Gregg Wallace suing the BBC for 'distress and harassment' following sacking

Gregg Wallace is suing the BBC and 1 of its subsidiaries for causing him "distress and harassment", aft being sacked from the corp successful July.

The former MasterChef presenter is claiming up to £10,000 successful damages from the BBC and BBC Studios Distribution Limited, who helium says failed to disclose his idiosyncratic data, according to tribunal documents.

Wallace, 60, apologised aft a report, commissioned by the cooking show's accumulation institution Banijay UK, upheld multiple humanities accusations against him, mostly for the usage of inappropriate connection and humour, but including 1 of "unwanted carnal contact".

Wallace suggested his precocious diagnosed autism had played a portion successful his conduct.

After the merchandise of the report, the BBC said Wallace's behaviour had failed to unrecorded up to the corporation's values, adding, "we judge much could and should person been done sooner."

MasterChef co-host John Torode besides had an allegation that he utilized an "extremely violative racist term" upheld, arsenic portion of the aforesaid investigation. Torode was besides dropped from the amusement successful July, and said helium had "absolutely nary recollection" of the alleged incident.

The BBC and BBC Studios person not yet filed a defence to Wallace's assertion and told Sky News they volition not beryllium commenting connected ongoing ineligible proceedings.

In tribunal documents, seen by the PA quality agency, barrister Lawrence Power said that Wallace had requested "personal data" from the BBC and BBC Studios related to "his work, contractual relations and conduct".

Mr Power continued that Wallace made taxable entree requests (SARs) to some the BBC and BBC Studios connected 6 March.

Requests for entree to idiosyncratic information should beryllium processed wrong a month, but this deadline tin beryllium extended if the accusation is complex, Mr Power said.

The barrister continued that connected 7 August, the BBC emailed Wallace to apologise for the hold and stated they were "taking each tenable steps" to process the petition successful "a timely mode arsenic imaginable going forward" but said helium has inactive not received a response.

BBC Studios is claimed to person told Wallace that it was withholding parts of his idiosyncratic information owed to "freedom of expression".

Mr Power said that the assemblage had "wrongly redacted" accusation and had "unlawfully failed to proviso each of the claimant's idiosyncratic data".

He said: "By crushed of the defendants failing to afloat comply with the SARs made by the claimant for his ain idiosyncratic data, the defendants acted successful breach of their statutory work and successful doing truthful caused distress and harassment to the claimant."

Mr Power said that Wallace was seeking damages for "distress, harassment and nonaccomplishment of amenity not exceeding £10,000", damages nether the UK General Data Protection Regulation, and interest.

Wallace is besides seeking a tribunal bid that the BBC and BBC Studios comply with the taxable entree requests.

The BBC made the determination to air the latest bid of MasterChef this summer, with Wallace and Torode inactive astatine the helm, contempt some men having been fired since it was filmed.