It shouldn’t have taken powerful “middle class women of a certain age” like Kirsty Wark and Aasmah Mir speaking up for BBC bosses to do something about Gregg Wallace, says Alys Denby

I have met Gregg Wallace and, since he has retained lawyers, I’d probably better leave it there. Let’s just say his approaches had nothing to do with my personal charms as a then 20-something sub-editor at a magazine in which he had a column, but were characteristic of the way he has been described as treating so many of the women who cross his path.

Given that my experience with the Masterchef presenter seems far from unique, it does raise the question of why it has taken so long for him to be exposed. His behaviour towards me was uncomfortable and inappropriate, but fell short of outright assault or harassment. Like so many experiences with men I encountered in my younger years, I laughed it off and have regularly deployed it as an anecdote since. I am not a victim. But added to the catalogue of other complaints, his declarations about my appearance and the things he’d like to do to me if it........

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