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Greg wallace

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Johnbrown · 20/11/2024 20:35

Why is he still on master chef?

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EmotionalSupportPotato · 28/11/2024 21:47

the80sweregreat · 28/11/2024 20:47

Why did Wallace think that anyone would want to see his bits in a sock ?
🧦

Better than not in a sock I guess?

EmotionalSupportPotato · 28/11/2024 21:48

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/11/2024 18:10

AND SHOUTS. Even though the person he is talking to is right next to him 🙄.

YES! WHY DOES HE DO THAT

the80sweregreat · 28/11/2024 21:49

Grot shouts because he thinks his IMPORTANT
Him and his grotty socks

ilovesooty · 28/11/2024 21:51

GrouchyKiwi · 28/11/2024 21:45

I miss Michel and his lovely twinkly eyes.

I miss Michel too.

CrowleyKitten · 28/11/2024 22:03

Michel Roux comes across as a really warm and kind person. Gregggggg. not so much.

Thevelvelletes · 28/11/2024 22:06

How stupid have you to be to fuck up that gig plus all the other BBC stuff that he does..the man's an idiot.

Forrressstloverr · 28/11/2024 22:33

I’ve met and chatted to Michel Roux. He came across as a really lovely man. No airs or graces, he was really friendly and down to earth.

Motnight · 28/11/2024 22:37

BestestBrownies · 28/11/2024 21:31

I was a contestant on MC about 15ish years ago, and despite being in my early 30's at the time, I still looked like a teenager (relevant - not a stealth brag). I was also the youngest female contestant that episode.

John greeted me like a normal human being, but Eggggg held my handshake for far too long in his clammy little trotter whilst simultaneously grinning and looking me up and down like a hairless hungry butcher's dog eyeing up a fresh steak. I was instantly creeped out and wary.

Filming took two insufferably long days. The whole time, Mastertwat was cracking lewd, dirty jokes that forced innumerable cuts and retakes. By the second day, even the people who had been nervously/politely laughing couldn't take it anymore. It was just Eggggg, guffawing into the void at his own hilarity. The crew's deep dislike for him was palpable.

Completely disillusioned and not wanting to spend a millisecond longer in his company proceed any further in the competition, I made a point of giving Egggg the Paddington hard stare and calling him Craig anytime I had to interact with or refer to him.

Long story short, I threatened to walk out on day #2 when he massively ramped up the sleaze factor, made a nasty 'joke' about the size of another female contestant's nose (which made her cry), and embarrassed us all by association in the professional kitchen, where the actual working Chefs all referred to him as 'That Cunt'.

This was the point where I was reminded that I had signed a contract that forced me to see out the filming of the episode, AND that there was a non-disclosure clause in there too. The BBC have known what he's like, covered for, and encouraged his disgusting 'laddish' behaviour for a VERY long time.

😧😧😧

CurlyhairedAssassin · 28/11/2024 22:41

Itsallsostressful · 28/11/2024 20:29

Didn't he tell his strictly partner Aliona he 'goes comando' 🤮 poor woman was very relived looking to be voted off.

To be fair i just watched that clip and it happened in rehearsals when his trousers ripped doing a certain dance move>

he had to move away from her and confessed that it was an akward situation because he wasnt wearing underwear

Allthebookszerofucks · 28/11/2024 22:47

There was an even worse one back in 2019, in OK magazine. It was the end of May (I only know this as I read it on holiday 😆) Top marks to anyone who can find it online, I've had a look but couldn't.
I can't remember it all, but he said that he chooses his wife's clothes, that he moved his parents in law in to do all the cooking/cleaning/childcare, that when his son was born he went straight out on an all day bender and spent thousands! He also wouldn't allow the baby to sleep in their bedroom because he wanted them to have 'together time', the grandparents had him in their room, and I'm sure he said that he didn't want his partner to breastfeed so she didn't 🤦‍♀️
It was so awful I couldn't believe what I was reading, I made my husband read it too! And ever since then he has made my skin crawl and I can't watch anything with him on it 🤢

EmotionalSupportPotato · 28/11/2024 22:48

Allthebookszerofucks · 28/11/2024 22:47

There was an even worse one back in 2019, in OK magazine. It was the end of May (I only know this as I read it on holiday 😆) Top marks to anyone who can find it online, I've had a look but couldn't.
I can't remember it all, but he said that he chooses his wife's clothes, that he moved his parents in law in to do all the cooking/cleaning/childcare, that when his son was born he went straight out on an all day bender and spent thousands! He also wouldn't allow the baby to sleep in their bedroom because he wanted them to have 'together time', the grandparents had him in their room, and I'm sure he said that he didn't want his partner to breastfeed so she didn't 🤦‍♀️
It was so awful I couldn't believe what I was reading, I made my husband read it too! And ever since then he has made my skin crawl and I can't watch anything with him on it 🤢

Blimey!!!!

Allthebookszerofucks · 28/11/2024 22:51

EmotionalSupportPotato · 28/11/2024 22:48

Blimey!!!!

I know! He's been quoted as saying that the newest article about his Saturday was done in jest, but it obviously wasn't as some of the things were in this OK article back in 2019 too (about her parents living there and helping out, and how he cooks 'once a week') so it definitely wasn't made up

Awful man 🤢

I also think he has other children that he doesn't see

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 28/11/2024 22:54

This just makes him sound really unprofessional in an environment where people are doing their best and trying to concentrate it must be incredibly annoying to have some buffoon "bantering" away in the background.

Lisa Faulkner has revealed Gregg Wallace repeatedly told rude jokes on MasterChef, admitting: "I’m probably not allowed to say this... Gregg just told rude joke after rude joke to the crew.

