The BBC said Roux's departure was "due to a conflict in his commercial interests". I think that comes across very plainly, and it was at the forefront of my decision making." "If I were more interested in the commercial aspect of my media personality I would be a very happy multi-millionaire.
Stressing his ongoing respect and affection for the corporation, the chef, who has also presented Food and Drink and Michel Roux's Service, insisted his decision was not because he put his commercial interests first.
He had been prepared to give up the TV adverts to reach agreement, he said, but "I don't feel that every avenue was explored to the full ", and so he had reluctantly decided to leave. I regard them as close friends of the Roux family, and it precedes any kind of media work that I have done". Speaking from the noisy kitchen of Le Gavroche shortly before evening service, Roux said the relationship with the Scottish potato firm was commercial, "but that is not why I continue to work with them. Roux, the son of fellow Michelin-starred chef Albert Roux and nephew of Michel Roux Sr, has been endorsing Albert Bartlett potatoes on packs, and serving them in his award-winning restaurant Le Gavroche, for more than a decade.īut following a series of TV adverts screened before Christmas, the relationship was deemed to have fallen foul of the BBC's strict rules on commercial interests – though the chef said on Tuesday he was not clear how, precisely, he had broken the broadcaster's guidelines. He said: "The BBC needs to recognise … that, while we love to be associated with top quality television, we have other professional commitments that are as important to us as programme making." After 140 episodes and six wildly popular series, could it all have come down to a potato? The chef and presenter Michel Roux Jr has confirmed that he is to step down from MasterChef: The Professionals – and leave the BBC – following a dispute with the corporation over his endorsement of a brand of spud.ĭescribing his negotiations with the broadcaster as a "frustrating process", Roux questioned if the BBC understood "the realities of today's commercial world".
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