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To want the tea on Gregg Wallace? 👀👀👀

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MumOfOneAllAlone · 28/11/2024 19:21

Apologies if there is already a thread on this?

See attached screenshots

Looks like people have really been waiting on his downfall 🤭🤭

(Obviously, I know it's a serious matter for those who've been victimised by the guy, not being dismissive of them)

Just seems like he's really pissed off his fellow celebs

To want the tea on Gregg Wallace? 👀👀👀
To want the tea on Gregg Wallace? 👀👀👀
To want the tea on Gregg Wallace? 👀👀👀
To want the tea on Gregg Wallace? 👀👀👀
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Clarefromwork · 29/11/2024 07:49

I always remember reading John Torode saying in an interview that they aren’t really friends outside of work (although John was Greggs best man!).

The article Gregg did about his daily routine was weird too wasn’t it?

Feels like a lot more stories are going to come out about this.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14137285/amp/Inside-Gregg-Wallace-tumultuous-friendship-john-torode-masterchef-allegations.html

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/11/2024 07:49

Walking into the studio wearing nothing but a sock over his willy.

If that is true, I am baffled that he wasn't immediately fired. Is there anyone here who could have done something like that and still had a job two minutes later?

Matformouse · 29/11/2024 07:53

He's always repulsed me. He's not even good at what he does. Who wants to watch a fat shouty bald man tasting food? He never had anything remotely educated to say about food.

It was obvious he hated women when I watched his 'Who do you think you are?'

How do these people last so long.

Snoopsnoggysnog · 29/11/2024 07:54

Combattingthemoaners · 29/11/2024 04:21

I have to turn the tele over when this wanker comes on the screen. Something about him always turned my stomach! I am thrilled at his downfall.

I have never been able to watch master chef and have never been able to put my finger on why and now I know.
i just cannot believe these men continue to be employed year after year despite everyone knowing they behave like this.

MonkeyTennis34 · 29/11/2024 08:03

Cocolapew · 28/11/2024 19:32

Rods not a fan

Love this.
Good for you Rod.

PickleC · 29/11/2024 08:17

Not a great start to the day. Opened the Metro and GW is standing there topless, like a pervert egg 😟

Wilfrida1 · 29/11/2024 08:18

I was eating my breakfast.
I have just looked up gregging.
pushes breakfast aside

BustingBaoBun · 29/11/2024 08:21

Snoopsnoggysnog · 29/11/2024 07:54

I have never been able to watch master chef and have never been able to put my finger on why and now I know.
i just cannot believe these men continue to be employed year after year despite everyone knowing they behave like this.

^^ this.

I just do not understand. In 2018 they had an investigation into him for inappropriate behaviour, why are the BBC so weak? Why did they renew his contract year after year?
There would be very many chefs or cooks, celebs or whatever... Who would do a better job than him, why did they stick with him when they knew how he behaved? The BBC do this so many times, just carry on with the same old celebrities who are past their sale by date, for some reason unknown to me

I always found it very sleazy that he met his last two wives on Twitter after they complimented him on something and he struck up an online conversation with them. Yuk.

I won't miss his gurning and slurping, hopefully we won't see him again

WhatterySquash · 29/11/2024 08:23

I have never been able to watch him on food shows because the way he puts food in his mouth winds me up so much! But I did read the day in the life thing and it was awful. He came across as a selfish narcissist but not only that, he’d presumably provided the answers and thought they were fine! (Unless it was done by a pissed off PA!)

What I am so fucking tired of with the BBC, and maybe society in general, is how misogyny, sexual jokes and sexual harassment or abuse (and to be fair it’s not just about women, it includes sexual harassment of men too by “talent” - and the Justin Welby situation springs to mind too) get a free pass and get brushed under the carpet for as long as possible. Then it leads to these shitshows where they finally get their marching orders and hundreds of people who tried to tell them and got ignored or fobbed off come out to tell their stories, and it becomes obvious everyone knew and nothing got done. Which of course means the BBC accumulates unsavoury and abusive men like flotsam because they don’t get the boot when they should. But why not? Why do they seem to want this to keep happening?

