Melanie Sykes reveals she has had her breast implants removed and is recovering from surgery - 14 years after getting the cosmetic procedure

Melanie Sykes has revealed she's had her breast implants removed two months ago, she told fans in her latest YouTube video on Saturday.

The TV presenter, 54, went under the knife in 2010 after admitting she 'grew insecure about her boobs' after the birth of her two sons Roman, 22, and Valentino, 20.

But after a decade, Melanie decided to ditch her implants and embrace her natural body.

Melanie admitted she has had 'deep bruising' after suffering a complication with her pectoral muscle in the surgery.

She said: 'I actually about two months ago had my breast implants removed and so I've been recovering from that.

'During surgery something happened to the pectoral muscle so that's took a while to [recover], there was deep bruising in there and it is getting better. 

'But I have recovering from that and all the while reading, reading, reading, painting, painting, painting. I've bought loads of classical music and I've been composing, it's been like physio.'

'I've been positively thriving. But because of my extreme sensitivity, [I have] just absolute acuteness of feeling.'

Speaking about her decision to get a boob job in 2012, Melanie told MailOnline 'it was one of the best things she had ever done.'

She said: 'I had a boob job two years ago and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. I wanted my boobs to look like they did in my heyday. 

'It’s a very personal decision and I don’t judge anybody for choosing to have plastic surgery.'

In the video, Melanie also spoke out amid the ongoing Gregg Wallace row and his sexual misconduct investigation.

Melanie previously claimed that spending time with MasterChef presenter Gregg on the BBC show in 2021 made her walk away from her television career.

Gregg, 60, has stepped away from the BBC show after 13 people, including Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, accused him of 'wrong' and inappropriate 'sexualised' behaviour during filming.

The claims are across a 17-year period and include those of inappropriate behaviour, including roaming around on set naked with a sock on his penis, inappropriate jokes and two claims of groping crew members. 

In a new YouTube video posted on Sunday Melanie did not directly address the Gregg situation when she spoke but referred to certain recent media reports.

Reflecting, she said: 'I'm deep in thought as always, emotional and I'm so grateful and happy with everything in my life. 

'But there are so many things as a human that are painful and difficult to listen to.

'I look out at the birds in the morning and they are in such harmony and I don't understand why we can't do that. 

'There are times in my life when I just don't engage with the media narrative in any shape or form and there are periods when I do because I want to know what's happening...'

Melanie made comments about Gregg in her autobiography, titled Illuminated, which was published last year, and expanded on them in recent days in another video posted on YouTube. 

Mel claimed Gregg greeted her on MasterChef by asking if models eat food, which she said she found 'unprofessional' and laced with 'ignorance and disrespect'.

She also said the grocer-turned broadcaster spent time 'barking orders' in such a manner that made her want to leave the show.

And Gregg apparently told her that appearing on his show would do a lot for her career prospects.

She said: 'I didn't know what to say, so I smiled and said 'yes', but I was really thinking, 'Yes, you have finally helped me decide to end my television career once and for all'.

Melanie said she made an informal complaint against Wallace, and claimed she found conduct on the MasterChef set 'jaw-dropping'.

Melanie is best known for the Boddingtons advert in the 1990s and as the co-host of Today with Des and Mel in the early 2000s. 

In her book, Melanie wrote: 'The MasterChef experience continued to be an eye-opener, and some unprofessional behaviour on set was jaw-dropping.' 

In her recent YouTube video she said that 'every time Gregg came over to the desk, I didn't really like him being around really because it's all about vibrations and energy'.

At the end of filming the show, Melanie claimed she had a brief conversation with Gregg, which was a huge factor in her exit from television. 

It is not known who Melanie made an informal complaint about Gregg to.

On Saturday it was revealed that Gregg admitted 'defeat' and accepted his career is over in the wake of an investigation by a production company into his alleged sexual harassment and groping.

In October Gregg vehemently denied that he had made inappropriate sexual comments towards women, declaring that he would never 'flirt with' or 'hit on' another woman and: 'I didn't say anything sexual'. 

A source has now told MailOnline that Gregg has told friends that he 'accepts his TV career is basically at an end.'

They revealed that Gregg is being 'quite reflective and pragmatic' about the investigation and has concluded he has 'had a good run and done well for a bloke who was basically a greengrocer.'

Gregg set up his own fruit and vegetable business - earning himself the nickname 'Gregg the Veg' from friends - in 1989 and supplied restaurants including Quaglinos, where young Aussie chef John was working.

While this year's MasterChef Christmas specials have been pulled from the TV schedule there is also discussion that the BBC will be removing historic shows featuring him due to the nature of the complaints.

MailOnline have contacted the BBC for comment. Gregg's representatives refused to comment when approached by MailOnline.