Rod Stewart has just issued a rant against departing Masterchef host Gregg Wallace.

Gregg Wallace has hosted Masterchef for 17 years, but stepped aside earlier today following a host of complaints about his behaviour. 13 different people have submitted complaints to the BBC, including Scottish broadcaster Kirsty Wark, who was a Celebrity MasterChef contestant in 2011, who revealed he told “sexualised” jokes during filming.

“I think people were uncomfortable. We were essentially a captive audience. People looked embarrassed and just got on with their work,” she said.

“I was actually more angry than anything else, because I thought it was so inappropriate. And in a sense what I thought was it was about power more than anything else, that he felt he could.”

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Gregg Wallace has stepped aside as Masterchef host pending an investigation, Wallace, saying he is “committed to fully co-operating throughout the process”.

Rod Stewart’s wife Penny Lancaster previously appeared on Celebrity Masterchef, and it appears her time on the show wasn’t a happy one. In a social media broadcaster Sir Rod Stewart, knight of the realm, called Gregg Wallace a “tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully”.

The singer said the host “humiliated” Penny Lancaster, but the offensive parts were edited out of the show.

Spelling the host’s name Greg – surely a reference to an enduring Twitter meme – he signs off: “Karma got ya.”

It’s a big week for Rod Stewart, who just confirmed the Legends Slot at Glastonbury Festival next summer.