{"id":549959,"date":"2026-06-23T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/549959\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:56:11","slug":"banijay-u-k-chief-says-it-was-right-to-investigate-masterchefs-gregg-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/549959\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay U.K. Chief Says It Was Right to Investigate ‘MasterChef’s’ Gregg Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBanijay U.K. boss Patrick Holland defended the company\u2019s investigation into sacked \u201cMasterChef<\/a>\u201d host Gregg Wallace, saying it was \u201ccompletely right\u201d for the production company to take the reigns over BBC<\/a>, which is the show\u2019s longtime broadcaster.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are independent producers,\u201d Holland said. \u201cWe have our duties and responsibilities, legal responsibilities to our staff that work for us as producers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think as producers it was completely right that it was Banijay that did that investigation that instructed the third-party solicitors, because it was an investigation into one of our shows. And I think the BBC were quite clear at the time that this was a Banijay investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLongtime \u201cMasterChef\u201d host Gregg Wallace was fired from the BBC show<\/a> last summer after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct.<\/p>\n

\n\tHolland made the statement during a Culture, Media and Sport Committee inquiry into the future of the BBC at the House of Commons. The committee is comprised of cross-party MPs.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the focus of the evidence session on Tuesday morning was on the relationship between the corporation and producers, one MP took the opportunity to ask whether having parallel complaints procedures at the BBC and its producers was \u201cconfusing\u201d to the viewer, particularly in light of the potential role of the soon-to-be-launched Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe BBC obviously has a robust complaints procedure [but] you can\u2019t really complain against a production company as a viewer\u2026 you complain about them as if you are an employee,\u201d Holland noted, admitting that: \u201cHistorically the communication between production companies and the BBC [wasn\u2019t] as good\u2026 Over the last five, 10 years they\u2019ve become much stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added that CIISA could offer a \u201cless complicated\u201d way forward, saying: \u201chaving a standards authority, which is overarching and is a way of being able to be the figurehead [in an investigation], which is across the producer and the broadcaster, that could be a way in which we evolve that is hopefully less complicated for the audience to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCIISA\u2019s flagship reporting service, which has been years in the making, is set to launch this September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banijay U.K. boss Patrick Holland defended the company\u2019s investigation into sacked \u201cMasterChef\u201d host Gregg Wallace, saying it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[3412,18,117,19,17,41015,128],"class_list":["post-549959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-masterchef","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116799300372086047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}