Page 8 | Greg Wallace's Saturday routine

AhBiscuits · 2024-02-06T12:28:21+00:00

[[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/02/03/my-saturday-gregg-wallace-autistic-son-weight-loss-alcohol https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/02/03/my-saturday-gregg-wallace-autistic-son-weight-loss-alcohol/]] He's getting some stick / piss taking for this. The thing that struck me is he spends 1hr 30 with his son, who he also admits he didn't want, but hours in the gym, going out for breakfast, gaming etc. He's living the life of a single man but has a wife to do everything and have his lunch on the table by 12. If she posted on here the cry of LTB would be unanimous.

Blamethrower · 07/02/2024 18:42

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 07/02/2024 18:41

Looks like his publicity team has arrived in the thread ! Hope Harvester is treating you guys well

Free puddings!!

Merrymouse · 07/02/2024 18:56

Muddlingalongsomehow · 07/02/2024 17:56

There's so much wrong with people's take on this. I'm not a fan, don't watch his stuff, not my sort of thing.

But

He had permanent sole custody of his other two kids when they were tiny. Mother was an alcoholic. He's not a crap dad.

He stepped back from media work to be home more for the boy. He campaigns to raise awareness for autism funding. He's trying to create a new income stream for his family hence all the publicity for his projects here.

His in laws moved in with them when they got married, long before the baby. Father in law died just a few months ago, having been cared for with cancer in the extended family home. How lovely for mother in law not to be alone now. His wife has also been very ill. How was he supposed to work away and provide for them without live-in support for a special needs child?

He didn't say he didn't want this kid. He expressed ambivalence about being an older dad. Elsewhere he's talked of his guilt about the higher risk of autism with an older dad.

But most of all - these are not his words. They're a journalist's. It would have been "tell us what you like to do at the weekend" rearranged by them. They'd have chosen the focus. And it is one day of the week. What if he gets the boy brek and takes him to school all the other days, for example?

He might indeed be an arse to other people.. But that's not a reason to slaughter him based on this piddling superficial article.

I don’t know anything about him, so my opinion is only based on the article. (No idea why he inspires such strong emotions as I don’t watch his show). Although you have presented a lot of additional information, (despite not being a fan) you cannot assume that other people know anything beyond the fact that he is on Masterchef.

I know nothing of his mother in law’s circumstances apart from what is in the article, in which he says that his MIL was moved in to provide childcare.

To quote him “another child isn’t something that I would have chosen at my age.” If he was merely ambivalent, that was a poor choice of words.

Very few parents have that much ‘me time’ in a day, regardless of what they are doing for the rest of the week, and they certainly don’t if they have a disabled child. It’s odd that his son is absent from all parts of the day, except when apparently scheduled.

The information in the article was provided by Wallace, so if it isn’t correct he needs to have a word with his agent/lawyer.

MeinKraft · 07/02/2024 18:59

CheeseSandwichRiskAssessment · 07/02/2024 18:41

Looks like his publicity team has arrived in the thread ! Hope Harvester is treating you guys well

Ah I don't know, the breakfast at 10.30am and lunch at 12 is a dead giveaway that he's told a journo a few brief sentences about what he does on a Saturday and they've written up this article. Someone has clearly asked 'and how do you feel about being an older dad' and quite spitefully slotted in that comment.

Fizbosshoes · 07/02/2024 19:12

I'm aware that he might have had a chat with a journalist and the "timetable" might be slightly edited....but he does mention an hour of reading, 2 hrs of computer games, and going to the gym, so probably 4-5 hrs of "me time" which I'd say was pretty unusual for most parents, as well as a work breakfast.
Even if the 1.5 hrs with his son isn't scheduled in the way its written (it very likely isnt) the fact that he's listed all the other stuff without mentioning his wife and child suggests that actually he isn't spending a lot of time in the (largely non working) day with them

MeinKraft · 07/02/2024 19:17

Yeah he's definitely no Prince don't get me wrong.

