Overview
- Court documents show the claim against the BBC and BBC Studios has been discontinued with no order as to costs.
- A BBC spokesperson said Wallace withdrew the case shortly before a 16 February preliminary hearing.
- Wallace had sought up to £10,000, alleging the broadcaster withheld or wrongly redacted his personal data and caused him distress and harassment.
- The BBC said it treated the requests as complex, apologized in August, and provided his personal data on 7 October, arguing this undercut any claim for damages.
- Wallace departed MasterChef after an external review upheld 45 of 83 historical misconduct allegations, including one finding of unwelcome physical contact.