"I was never the caricature now being sold for clicks," Wallace responded in a statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday.

The MasterChef host had been the subject of an independent investigation about his past conduct for a number of months.

Banijay, the production company for MasterChef, is conducting an external review into allegations of historical misconduct.

GREGG Wallace could be heading for the MasterChef kitchen bin — as the BBC weighs up scrapping his entire final series.

Gregg Wallace has been fired as a presenter on MasterChef following an independent investigation into his past conduct.

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The TV presenter confirmed he was stepping away from MasterChef last year.

In a lengthy statement, Gregg Wallace confirmed that he has been sacked from the BBC and vowed to "not go out quietly".

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