Penny Lancaster nails festive fashion in red sequin skirt as she joins brother Oliver at Only Fools And Horses Musical gala night – after addressing Gregg Wallace misconduct storm

Penny Lancaster put on a very Christmassy show on Wednesday night as she took her brother to the Only Fools And Horses Musical gala night at Eventim Apollo in London.

The model, 53, dressed for the season in a red sequin midi skirt and matching gold glitter high heels.

She added a matching bright red sweater with encrusted gemstones at the collar and layered it over a white button-up shirt underneath.

Penny bundled up against the cold in a white trench coat and carried a gold clutch as she cozy up with her rarely seen brother Oliver outside the theater.

The presenter cut a cheerful figure at the gala, a week after she broke her silence on the investigation into Gregg Wallace amid a series of allegations of misconduct.

Appearing on Loose Women on Thursday, Penny first addressed the claims after her husband Rod Stewart punched Gregg following his departure from MasterChef.

The 60-year-old presenter quit MasterChef after thirteen people, including Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, accused him of ‘wrong’ and inappropriate ‘sexualised’ behavior during filming.

Penny said she was a ‘victim and witness’ of Gregg’s bullying on the set of the BBC show in 2021 and claimed he had ‘intimidate many people and caused distress’.

She said: “I absolutely witnessed and was a victim of some of Gregg Wallace’s bullying and harassment behavior. And unfortunately, many people from the production team also witnessed this.

“I really feel like he used his position of power to, I think, intimidate and cause suffering to a lot of people on set.

‘And it’s really a shame that someone like him gets away with that, while others stand by and let it happen at the same time. And it’s clear that a lot of people have come forward.’

Following the news that Gregg had stepped down from MasterChef, Penny’s husband Rod delivered an angry tirade against the presenter on Instagram.

He branded him a ‘fat, bald, ill-mannered bully’ for ‘humiliating’ his wife when she appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2021.

Explaining the decision behind Rod’s angry post, Penny said: ‘My husband couldn’t hold back when he heard people talking about the disturbing behaviour.

“Protective husband was like, ‘I’m not going to stay silent, I have to say something,’ because he realized how upset I was at the time.”

She added that she only found out about her husband’s Instagram rant after the fact, in which she said, “I was actually on jury duty and you have to completely turn off your phones, so I was off the grid for a while.”

‘And when I turned my phone back on, I got a message from a friend: “Oh my god, how amazing was that message your husband sent!” And I thought, “What message? What has he done?”

However, Penny confessed that she also felt ‘vindicated’ when she saw other people coming forward with their claims, explaining: ‘I was in shock and then I thought about all the ramifications of it all.

“A day or two after that, I felt a little vindicated that something had been put there. Going back to the whole MeToo thing, it’s shocking to think how many women suffer at the hands of men in positions of power, who are too afraid to speak out, and who don’t feel like they will be supported or heard .

“So sometimes it can take a few years later for someone to say something and it gives the other victims and people who suffered the confidence to come forward.”

Penny was left in tears during her appearance on the show after Gregg told her her food had been ‘severely’ delayed and then refused to eat her food.

The moment when Gregg refused to eat Penny’s tartar sauce – scolding her for using “whole eggs instead of egg yolks” – resurfaced after her husband Rod branded him a “fat bully.”

Gregg also chastised Penny – a volunteer special police officer – for serving her food late to the critics in the quarter-finals, leaving her in tears.

Gregg quit MasterChef amid allegations of ‘sexualised’ behavior during filming of the hit BBC show.

Following the announcement, Sir Rod wrote: ‘Good riddance Wallace… You humiliated my wife when she was on the show but you cut that bit out didn’t you? You’re a fat, bald, ill-mannered bully. Karma has got you.

The BBC has revealed that 13 people complained about his behavior while working with him on five shows over a 17-year period, from 2005 to 2022.

Kirsty claims that Gregg twice told stories and jokes of a ‘sexualised nature’ in front of the contestants and crew during the filming of Celebrity MasterChef in 2011, adding that his jokes and comments were ‘really, really out of place were.

‘There were two occasions in particular where he used sexualised language in front of a number of people and it wasn’t as if anyone was concerned about it. It was completely one-way traffic. But I think it made people uncomfortable and I really didn’t expect this to happen,” she said.

The BBC and MasterChef production company Banijay declined to comment.

In a resurfaced clip from Penny’s time on the show, the former model was humiliated when her fried calamari and homemade tartar sauce went wrong, with the judges refusing to taste what was a ‘raw egg/oil milkshake’.

After Penny was kicked out of the kitchen in 2021, she shared a cryptic post on Instagram that referenced “someone’s behavior.”

She wrote on Instagram, “When you finally learn that someone’s behavior has more to do with their own struggles than it ever did with you, you learn grace.”

The BBC claims Gregg walked away from MasterChef after BBC News sent a letter to his agent on Tuesday detailing allegations made by 13 people and giving him the right of reply.

They say he was warned after a complaint was filed in 2018, but new historical claims emerged in the summer of 2024.

Gregg is “committed to cooperating fully throughout the process,” according to the show’s production company, Banijay UK.

The chef has since thanked people for their support following allegations that he simulated a sex act and walked into the MasterChef studio ‘completely naked’ apart from a ‘sock covering his penis’.

Gregg is accused of miming a sex act in front of a member of the show’s production staff, who was on his knees cleaning his pants during filming, according to the lurid and so far unsubstantiated allegations.

The grocer-turned-host is also accused of making “disgusting sex-related jokes”, including one about an “aunt” while tasting a contestant’s dish on the show.