Restaurant critic Grace Dent and Irish chef Anna Haugh will replace Gregg Wallace and John Torode as MasterChef judges, according to reports.

Dent, 51, and Haugh, 44, will join the amateur cooking series, The Sun reported.

It comes after Wallace was sacked following a series of misconduct allegations relating to his time on the show.

Wallace, who also co-presented spin-offs Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals , issued an apology saying he was “deeply sorry for any distress caused” and that he “never set out to harm or humiliate” in the wake of an investigation which upheld 45 out of 83 allegations against him.

Meanwhile Torode, who appeared in the 21st series of MasterChef , which was filmed last year, also left the show after he was the subject of an allegat

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