This really made me laugh - for fans of Peep Show x.com/dobbyclub06/status/1755235051975966906?s=46

neighboursareselling · 07/02/2024 19:19

Muddlingalongsomehow · 07/02/2024 17:56

There's so much wrong with people's take on this. I'm not a fan, don't watch his stuff, not my sort of thing.

But

He had permanent sole custody of his other two kids when they were tiny. Mother was an alcoholic. He's not a crap dad.

He stepped back from media work to be home more for the boy. He campaigns to raise awareness for autism funding. He's trying to create a new income stream for his family hence all the publicity for his projects here.

His in laws moved in with them when they got married, long before the baby. Father in law died just a few months ago, having been cared for with cancer in the extended family home. How lovely for mother in law not to be alone now. His wife has also been very ill. How was he supposed to work away and provide for them without live-in support for a special needs child?

He didn't say he didn't want this kid. He expressed ambivalence about being an older dad. Elsewhere he's talked of his guilt about the higher risk of autism with an older dad.

But most of all - these are not his words. They're a journalist's. It would have been "tell us what you like to do at the weekend" rearranged by them. They'd have chosen the focus. And it is one day of the week. What if he gets the boy brek and takes him to school all the other days, for example?

He might indeed be an arse to other people.. But that's not a reason to slaughter him based on this piddling superficial article.

Fair point

Merrymouse · 07/02/2024 19:24

I would expect his day to start with ‘my 4 year old is non verbal autistic, and we have some early starts. We split mornings between me, my wife and my mother in law. If it’s my day to go to the gym I…’

and then I would expect it to end with ‘bedtimes are anyone’s guess, but we aim to finish the routine in an hour - it’s often more’

Of course he doesn’t have to share anything about his family, but then probably best to steer clear of this kind of feature, because in this article his son is a glaring absence.

Jeans123 · 07/02/2024 19:24

Every time he comes on TV I switch over

Gia79 · 07/02/2024 19:41

Oh, I thought he was alright (granted, I don’t watch MasterChef). But now I know he’s a massive knobhead - from this piece which was to promote him. 🙈 How unfortunate.

Sususudio · 07/02/2024 19:41

Hilarious own goal. He appears to meet all his wives on Twitter when they ask him about what goes with rhubarb!

Gia79 · 07/02/2024 19:41

Merrymouse · 07/02/2024 19:24

I would expect his day to start with ‘my 4 year old is non verbal autistic, and we have some early starts. We split mornings between me, my wife and my mother in law. If it’s my day to go to the gym I…’

and then I would expect it to end with ‘bedtimes are anyone’s guess, but we aim to finish the routine in an hour - it’s often more’

Of course he doesn’t have to share anything about his family, but then probably best to steer clear of this kind of feature, because in this article his son is a glaring absence.

Exactly! Can you imagine how his wife’s reads?!

Brainstorm23 · 07/02/2024 19:42

Here you go - https://archive.ph/TF2mY

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2024 20:13

He has always made my skin crawl! Jumped up bloody greengrocer! When Saturday Kitchen first started, he hosted it and basically came into any woman that was on there. He's revolting and this about him doesn't surprise me one bit!

Em1ly2023 · 07/02/2024 21:21

VoleChomper · 06/02/2024 13:29

He's an atrocious cunt and I have to leap to switch channels whenever I see his gurning face polluting my TV screen.

😅That Australian guy he worked with was also awful, Toad Torode, what a f*ing pair 🍐🍐

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2024 22:08

Fucking hell!!! Screaming with laughter here!!! Gold! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GellerYeller · 07/02/2024 22:10

I haven’t watched Masterchef since the Lloyd Grossman days, but didn’t Gregg offend some of the women making Kitkats when filming Inside The Factory? And have to be sternly spoken to?

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2024 22:11

CousinGreg55 · 07/02/2024 15:32

https://x.com/NoisyMV/status/1755112449445974215?s=20

Mrs Wallace's Saturday

That's hysterical!!! Thank you!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MoonWoman69 · 07/02/2024 22:13

Muddlingalongsomehow · 07/02/2024 17:56

There's so much wrong with people's take on this. I'm not a fan, don't watch his stuff, not my sort of thing.

