Gregg Wallace: I've bloody heard it all now

It seem there is indeed....

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14905743/BBC-John-Torode-resign-blame-mental-health-racism.html

John Torode was asked to resign from MasterChef by the BBC and blame mental health after he was accused of misconduct, it has been claimed.
Gregg Wallace's co-presenter last night said an allegation of using racist language had been upheld against him - but he denied all wrongdoing.

It has now emerged Mr Torode reportedly refused to quit when urged to stand down over the weekend.

A source told The Sun the MasterChef star, 59, was asked by the BBC and production company Banijay to pretend he had mental health issues.

Oh dear. This doesn't end well for the BBC.

Yup.

Whereas Autistic working class women who didn't go to Oxford like myself (and many others) still manage to not be creepy pervs.

Some men are just utterly despicable entitled arseholes.

Is there some sort of excuse guide book, didn't Huw Edwards use not going to Oxford university as some kind of mitigating circumstance...?

I'm a working-class lesbian, but I've never felt the urge to put my hands on another woman without explicit, indeed enthusiastic, consent, or verbally harass her, or indecently expose myself in front of her. (Not even in a Ladies' toilet, despite what a lot of trans activists seem to think..).

Still blaming autism and the BBC, but also being a working-class man now:

“None of the serious allegations against me were upheld. I challenged the remaining issue of unwanted touching but have had to accept a difference in perception, and I am deeply sorry for any distress caused. It was never intended.”....
“This has been brutal. For a working-class man with a direct manner, modern broadcasting has become a dangerous place. I was the headline this time. But I won’t be the last.”
“There will be more casualties if the BBC continues down this path, where protecting its legacy matters more than protecting people. For my part, with full legal support, I will consider my next move.”

The production company behind the show was found to have provided little or no formal training or clear escalation procedures to manage complaints prior to 2016, with incidents often handled informally and on a case-by-case basis.

The BBC was also found to lack any centrally held information at the time.

Hmm. It's one thing for small production companies to have inadequate processes, but they're contracted by the BBC. This would imply that the BBC, well after Savile, was taking an approach of "nothing to do with us guv" if the show was externally produced.

See also the stories that have come out about Doctor Who.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/19bbc200-9a4d-4344-80b4-9fab99049b82?shareToken=eabcb5ac192dde2b53b24643fc6602ee

No doubt the People's Predator will be along any minute to claim that being found guilty in only about half of the cases means he's practically innocent. The thing that annoyed me about the BBC report/investigation was the bit where they went along with his vicious autism "defence" - "the findings should be viewed in the context of his neurodiversity". Some characteristics are clearly more protected than others at good old Auntie Lydia.

Just seen the news - 45 accusations against GW have been upheld = more than half of the accusations.

Did she use "my struggle" in that article on purpose?

The BBC, with remarkable openness, break down what this means when they've got a whole series in the can with a disgraced presenter:

Gregg Wallace: BBC faces dilemma over new series of MasterChef - BBC News

'both of us able to appreciate those simple, natural pleasures – the wind on your face, the hand on your arse..'
Brilliant piece of sustained satire, Marina Hyde😂

Interesting that he apparently received formal warnings in both 2018 and 2019 and didn't learn from it. If that was down to his alleged autism, and he didn't bother to have any investigations done or to get any advice, why does he think his employers have done it all for him? He can't claim that his autism deprived him of the power of rational thought, otherwise he couldn't have done the job at all.

People's Central Gusset Department
LOl - I am missing the laugh reaction!

"He was warned but didn't listen"

That might be my epitaph living with 2 ADHD males!

Rather convenient this diagnosis. I wonder how much that cost.

As for why women didn’t report it, well it’s the imbalance of power. If you are a young researcher just starting out you are not going to have the confidence to tell anyone straight away. I bet he managed to keep his cock inside those nasty pants of his while he was in important meetings with producers or in the company of men.

The usual stance is to say they're very sorry that they had to face any consequences for their actions and sincerely regret any hurt or offence caused, and for that reason they were told to leave are stepping down from <insert position>

I mean it's all scripted bs and probably most men are only sorry they got called out over the behaviour (or their wife left etc) ....but it's seen as the appropriate/borderline acceptable response. Surely some of his pr team (if he has one) have suggested that approach....?

He's said he won't go quietly.....which I suppose shouldn't be a surprise given he doesn't appear to do anything quietly!

Just another example of a fully grown adult refusing to take responsibility for his actions. Laying the blame at the door of his employer, his disability and anything/anyone else he can try to justify, just shows the man that he is. Twat.

Tell that to someone who has been assaulted, groped, raped, etc. Just because it was years ago doesn't mean it doesn't still hurt.

Who are these men? The man who abused me as a child said he was under stress with work and a bad marriage. That's all right then. Twat.

I don't know much about autism, but clearly he's taking bollocks, but I'm sorry to all those who are upset and hurt by his comments and attempt at justification.

I don't know if Gregg knows this, but there's a diversity of designs of men's underwear these days. If he would prefer something loose fitting, they have that in the big Asda up the road.

We're not living in the Soviet Union with a People's Central Gusset Department making sure everyone gets their underwear in the same style.

Imagine what it was like in the 80s but then again, I don’t recall anyone with no underwear 🤔

Well written Marina. Unfortunately GW won’t see it for what it is, to him it will just be another middle class middle aged woman piling *on to him.

*[“I should be so lucky” GW]

That is fucking brilliant. He will be seething if he reads that. No doubt he will think she's just another middle class - insert misogynistic slur here - who should STFU.

Hopefully he just shuts up and fucks off now.