Gregg Wallace responds with “A handful of comments from middle class women of a certain age”

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Just heard his comments on the news….unbelievable.

It also highlights ‘banter’ for what it frequently is: a cover for people to be sexist, racist and otherwise discriminatory and/or bullying, unkind, rude, mocking and insensitive.

Anyone who challenges or objects is told they can’t take a joke.

Yet, it devastates some people or for others chips away at them, causing cumulative harm.

It’s never a joke to make people feel uncomfortable and be unkind or insensitive. You don’t know what a person’s backstory is or what they might be going through right now. They shouldn’t have to tell you just so you’ll be sensitive, e.g. “Thanks for that Gregg, the man who raped me didn’t wear underpants either”.

Genuinely funny people (‘comedians’ or not) don’t need to be insensitive or inappropriate to make people laugh.

Oh, that's very good.

Me too! I'm almost 70 and grew up on the roughest council estate in Croydon, and I still think his behaviour was disgusting.

Behaviour like that would have been a disciplinary matter in every organisation I've worked for in the last 40 years, at least.

I'm "working-class-done-good", mid 30s and I still think he's an odious twerp. So his wife can tell him the hatred knows no age limits or class boundaries.

That will have stung 😆

Seven million isn't the only difference between him and most people in that workplace, the overwhelming majority of them won't have been bankrupt leaving creditors hundreds of thousands out of pocket, let alone doing that more than once.

Thanks - just seen the video on his Instagram stories. It’s every bit as bad as has been reported! How stupid is he?! 🫣

Same. I’m similar age to GW and working class. His alleged and published behaviour hasn’t been OK for decades, if ever, especially not at work.

@expandabandband if Google is to be believed HFW has a thing for hair of any colour (allegedly)

This. The world has moved on. The BBC need to learn they cannot brush this kind of behaviour under the carpet any longer. It's as if they've learnt nothing from previous scandals.

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The only difference between us is seven million…

…quid I still owe my creditors?
…sleazy comments I’ve made?
…people think I’m a misogynistic arsehole?

I can't believe these celebs don't have either an agent or a BBC bod who takes control of these situations for situation management, and then the first thing they shout at them is 'don't say anything!' Or perhaps he did have one, as his first statement was 'I'm co-operating with the investigation' and now he's gone rogue. That's probably the problem in the first place.

Imagine if he and his wife are ever out in public "I am so sorry about that" (embarrassed wife).

WTF did she ever see in him?????

Stupid vile man! He’s digging his own future with a massive JCB. 😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Agree. He may have challenged GW and/or complained, many times for all we know.

But, what’s unfathomable is why he carried on working with him for so long if the behaviour carried on. It appears complicit.

That is really excellent 😃

I missed this when it was posted. Wins the internet for today I think 😂

Love Emma Kennedy's comment:

Responding to Wallace’s video, actress Emma Kennedy who won Celebrity MasterChef in 2012 and says she complained about his behaviour at the time, said "it doesn’t matter what the age of any woman is".
"If you behave inappropriately, you behave inappropriately," she told BBC News. "It’s a story as old as the tides that people who have been accused of inappropriate behaviour turn the tables on those pointing it out and try and change the narrative."
She added: "Playing the 'they’re having a go at me because I’m working class' card is ridiculous."

I am going to say what I said on the other thread - the likes of Kirsty Wark are quite capable of telling him to shut up and not make stupid sexualised comments. Hopefully in future they will, and hopefully production companies will grow a pair too and tell their "talent" when they are being berks.

Ggoodness Ggracious me, what a Gghastly, arroggant misoggynist.

Wouldn't surprise me. Last night's Saturday Five show had all the usual "it's only banter" and "his life is ruined" bollocks. But then Darren Grimes is partial to a bit of sexual harassment in the workplace himself.

Yes GgregG will fit right in on GB News.

But this wasn't the case for Masterchef - Gregg couldn't have destroyed any careers. The celebs already have a career, the amateurs are in a competition, the professionals are professionals and professional chefs thinking about giving them a job aren't going to pay attention to Gregg - in fact they probably know only too well what he is like.

So there was no excuse for women not to complain and if they did complain, no excuse for something to be done about it.

As for middle class women of a certain age - well, that's because we have zero f's to give and have, in many cases, got over the people pleasing stage (though I don't think I ever had one).

It’s very much the case behind the scenes with freelancers having to put up with inappropriate behaviour from ‘celebrities’.

I think it’s a case of reading the room. Of course there are women who will join in with this sort of banter, and respond in like with sexual innuendos. I’ve worked with women who do make sexual references. Not my kind of people, but they exist. But in Wallace’s case, it seems he’s not good at reading his audience, and now must face the consequences.

It used to irk me every. fucking. time Steve Wright pointed out the no g for serious jockin. I'm now rethinking my stance.

re Wallace.