Penny Lancaster has revealed she was given no warning earlier than her husband Sir Rod Stewart launched a blistering assault on Gregg Wallace in her protection final 12 months.
Immediately she spoke to Anita Rani about My Life at Christmas and mirrored on the truth that “each folks” she talked about in her memoir received their comeuppance.
“Speak about timing!” The 54-year-old laughed, nonetheless in disbelief at how occasions unfolded.
A kind of folks is Mone, a conservative life peer since 2015, whose belongings had been frozen after a PPE scandal.
The opposite is Gregg Wallace, who misplaced his long-standing position as MasterChef in July 2025 after quite a lot of behavioral complaints had been made in opposition to him, which he denies.
Wallace dug himself a good deeper gap when he complained that solely “middle-class ladies of a sure age” had criticized his misogynistic habits.
‘Speak about stabbing your self within the foot! Was that his comeback? It simply reveals that he is been gone so lengthy with no penalties that he would not see what he did unsuitable,” Penny mentioned of Gregg’s remark about middle-class ladies of a sure age.
When different ladies talked about Wallace, it was really her husband, Sir Rod, who publicly referred to as him out.
Stewart posted on Instagram that Wallace was a “fats, bald, ill-mannered bully” who had “humiliated my spouse.”
Penny, in the meantime, was a juror at Chelmsford Crown Courtroom, utterly unaware of the place.
Her first response was pure shock when her telephone was turned off; As she pulled into her driveway, she noticed the flood of textual content messages.
‘Oooooh Jeeesus!’ I bear in mind considering,” she admitted, laughing on the reminiscence.
However she additionally understood why Rod felt compelled to talk.
She said that she believed her husband had spoken out after studying about different ladies sharing their unfavourable encounters with Wallace.
“I mentioned, ‘I want you’ll have advised me so I may have ready myself,'” Penny mentioned.
She needed to be prepared for the eye that will inevitably observe.
Her agent shortly referred to as and requested for her model of occasions, however she declined to grant interviews.
As a substitute, the star labored immediately with the investigative crew to make sure her aspect of the story was correctly documented.
Penny mentioned she needed to deal with the scenario by way of official channels reasonably than doing press interviews.
She mentioned Rod’s Instagram submit confirmed she wasn’t the one one going through Wallace.
It additionally highlighted that folks near her had been keen to defend her publicly.
Penny emphasised that it was nonetheless irritating that the altercation even absolutely occurred, but it surely additionally underlines why these conversations about bullying and duty are so mandatory.
“I hope folks study from it,” she mentioned.
Whereas she wished Rod had knowledgeable her concerning the Instagram submit, she appreciated the sentiment — and it additionally prompted extra ladies to talk out.
Trying again, Penny reserves a few of her criticism for Wallace’s manufacturing crew.
She mentioned they let him “transfer on like that” as a result of nobody stepped in to assist her in 2021.
Followers will bear in mind her tearful look on Celeb MasterChef in 2021.
It was an emotional second that mirrored the stress and isolation she skilled throughout filming.
She has now insisted that extra ought to have been completed to guard her on the time.
The dearth of assist exacerbated her emotions of frustration and helplessness.
Regardless of the stress, Lancaster admits she now feels a way of closure.
Seeing Wallace and Mone face the results was each satisfying and surreal, she mentioned.
She factors out that silence on the time was a strategic selection and never an indication of weak point.
“It is about timing and the way you deal with these conditions,” she mentioned firmly.
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