“You’re just sitting there and if you’re on the front bench just chopping away thinking, ‘I’ve got ten minutes left,’ and he’s saying, ‘So this girl walked into a bar…’

And I’m going, ‘Please I don’t want to hear this joke".

HellofromJohnCraven · 28/11/2024 23:00

Didn't Terry Wogan used to refer to him as the Celebrity Grocer?

NigelHarmansNewWife · 28/11/2024 23:19

HellofromJohnCraven · 28/11/2024 23:00

Didn't Terry Wogan used to refer to him as the Celebrity Grocer?

No, the costermonger.

Allthebookszerofucks · 28/11/2024 23:24

The way he spoons any form of dessert into his mouth with a groan and with his eyes rolling into the back of his head like he's about to come makes my vagina turn back in on itself 🤢🤢

PickAChew · 28/11/2024 23:32

CurlyhairedAssassin · 28/11/2024 22:41

To be fair i just watched that clip and it happened in rehearsals when his trousers ripped doing a certain dance move>

he had to move away from her and confessed that it was an akward situation because he wasnt wearing underwear

That just makes it worse. Surely some tighty whiteys would help to prevent chafing when you're dancing all day.

Whatsitallaboutanyway · 28/11/2024 23:33

That makes me sick that he just danced around without pants on…all sweaty

Twonewcats · 28/11/2024 23:59

BestestBrownies · 28/11/2024 21:31

I was a contestant on MC about 15ish years ago, and despite being in my early 30's at the time, I still looked like a teenager (relevant - not a stealth brag). I was also the youngest female contestant that episode.

John greeted me like a normal human being, but Eggggg held my handshake for far too long in his clammy little trotter whilst simultaneously grinning and looking me up and down like a hairless hungry butcher's dog eyeing up a fresh steak. I was instantly creeped out and wary.

Filming took two insufferably long days. The whole time, Mastertwat was cracking lewd, dirty jokes that forced innumerable cuts and retakes. By the second day, even the people who had been nervously/politely laughing couldn't take it anymore. It was just Eggggg, guffawing into the void at his own hilarity. The crew's deep dislike for him was palpable.

Completely disillusioned and not wanting to spend a millisecond longer in his company proceed any further in the competition, I made a point of giving Egggg the Paddington hard stare and calling him Craig anytime I had to interact with or refer to him.

Long story short, I threatened to walk out on day #2 when he massively ramped up the sleaze factor, made a nasty 'joke' about the size of another female contestant's nose (which made her cry), and embarrassed us all by association in the professional kitchen, where the actual working Chefs all referred to him as 'That Cunt'.

This was the point where I was reminded that I had signed a contract that forced me to see out the filming of the episode, AND that there was a non-disclosure clause in there too. The BBC have known what he's like, covered for, and encouraged his disgusting 'laddish' behaviour for a VERY long time.

Ouch. Hope you were OK and it didn't affect you too much.
Have you reported this to add to their list of evidence/complaints?

Also, how the hell does a nondisclosure clause protect someone from breaking the terms of their actual contract, ie misconduct etc? It's awful.

RedToothBrush · 29/11/2024 00:03

Just reading The Mirrors guide to his love live.

His first marriage lasted 6 weeks before she walked out on him.

He was with his second wife for 14 years. She divorced him after he was unfaithful. She died after a battle with alcholism. He said: " She was so ill and its so sad... I've had some pretty bad press and people get me wrong. They think I'm a Millwall football hooligan and a womaniser, but I'm not. I like reading history books with a glass of fine wine. And family. Like I say, I love family life."

His third marriage. She apparently once gave him her passport to reassure him that she wouldn't leave. She described him as a "difficult man" who was "quite needy" and "difficult to deal with". It lasted 14 months.

The four one. Shes 22 years years younger. He met by twitter 'when Anna quizzed the cookery expert about whether rhubarb went really well with duck after seeing him try a recipe on TV. He told Hello Magazine: "I just looked at Anna's photo and though 'Wow shes pretty'. So yes rhubarb which was considered an aphrodisiac in medieval times, bought us together".

I mean its pretty good going to have to have a track record that looks THAT healthy.

No wonder he gave so many viewers 'The Ick'.

RedToothBrush · 29/11/2024 00:09

PickAChew · 28/11/2024 23:32

That just makes it worse. Surely some tighty whiteys would help to prevent chafing when you're dancing all day.

Re Strictly via the Mail.

And he moaned: 'I love dancing, but if I were paired with somebody who liked me then I would have done better.'

Kazakhstan beauty Aliona, who left the show after the 2015 series, also hinted of her dissatisfaction with their partnership after she retweeted 62 Twitter comments from fans claiming she should have been given a better partner.

SIXTY TWO. She REAAAAALLYYYY didn't like him did she?!

DancingOctopus · 29/11/2024 02:22

@RedToothBrush

Has his second wife died? How sad.
I knew her a little bit and always felt she was dignified because the papers offered her lots of money to do an expose of him and she never did.
I remember her being very upset when he was in the papers with a much younger girlfriend. Unhelpfully, at the time I didn't have a TV and didn't know who he was!
The last I knew of her, she was moving to an island- perhaps the Isle of Wight ( I can't remember).I always hoped she'd find happiness there.

the80sweregreat · 29/11/2024 06:09

Iccky Wallace
Another one to add to the long list of sleazy men ( who worked for the bbc ,,)
So depressing

BlackJacktheDog · 29/11/2024 06:20

So another day, another instance of the BBC over paying a sleaze while helping cover up awful behaviour.

I used to defend the BBC but it's hard now to believe anything other than it being rotten right up to the top.