Itissunnysomewhere · 29/11/2024 08:26

WhatterySquash · 29/11/2024 08:23

I have never been able to watch him on food shows because the way he puts food in his mouth winds me up so much! But I did read the day in the life thing and it was awful. He came across as a selfish narcissist but not only that, he’d presumably provided the answers and thought they were fine! (Unless it was done by a pissed off PA!)

What I am so fucking tired of with the BBC, and maybe society in general, is how misogyny, sexual jokes and sexual harassment or abuse (and to be fair it’s not just about women, it includes sexual harassment of men too by “talent” - and the Justin Welby situation springs to mind too) get a free pass and get brushed under the carpet for as long as possible. Then it leads to these shitshows where they finally get their marching orders and hundreds of people who tried to tell them and got ignored or fobbed off come out to tell their stories, and it becomes obvious everyone knew and nothing got done. Which of course means the BBC accumulates unsavoury and abusive men like flotsam because they don’t get the boot when they should. But why not? Why do they seem to want this to keep happening?

Yes. I understand why victims can be nervous to come forward, but it sounds like this is such an open secret and that means it's an institutional problem still. And everyone who was part of keeping that secret needs to reflect

PuffinCliffs · 29/11/2024 08:28

MumOfOneAllAlone · 28/11/2024 21:57

😬😬 no girl, sorry. My dd is autistic so I'm careful about being understanding but a perv is a perv

Being autistic is gonna be weaponised by men in the next few years isnt it 😪

It already is. I know several autistic people who were so pleased when talking about autism was becoming more mainstream a few years ago, who have now gone back into their shell about it because of some autistic advocate behaviours and demands.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/11/2024 08:32

BBC News reports today that Wallace has thanked those who've contacted him to express their support. If there are any at all, they're vastly outnumbered by people delighted to see the back of him.

EvilRingahBitch · 29/11/2024 08:35

It wasn't even a secret. Popbitch were happy to go on the record to their 300,000 subscribers. His behaviour on Strictly was reported by him as an amusing story. Lots of what's now being reported happened in in full view on set with cameras rolling.

It's like John Barrowman always getting his knob out on set: everyone knew, nobody "covered it up" because nobody thought it needed covering up (pun not intended).

Lots of people were inwardly unhappy, but nobody stepped back and said out loud "actually this behaviour, though probably legal, is completely unacceptable in the workplace".

DottyBaguette · 29/11/2024 08:35

Isn't Rod Stewart a cheat? I may be wrong, but I don't think he's a good man either.

NetZeroZealot · 29/11/2024 08:41

Being a cheat isn’t as bad as being a misogynist.

VivienneDelacroix · 29/11/2024 08:47

Crinkle77 · 29/11/2024 07:23

They've just misspelled his name on BBC Breakfast. Greg not Gregg!

Edited

Brilliant!
He'll be fuming, as he watching himself on the TV when he's at the gym this morning.

oatmilk4breakfast · 29/11/2024 08:51

i only watch celebrity masterchef because i love watching professionals do incredible things but he's kind of ignored by the actual professionals on the show and I feel they keep him in his place a bit? but maybe he has freer rein on the other masterchef. yuck.

RedToothBrush · 29/11/2024 08:53

The BBC article on him this morning is wild:

Lesbian jokes
The woman, who we are calling Anna, said he was "fascinated" by the fact she dated women and asked her the "logistics" of how it worked.

Talking about spanking at work
Anna worked on Gregg Wallace's Big Weekends in 2019. She told us that Wallace regularly talked about sex, and about domination and spanking.

Comments about the age of his wife
'Georgina,' worked on the BBC's Eat Well For Less TV show with Wallace in 2019. She says he would constantly say inappropriate things to her, such as making comments that his wife was only two years older than her." It made me uncomfortable," she said. "What am I meant to say in response to that?"

Talking about how others would see her as his sexual partner
On another occasion, she says she had to go to Wallace's car to sort out his parking ticket for him. She asked him if that was OK, to which he allegedly responded: “You can come to my car, but can you handle the fact everyone will think you just got off with a celebrity?”

Numerous instances of his taking off clothes around colleagues. Oh and don't forget a coffee.
Both Georgina, and her colleague, who we're calling Lisa, also say he came out of a bathroom topless in front of them once during a shoot and asked them to take his coffee order.

