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.

@TarantinoIsAMisogynist actually you couldn't be more wrong.

Remember that most of his worst comments will have been cut from the programmes broadcast. They certainly didn’t show the comment he apparently made to a female celebrity, who was squeamish about handling raw fish: “Watching you try to touch a fish is like watching a rapist do foreplay.”

Please stop defending wealthy powerful celebrities who only decide to help others when there's something in it for them.

This is just bullshit. Emma Kennedy, Aasmah Mir and Kirsty Wark (and these are only the ones we know about) complained at the time.

There is nothing NOTHING wrong with people who had experiences of him revealing them publicly. I don't think Kirsty Allsop is saying she would have complained - just that he is vile and disrespectful to his wife and made her feel uncomfortable and he was unprofessional. Most working women have had experiences like that - not so far over the line to want you to complain but obviously inappropriate.

I'd rather women felt able to reveal this information about rude and unprofessional publicly at any time for whatever reason than they thought they would get attacked by nasty people.

There’s nothing in it for Kirsty Allsopp as far as I can see. I’m no fan of hers but I can totally understand why she wouldn’t have reported it. I’d probably just think he was a creep and leave it at that. It’s not easy to make complaints against people no matter how wealthy you are. You might end up with a lawsuit on your hands for a start.

Why did you cut out the bit of my my post which said I blamed Kirsty Allsop specifically, then refer to several people I have no qualms with?

That's bullshit.

I'm not saying anything is right or wrong regards his behaviour or what women have said. I'm being serious that trial by media in the wake of his employer not dealing with allegations is a negligence of duty that is the issue here. He is FAR from the only person who has ever been inappropriate in a tv production setting. Go and watch The Franchise on sky. It's a comedy except it's all true and yes people do behave like this. It's not just the bbc.

A lawsuit huh

How inconvenient

Tata 👋to Greg wallace the perv.

There’s an assumption here that being famous and powerful makes it easy to make a complaint like this. Certainly it’s easier for the likes of Wark or Allsopp to make a complaint than it is for junior members of the production team but that doesn’t make it easy or mean that things will change when they do.

Women have also been programmed to brush this stuff off because it happens so often. So a single comment if you aren’t working with him long might net be worth the hassle. It does add strength to the claims of other women who have been harassed by him over a longer period of time.

Well I don’t know, that was a throwaway remark. You’ve clearly got it in for Kirsty, which is really odd given that a number of other high profile women have come out and said something.

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Why did you cut out the bit of my my post which said I blamed Kirsty Allsop specifically, then refer to several people I have no qualms with?

Because you made a generic comment "Please stop defending wealthy powerful CELEBRITIES who only decide to help others when there's something in it for them."

Celebrities plural. Not just Kirsty Allsop. I was responding to that.

I then addressed your bullshit about Kirsty Allsop in the second paragraph of my post.

Well then you know how hard it would be. Which makes your comments even more unreasonable

As someone pointed out above several Women who are significantly less powerful and wealthy than Kirsty managed to complain at the time without worrying about a lawsuit.

It seems to work that way at the BBC doesn't it? Jobs for the boys, etc.

😂

It wasn't generic. I said I was specifically referring to Kirsty Allsop.

But thanks for supporting my view by pointing out that the other Women managed to do the right thing and complain at the time.

Noticed from his pics on TV he has an MBE. Don’t they do any background checks before dishing out honours.

Anyone who has experienced sexual harassment has the right to complain about it whenever they choose to. Or not complain about it. The only person at fault is the perpetrator. Allsopp has done nothing wrong.

Assuming you are not Homer, you might want to look up the difference between 'dark' and 'blue'.

And then 'humour'.

But thanks for supporting my view by pointing out that the other Women managed to do the right thing and complain at the time.

This is just so awful 'do the right thing' and 'complain at the time' 🙄 There is just no hope really is there.

Being too scared/ concerned you won't be believed/ will be made out to be a liar or any other reason for not making a complaint at the time is NOT 'the wrong thing'. The wrong thing here - the only wrong thing - is unwanted sexually aggressive behaviour by a man in a power position.

Women are often stupid.

Sorry not buying it, I think she is significantly powerful and wealthy enough to not have been scared by Gregg and I think she only really cares about the publicity. This is generally what separates celebrities from the rest of us and I don't worship them for it.

Just because she's female celebrity, she doesn't automatically get a free pass for her behaviour from me.

And do so on the likes of the BBC, an ace man's club where they look after their own by looking the other way (at our expense).

Oh my god was that on MasterChef or Bake Off