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.

Nestle banned him from their work site due to his inappropriate behaviour.
That was only last year.

Is it too late to pack him off to Schofields desert island?

Well I didn't see that coming

@crockofshite Only without cameras as it would just be an exact re-run of the PS episodes, not my fault, I did nothing wrong, everyone's so mean to poor me.

@RedToothBrush aah, I thought you were implying she’d have a problem on her own count. He’d probably just leave them all here and schedule a FaceTime into his busy diary.

It'd just replace the two minutes or whatever it was he was able to spare to spend with his son in person.

It's such a shame people didn't just say 'fuck off Greg', every time he attempted to make a sexual comment. He sounds tedious.

He'd a been slaughtered if he'd tried that where I work.

Exactly!

Kirsty Wark is bound by guidelines not to bring the bbc into disrepute by use of her own social media activity. Something that she would be well aware of. And given that there is an ongoing enquiry, it would be unhelpful to that enquiry for an employee or two to wade in and affect the impartiality that the bbc so strictly defines itself by. Unless...

Errr, what with the social media snark re KW?

AFAICS, Kirsty Wark was interviewed by BBC news after this letter:

It comes after BBC News sent a letter to Wallace’s representatives on Tuesday setting out allegations of inappropriate sexual comments by 13 people who worked with him across a range of shows over a 17-year period.

A couple of PP upthread asked if it was only “celebs” - from the BBC report, it doesn’t look like it:

BBC News has also heard from a former MasterChef worker who says he showed her topless pictures of himself and asked for massages, and a former worker on Channel 5's Gregg Wallace's Big Weekends, who says he was fascinated by the fact she dated women and asked for the logistics of how it worked.
Another female worker on MasterChef in 2019 says Wallace talked about his sex life; a female worker on the BBC Good Food Show in 2010 says Wallace stared at her chest; and a male worker on MasterChef in 2005-06 says Wallace regularly said sexually explicit things on set

(my bold)

No snark!

I'm questioning the inherent power of the media to manipulate a situation to deflect the BBC's own part.

Sure, if you say so.

Night 😘

I think this is actually the worse thing he has said out of everything. How dare he write off the opinions of a huge section of the population. It's ageist, sexist and classist. I'm surprised he didn't shortcut and use the word "Karen".

I realised he was a self-centred arse when I read the "day in the life of Gregg Wallace" piece a while back and now all this has come out. Awful man.

I seriously hope you don't have children with this attitude. If so god help them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wine.

I'm sure she knew exactly what she was getting

@QueenBitch666

MeatRaffleRita · Yesterday 22:03
I do feel sorry for his current wife. She must have a serious case of the ick by now.
Just run, run away and be free Anne-Marie!
I'm sure she knew exactly what she was getting

I'm sure she did. He's just so lovely:

Gregg Wallace and Anne-Marie tied the knot in 2016 after first interacting on Twitter, and now the couple share a four-year-old son, Sid. However it isn't just their family-of-three living at home, as they're joined by Anne's parents after Gregg suggested she needed the extra help to remain as his 'fun, sexy girlfriend' after becoming a mother.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/who-gregg-wallaces-wife-age-34207987

Clue number one: No one other than a desperate man (especially a person with a TV profile) would need to fish for a woman to marry ON TWITTER.

https://metro.co.uk/2017/03/30/gregg-wallace-reveals-that-he-met-his-wife-anne-marie-on-twitter-6542623/

Not ONCE but TWICE
Also met previous wife on Twitter:

"Like his current wife Anna, Wallace met his third wife, Heidi Brown, on X/Twitter in 2009. “The third one was a huge mistake,” the presenter later confessed of his marriage to the biology teacher, which lasted just 14 months. “Probably the unhappiest I have ever been in my life,” he reflected on the relationship, which ended in 2012 and was followed by a sea of brief romances with “beautiful women"

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gregg-wallace-wife-age-marriages-masterchef-b2656760.html

Clue number two: "after Gregg suggested she needed the extra help to remain as his 'fun, sexy girlfriend' after becoming a mother."

Clue number three: Gave a public interview stating for all the world - and his child to read when he gets older - that he didn't want another child.

"another child isn't something I'd have chosen at my age"
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1ajtri3/tell_me_mr_wallace_whats_your_perfect_saturday/#lightbox

Wallace previously shared how the agreement came about as he told the Daily Mail: “I said ‘Yes, I’m willing to have a baby with you, but a couple of provisos... I’m not willing to swap my fun, sexy girlfriend for an exhausted mum. We make enough money, I’d like you to get help in the house.’ Anna said ‘What about my mum?’ That was perfect."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/gregg-wallaces-unusual-comment-wife-34212289

What a stand up guy.

John Torode thinks he's a twat, even though he was best man at one of his weddings.

Suggests, pointed out one of the men on Another Talk Board, that there is something of a paucity of other male friends to ask

He's a 🔔end, is all.

My 18 year old daughter, and my son’s 19 year old GF, also think he’s a misogynistic, uneducated and ugly salad tosser. So sorry sweetie, pretty much every female with over an ounce of self respect and more than two brain cells thinks you’re revolting.

How many complaints have there been about his co-presenter? Has there been anything about a female presenter behaving like this? 13 complaints feels like there’s enough for it to be an issue. What about all the people who didn’t complain but just thought “what a prick”?

But the fact that he’s a misogynistic twat has been known for ages, yet again the BBC has just ignored it.

I feel insulted as I'm from a working class / council home back ground and I wouldn't have found him funny and been a bit intimidated by him tbh ( if I'd been on any of his shows )
He is implying that women are different because of class when that just sounds like a cop out or stirring up ' class wars' or something equally ridiculous. Lots of people agree with him though which is even more depressing

I think the danger is that a failing presenter that knows his career at the BBC is quite rightly finished has now stirred up a class war as portraying an aversion to innuendo and sexualized banter as the preserve of the upright middle class. I am old enough to remember carry on films and I think there was a theme that sexual banter was integral to working class humour. I really don't hope this gains traction as I think Greg intends it should.

I think Greg is trying to distract from the litany of complaints by starting a debate about humour (?) and how working class women have a baudier(?) earthier (?) sense of humour while for the middle class sex is to be emitted from humour to a large extent.

Greg look a like he is going to fall foul of his employer' a behaviour policies and of. I actually think it was a mistake to broadcast Greggs comments in headline BBC news as they have effectively given him a huge platform to start this distracrive and unnecessary debate allowing him in some spheres to enjoy victim status.

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