Overview

• In a dismissal letter, Claire Powell, head of compliance for BBC Television, ruled Wallace unfit for future assignments due to an inability to respect workplace boundaries
• Banijay UK’s inquiry by law firm Lewis Silkin cleared Wallace of serious groping claims while confirming his repeated use of inappropriate sexual remarks from 2005 to 2018
• More than 50 new complaints emerged this week, with 11 women accusing Wallace of unwanted touching and others detailing crude sexual comments
• Internal correspondence shows that in 2019 Kate Phillips warned Wallace that any further misconduct would end his BBC career
• The BBC is weighing whether to broadcast the next MasterChef series featuring Wallace as it awaits publication of an executive summary of the external review