John Torode was sacked from MasterChef for using “the worst racial slur there is”, Richard Osman has claimed. Osman made the claim in his podcast, The Rest Is Entertainment, during a discussion about the exit of Torode and his co-presenter Gregg Wallace from the BBC show.

Former MasterChef judge John Torode has been dismissed from the BBC programme after an investigation found he said - what Richard Osman has described as - "probably the worst racial slur there is". The allegation,