Gregg Wallace and John Torode “were never friends” despite being co-hosts for 20 years, a former MasterChef employee has claimed. Wallace and Torode were sacked as presenters of the cookery show this week after a seven-month investigation upheld allegations made against the pair.

Despite presenting MasterChef for 20 years together, they were "never friends", it's claimed - after the pair were both sacked from the show