The Latest Breaking News from Gregg Wallace

The Australian chef, 59, reportedly used the racial term while singing along to Kanye West’s Gold Digger at an after-work gathering with colleagues

Torode, 59, was fired for using ‘an extremely offensive racist term’

The presenter says that he is ‘fairly confident’ that the BBC will still show the series

It was reported that BBC and Banijay executives debated whether to air the series after the investigation

Celebrity chef ‘believes there is no proof’ he used ‘offensive racist term’

BBC sacks John Torode after probe into racist remark on MasterChef set. What happened behind the scenes? Read the full breakdown now.

The depressing and predictable revelations about Gregg Wallace’s behaviour on Masterchef isn’t the only recent shocking example of the harassment, abuse and mistreatment of women at work.

STATE OF THE ARTS: From Glastonbury to ‘MasterChef’ to the split with Nadiya Hussain, the BBC has been embroiled in a succession of intensifying scandals over the past few weeks. Fiona Sturges asks why the Beeb can’t seem to stop shooting itself in the foot

MasterChef presenter John Torode’s use of a racist term has cost him his job. But he was once embroiled in an entirely different cultural insensitivity row