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.

Ha, he now apologises for those comments, saying he was “in a bad place at the time”. So being in a bad head space makes a man a raging misogynist. I didn’t know that 🤷‍♀️ Twat!

Tim Westwood
Dave Lee Travis
George Riley
John Peel

off the top of my head..

“ it can surely only be that they're bendable to government will which keeps them being funded by the taxpayer”

The government wanted Gregg Wallace et al to have jobs on TV?

It's funny because parliament and legislation is usually the reactionary thing compared to culture. Culture tends to go ahead and then the law catches up.

But sexual harassment in the workplace predates me too by decades and it's those who produce culture who seem to be amongst the worst offenders in recognising the actual law.

Russell Brand
Philip Schofield

No - the BBC wanted Wallace to have a job on the TV, and the BBC are bendable to government will because they're the ones who set the licence fee

And you're quite right, @toooldforbrat, I forgot those four

Hmm. I think there's a couple of posts here straying in libelous ground.

Oh god I've made a mess of this haven't I?
Though maybe forgetting some among the throng goes to show just how grim tthis is - as in if there were only three we'd all remember them only too well

I’m guessing his PR team may have had a taste of what he has apparently dished out over the years and clearly hate him if they’ve advised this type of response. To say he was in a bad head space because of these women of a certain age were saying displays a staggering lack of both insight and empathy for anyone who has been made to feel uncomfortable due to unpleasant sexualised comments. Gaslighting and narcissistic come to mind, total lack of accountability that is sadly commonplace still in this day and age.

The man who abused me was under stress in his marriage and at work. The Judge was not impressed with him trying to justify it.

Doubt it. That's what one keeps a wife for in Greg-land.

On the plus side I can watch Masterchef again, Never liked him. I’m not surprised by the allegations..he had 3 very short lived failed marriages so there was something iffy somewhere IMO .

Apparently GGreg has unfollowed John and Lisa's social media whilst he was having his little hissy fit and is upset neither has come out to say what a charming sexy victim he is.

Those stripped to the waist gym shots of this Adonis (not) with his soft sagging skin, drooping boobs - and specs 🤢
What a sad little man.

I'm aware this all sounds so playground but strange that they didn't unfollow him first, especially as we keep getting told from "sources" that they don't get on.

"charming sexy victim he is".
Careful, he doesn't understand irony or sarcasm apparently so if he sees this you could be lined up to be wife number 76, or whatever number he's up to now!

I expect he barrelled onto Insta without taking advice, and now he has, he’s backtracked.. a bit.

The BBC may not employ him, but they should still have oversight over their “products” if you ask me. Its not as if Masterchef is a minor show!

GW’s PR person has obviously advised him to shut up and told him that every word he says is making the situation worse and costing him money but imho it’s too late.

He had one chance to accept responsibility and he bogged it! This latest comment is really more of the same.

First he blames middle class, older women. And now he is blaming stress and feeling alone!

His tv career is over and unfortunately he’s not bright enough to see it.

The BBC may not employ him, but they should still have oversight over their “products” if you ask me. Its not as if Masterchef is a minor show!

It’s a tough one. Waitrose, for example, doesn’t have control over whether Yeo Valley fires or sidelines employees who sexually harass. I agree it’s a bit different but it’s not 100% different.

Very good point. As I said on one of the Gregg threads, seems to be a problem in broadcasting, the arts, fashion etc compared to business. Likely due to lack of employment rights due to freelance and competitive nature of the work. But also perhaps bad behaviour is brushed off as the personality of various creative types.

I wonder if GW partly wasn’t challenged because people were worried about being classist to him, when (as PPs have said) this hadn’t been tolerated in more working class workplaces for years, perhaps because they can sometimes be more heavily unionised. Interesting he initially suggested some sort of classism, before his more scripted apology today.

"I ad that Greggs Wallace in the back of my cab the other day..."

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There was a lady on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show today who said she encountered GW in Selfridges café The Brass Rail recently. He was ahead of her alone, and she was with her female friend and grandmother. There were two tables left. One with two seats and one with four. He took the table for four to himself and looked at them as they squeezed into the table for two. He then said "I'll give you my table if you pay for my lunch" She apparently thought he was joking, but he said he wasn't.

Nah - that is what the in-laws are for. Wife is for sexy time with Gregggggg!

(with apologies to those who are still eating)

seems to be a problem in broadcasting, the arts, fashion etc compared to business. Likely due to lack of employment rights due to freelance and competitive nature of the work. But also perhaps bad behaviour is brushed off as the personality of various creative types.

I am not sure that’s true. See Al Fayed, for example. Or Crispin Odey. It’s just that it draws more attention if the perpetrator is famous.

There are settlements and NDAs and quiet sackings every day of the week in business, but most of them don’t make the press.