Gregg Wallace: I've bloody heard it all now

As far as the autism claim is concerned, if is not true - and up to late 2024 GW said he had never been tested let alone diagnosed with autism - it is a despicable use of disability as a cover for offensive behaviour towards women.

If it is true, meaning he has been diagnosed in the past few months, how is that relevant to his former employers/the programme-makers? [I'm not sure about his employment status]?

How can he accuse them of failing to 'protect me from what I now realise was a dangerous environment for over twenty years' when even he didn't now he had autism? Were they supposed to mind-read, or look 20 years into the future to learn that he was going to be diagnosed in 2025, and make proper arrangements to 'protect' him - or protect his female colleagues from him, more likely?

Either way, it's not a great defence because it feels too much like the RVO part of DARVO - reverse victim and offender - and a cynical retrospective use of disability as an excuse for inexcusable behaviour.

I have misjudged him, I didn't realise the he's autistic, I just thought he was a wanker.

Gives new meaning to "bring your whole self to work".

It does say something about BBC culture that he got away with it for so long.

The only thing that surprises me is that they never thought of casting him as Doctor Who.

Never. And the day after never. Not even in the '70s

Victim blaming has not died I see. Edited to add that surely you know that when faced with a predator people won't react in a negative way for fear of escalation. And will then minimise because they feel bad that they didn't respond at the time. Which is how these cunts get away with it.

Well, it's what you've been waiting for. He's started a life coaching business. You can be just like him for £200 pm. So forget the slim jabs and divert your dosh to Greg.

Fuck off Greg. I'm bipolar and yet have never been a sexist cunt. My DH and adult DS are autistic and have never been sexist wankers or put a sock on their willies. How dare he. It's so pathetic to use a disability to excuse this behaviour.

You have agreed this was never acceptable behaviour then blame the victims for not reporting it!

2021
Former presenter Melanie Sykes made an informal complaint against Wallace after her time on MasterChef.

In a video posted in December 2024, she said: "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."

She also claimed she quit TV because of Wallace in her 2024 autobiography.

2022
In 2022, another woman alleged that he touched her bottom during a group hug in a lift in 2022.

2023
Wallace quit the BBC show Inside The Factory, which he had co-presented for a decade, after alleged inappropriate behaviour during a trip to a Nestle factory.

Helena Kennedy answered this very well on Newsnight - when was it ever acceptable to put your hand up a woman's skirt?

As other posters have said, 'historic' doesn't apply here. And it often doesn't when people talk about 'different times' before political correctness, or wokeness, made it all walking-on-eggshells-ish.

So GW started groping women and exposing himself 20 years ago - that was not 1756 or 1066 or 1953, it was the year 2000! 'Today's standards' were well and truly in effect in 2000, the modern women's movement was already decades old.

So if men got away with doing things to women that would have been equally obnoxious in 1900 or 2000, isn't it more reasonable to be angry that they weren't held to account sooner, rather than calling it a 'witch-hunt' when they are eventually called out on their behaviour towards women?

But I do think there is a culture of hunting down men on TV for behaviour that once was considered 'ok' (over flirtatious behaviour towards females guests/sexist 'banter' for example) and publicly witch-hunting them and judging them by today's standards.

Unfortunately I think Mr Wallace lost my sympathy when he tried to blame us uppity old bags "middle class women of a certain age" for making a fuss. He could have just said "look I was a twat and I apologise" and I'd have much more respect for him. The fact that he's now trying to blame it on autism is another level of pathetic.

It's not no.

But what happened at the time ? Was he reported immediately? Was it voiced very clearly that it wasn't funny and was unacceptable?

Or did people laugh and titter along and then tell a newspaper how shocked and distressed they were ? It's just rather underhand when people dont confront the person at the time and let them carry on thinking everyone finds it funny and are ok with the 'tone' and then several years later deciding they're a victim.

It doesn't make his behaviour acceptable. Definitely not. But I do think it can be a bandwagon type culture with these type of accusations of lewdness.

I think historically- and even recently in BBC (and other) cultures, it's not that people weren't aware the women were uncomfortable it's that they believed (correctly) that they'd get away with it. There have been some apologies that have been sincere in a "I genuinely thought everyone was laughing and I'm devastated I got it wrong" and maybe they don't deserve a witch hunt. But people who blame their victims or "middle class women of a certain age" or the lack of disability accommodations should be burned at the metaphorical stake.

When was it considered ok to get your privates out in the workplace....

Historic or recent is irrelevant , opening a door at work and shouting hooray with a sock on your penis is always going to land you in hot water.
Along with all the other incidents he was the centre of.

'Historic' might be doing a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to Mr Wallace though.

Some of the allegations are really not old at all.

I don't know the ins and outs of the accusations, I'll be honest.

But I do think there is a culture of hunting down men on TV for behaviour that once was considered 'ok' (over flirtatious behaviour towards females guests/sexist 'banter' for example) and publicly witch-hunting them and judging them by today's standards.

Today, we (thank god ) know better and women are treated far more equal and it's now socially unacceptable to paw at women on TV and treat them like some kind of pretty little dolly that's good for groping and treating like they have an IQ of 30.

But there is balance. I think when behaviour is historic we have to be careful about whether the public frenzy and blood thirstiness strikes the balance over the actual alleged 'crime'.

He's already done a pip style interview where he <shocker> talks very softly and quietly (who knew he had a volume button?) with tears etc

Like several pp have said hypersensitivity (and not liking/wanting to wear tight underwear) could be easily accommodated if he just kept his (other) clothes on

He will end up on Philip Schofield island

If only he'd eaten yoghurt he wouldn't have put a sock on his knob.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14890013/common-supplement-reverse-autism-ADHD-probiotic.html

Researchers discovered that taking a supplement for just 12 weeks significantly eased impulsive behavior in kids diagnosed with autism or ADHD.

Baroness Kennedy on Newsnight last night is definitely worth a watch on this topic. Especially the last minute or so of her interview.

So basically he's saying men need to be policed at work? He might be on to something. We could call it a 'workplace anti harassment policy' or something.