But

He had permanent sole custody of his other two kids when they were tiny. Mother was an alcoholic. He's not a crap dad.

He stepped back from media work to be home more for the boy. He campaigns to raise awareness for autism funding. He's trying to create a new income stream for his family hence all the publicity for his projects here.

His in laws moved in with them when they got married, long before the baby. Father in law died just a few months ago, having been cared for with cancer in the extended family home. How lovely for mother in law not to be alone now. His wife has also been very ill. How was he supposed to work away and provide for them without live-in support for a special needs child?

He didn't say he didn't want this kid. He expressed ambivalence about being an older dad. Elsewhere he's talked of his guilt about the higher risk of autism with an older dad.

But most of all - these are not his words. They're a journalist's. It would have been "tell us what you like to do at the weekend" rearranged by them. They'd have chosen the focus. And it is one day of the week. What if he gets the boy brek and takes him to school all the other days, for example?

He might indeed be an arse to other people.. But that's not a reason to slaughter him based on this piddling superficial article.

Hello Lynn... 🤣🤣🤣

mynameiscalypso · 07/02/2024 22:13

I do find it bizarre that he still has his jobs on the BBC given how many stories there are, including from well respected figures in the industry, about him being racist or misogynistic.

Ilovecleaning · 07/02/2024 22:45

He’s an absolute nob. I’ve never been able to stand him. And his weird crooked face makes it worse.

Muddlingalongsomehow · 07/02/2024 22:46

If you mean my comment, you could just take issue with what I said. Though they are statements of facts, so I don't know how you would do that.

Do you people really believe everything you read in the papers? Really? You don't ever think something is twisted or reworded or put in a different context? The bottom line is that he didn't write this. It is not his own column. And if he protests now, all the baying mob will double down on him. Why do you want a world where merely something a journalist writes about a person is enough to bring social media down on him like this?

I used to be a government press officer long ago. One day a journalist from the Times got really pissy about something our dept published, and asked how much the study cost. I said "that is not something we hold here in the press office but I will find out and call you straight back. When is your deadline?"

I called him well before. No reply, no voicemail. I kept trying. Next day in the Times, a really negative piece. Including "A government spokesperson said: We don't know how much this cost". Putting the govt and the department in a terrible light. Ammunition for the Opposition. Questions at PMQs. I could have lost my job.

So nowadays social media unleashes this torrent of judgemental abuse. Possibly trashing his reputation, doing him damage, affecting his family income in the future. All for something we don't even know he said...

I am not his publicity team or anything. I'm an old bat, also a mother of an adult autistic daughter. But truly. Do we want a world where this can happen? It could be you next.

Ilovecleaning · 07/02/2024 22:46

Ilovecleaning · 07/02/2024 22:45

He’s an absolute nob. I’ve never been able to stand him. And his weird crooked face makes it worse.

PS - or is it ‘knob’ ?I never know 😊

Muddlingalongsomehow · 07/02/2024 22:49

And she has her own agency and choices. She's not been trafficked. How many other mothers/mils do loads and loads for their families? She's recently widowed. They moved in with the couple when they married. The father in law was cared for at home during his cancer.

martinisforeveryone · 07/02/2024 23:21

https://x.com/meemalee/status/1755222957889126635?s=61&t=mkUvbAXuwNv1LAvVpPjY1w

Scroll down in her replies to the clip of the late Sean Locke.

https://x.com/meemalee/status/1755222957889126635?s=61&t=mkUvbAXuwNv1LAvVpPjY1w

seafoamgreenhair · 07/02/2024 23:49

Ninety minutes on Saturday of regular focused quality time with his nonverbal autistic four year old son does not mean he spends zero time with him during the week - that is just a summation of his Saturday routine.

Ninety minutes is probably more than my cousin's husband has spent on his own with his nonverbal autistic son in the last 30 years.