The first, she said, was when they were travelling together by car. She said he took out his phone and showed her photos of a woman in her underwear.
Several similar comments elsewhere.

A female worker on MasterChef in 2019, who said Wallace talked about his sex life and asked her if her new boyfriend had a nice bottom

A female worker on the BBC Good Food Show in 2010, who said Wallace stared at her chest
Yeah I think there's a few images on social media where he's starring at boobs.

A female worker on Eat Well For Less in 2019, who said Wallace told her he wasn't wearing any boxer shorts under his jeans
His partner on strictly had issues with him going commando...

A male worker on MasterChef in 2005-06, who said Wallace regularly said sexually explicit things on set. He said Wallace once said a dish tasted like his aunt's vagina, and on another occasion, asked a female runner if she put her finger up her boyfriend's bottom
That'll be the guy who leaked to pop bitch then.

A male worker who worked on Big Weekends and other travel shows between 2019 and 2022, who says Wallace talked about threesomes with prostitutes and said he "loves spanking" multiple times a day
That backs up 'Anna's story above.

His straight face response?
In October he said that he would never 'flirt with' or 'hit on' another woman and saying: 'I didn't say anything sexual'.
Apart from the bits that were broadcast and those that were filmed and left on the editting table...

Even the way he describes how he met his wife.

Wallace's lawyers say it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature
Cos honestly all these people are total liars, there's definitely no evidence and he wasn't given a formal warning about his conduct in 2018.

How has this actually gone on for so long?!

RedToothBrush · 29/11/2024 08:55

EvilRingahBitch · 29/11/2024 08:35

It wasn't even a secret. Popbitch were happy to go on the record to their 300,000 subscribers. His behaviour on Strictly was reported by him as an amusing story. Lots of what's now being reported happened in in full view on set with cameras rolling.

It's like John Barrowman always getting his knob out on set: everyone knew, nobody "covered it up" because nobody thought it needed covering up (pun not intended).

Lots of people were inwardly unhappy, but nobody stepped back and said out loud "actually this behaviour, though probably legal, is completely unacceptable in the workplace".

Popbitch are shit hot on The Lawyering. A large number of the articles they right don't name the celebrity.

They did with Wallace.

That suggests that they felt very confident in the source or knew / had evidence of the content of the story.

Cluborange666 · 29/11/2024 08:56

sprigatito · 28/11/2024 21:47

FGS my entire family is on the spectrum. Not a single one of us has ever sexually harassed or assaulted anyone, nor do we struggle to tell right from wrong. Well-meaning or not (and I have my doubts).this sort of crude generalisation is corrosive.

Exactly. Autistic people are hypersensitive about doing the right thing and would never, ever engage in that type of cruel behaviour. It’s really offensive to say that this is because of GW’s autism. His behaviour is the opposite of normal autistic behaviour.

EmotionalSupportPotato · 29/11/2024 09:04

Cluborange666 · 29/11/2024 08:56

Exactly. Autistic people are hypersensitive about doing the right thing and would never, ever engage in that type of cruel behaviour. It’s really offensive to say that this is because of GW’s autism. His behaviour is the opposite of normal autistic behaviour.

You can't shove all people with autism in one homogeneous group either way. It's unrelated. It's two seperate things.

EmotionalSupportPotato · 29/11/2024 09:05

EmotionalSupportPotato · 29/11/2024 09:04

You can't shove all people with autism in one homogeneous group either way. It's unrelated. It's two seperate things.

In fact I'm not even sure why autism is even being dragged into this conversation. It's about Greg being sleazy.

NetZeroZealot · 29/11/2024 09:06

As far as we know GE isn’t autistic. His son is.

Joleyne · 29/11/2024 09:07

I read somewhere that he supplied the ingredients for the Masterchef programmes, so perhaps that's why he was also presenting. He may have made it a condition of his contract that he did both.

MovingCrib · 29/11/2024 09:16

EmotionalSupportPotato · 29/11/2024 09:04

You can't shove all people with autism in one homogeneous group either way. It's unrelated. It's two seperate things.

This exactly.