized language in entrance of numerous folks, and it wasn’t as if anybody engaged with this,” she mentioned in a video shared in a BBC Information article. “It was fully one-way visitors, however I believe folks had been uncomfortable, and [it was] one thing I did not actually count on to occur.” 

The article additional reported that the BBC had beforehand warned Wallace that two ladies complained about his conduct in 2018 on the sequence Unimaginable Celebrities. The ladies alleged that Wallace “talked brazenly about his intercourse life to workers on the present” and made them really feel uncomfortable. 

The outlet acknowledged that Wallace apologized at the moment and the ladies who complained had been supplied counseling.