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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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PuffinCliffs · 29/11/2024 09:22

PinkArt · 28/11/2024 23:34

Reporters have been asking people in the industry for months now. And a lot women have stories. It's not just the odd joke that's landed badly, it's many years of completely inappropriate behaviour that's gone unpunished because everyone knows what would happen to the freelancer who complains about the talent.

It was mentioned on the news that he had previously been called in for a chat about this and left in no doubt how the BBC viewed this sort of thing. Which was presumably why he continued - because the BBC don’t care about women.

mysadoldarse · 29/11/2024 09:23

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.

Exactly. The Professionals show is great because Monica and Marcus are both fabulous chefs and incredibly lovely to the contestants, and of course the chefs that participate are great too. GW just seems like an unfortunate distraction that they have to put up with.

Disturbia81 · 29/11/2024 09:26

@Cluborange666 You can't shove autistic people all in one group. Just like you're saying they can't all be sleazy, well they aren't all good either. I've spent most of my life around 100s people with autism through work or my personal life and plenty are inappropriately sleazy, and quite a few are into even darker stuff. Basically a total variety of people like neurotypical.

itsywitsy · 29/11/2024 09:27

What a vile man!

RedToothBrush · 29/11/2024 09:28

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

John Torode would say that.

He's screwed.

He stood next to Wallace for so many of these incidents and never said a word or raised a complaint.

If you were ditching Wallace, you'd probably either can MasterChef completely or give it a make over which binned off Torode in the process.

BBC are unlikely to touch Torode again for some time.

Coolblur · 29/11/2024 09:28

CappuccinoChocolate · 28/11/2024 22:05

I always get irritated by his love for puddings. Just stupid schoolboy euphemisms and japes. It was over the last week I caught him saying something like 'I'd be right allover that' or similar and it just sounded so crass and old fashioned. I'm glad he's off our screens. He can fuck off, head first, into a bowl of blancmange...which I'm sure he'd love.

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He's not off our screens though. It was headline news on BBC news at 6 yesterday, 2 hours later Masterchef is on. They could at least have skipped a day or two or the rest of the series

EmotionalSupportPotato · 29/11/2024 09:34

Coolblur · 29/11/2024 09:28

He's not off our screens though. It was headline news on BBC news at 6 yesterday, 2 hours later Masterchef is on. They could at least have skipped a day or two or the rest of the series

he's hardly in the rest of the series. It would be grossly unfair to the contestants. I think they could put a warning on that it was filmed before the recent allegations but people aren't think they'll know that.

FamilyPhoto · 29/11/2024 09:35

I know someone who unfortunately had to speak to her on camera for the Factory program- he was a complete bellend.

BustingBaoBun · 29/11/2024 09:40

PuffinCliffs · 29/11/2024 09:22

It was mentioned on the news that he had previously been called in for a chat about this and left in no doubt how the BBC viewed this sort of thing. Which was presumably why he continued - because the BBC don’t care about women.

Yes, this was in 2018. Bit more than a chat I think,
Not that it made any difference, the Beeb just keep on these sort of people despite the rumours and chats.

BustingBaoBun · 29/11/2024 09:42

Yes John Torode stood by whilst it all went on. It wasn't one isolated incident, it was continual !

I have no idea why BBC stick with the same old same old presenters.

MumOfOneAllAlone · 29/11/2024 09:45

VivienneDelacroix · 29/11/2024 08:47

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

😄😄😄

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Coolblur · 29/11/2024 09:46

EmotionalSupportPotato · 29/11/2024 09:34

he's hardly in the rest of the series. It would be grossly unfair to the contestants. I think they could put a warning on that it was filmed before the recent allegations but people aren't think they'll know that.

I'm not a fan of Masterchef, a lot of which is because of dislike of the man in question, but I didn't mean to be disrespectful to the contestants or anyone else who works on the show. For the BBC to break a story like that about the presenter of a prime time programme, then broadcast that show the same evening seems in poor taste. I hope they heavily edit the rest of the series to remove Gregg's bits

MumOfOneAllAlone · 29/11/2024 09:48

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?!

This is quite a read 😳

The bbc is corrupt but I also think media is corrupt as well tbh

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HarrietBond · 29/11/2024 09:49

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?

And a certain section of society that will try to turn this on the people he treated badly and ask why they didn't complain at the time (they did and were ignored, or were aware that they would be ignored - at best - if they tried) or query what the point of acting now, years after the event is.

Surely most women, definitely over, say, 30, have worked with at least one man who made offensive comments/jokes and/or behaved badly and knew there was no point at all in trying to do anything about it, as it would be minimised and ignored, and the only person coming out of it badly would be them? I know I have.

MumOfOneAllAlone · 29/11/2024 09:50

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".

Im running to subscribe to pop bitch tbh

I can't believe that within a day I've got a completely different view of this man. He's not coming back from this, and thank God

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TonTonMacoute · 29/11/2024 09:54

Coolblur · 29/11/2024 09:28

He's not off our screens though. It was headline news on BBC news at 6 yesterday, 2 hours later Masterchef is on. They could at least have skipped a day or two or the rest of the series

I love Professional Masterchef. God it would be brilliant if they could edit him out of the rest of the series. Seeing him eating at some of the best restaurants in the world used to enrage me!

I believe he owns some of the rights to the programme and that's part of the reason why they couldn't drop him.

EdithBond · 29/11/2024 09:56

@RedToothBrush, indeed. Shocking allegations.

There are surely also questions about how he treated women in relationships. I’ve read some news reports about ex-partners, including statements from him, which are concerning.

HothouseFlower · 29/11/2024 10:02

HarrietBond · 29/11/2024 09:49

And a certain section of society that will try to turn this on the people he treated badly and ask why they didn't complain at the time (they did and were ignored, or were aware that they would be ignored - at best - if they tried) or query what the point of acting now, years after the event is.

Surely most women, definitely over, say, 30, have worked with at least one man who made offensive comments/jokes and/or behaved badly and knew there was no point at all in trying to do anything about it, as it would be minimised and ignored, and the only person coming out of it badly would be them? I know I have.

Yep, exactly. And it's bad enough trying to do this at office level. Throw in a so-called "celebrity" plus the huge weight of an institution like the BBC and you can see why many women don't pursue it, especially those on short-term/freelance contracts.

thestudio · 29/11/2024 10:03

As an aside - can we stop calling men like this 'sex pests'? This kind of behaviour is predatory and abusive - sex pest makes it sound like a cheeky chappy who went too far.

Even worse when people use it to describe men who pressure their partners into sex against their will by wearing them down with repeated attempts, grabbing their bodies etc.

HothouseFlower · 29/11/2024 10:05

Seeing him eating at some of the best restaurants in the world used to enrage me!

Oh gosh, I know exactly what you mean! Basically nothing constructive to say, just shovelling it all in for free!

HarrietBond · 29/11/2024 10:10

I’ve never seen anything that explains these sorts of situations that this sketch. (Warning, contains a creepy representation.)

WooleyMunky · 29/11/2024 10:22

Popbitch isn't just amusing celeb gossip, it has some really well researched bits on the wider media. See their National Enquirer series.

WhatterySquash · 29/11/2024 10:23

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".

Is it legal? Isn't it flashing? Or is that only a crime outdoors/in public? I think if I was working with a man who did that I'd see it as an offence worthy of being reported to the police. (Although I completely take the point that people very reasonably don't report it or complain at all, if they know they'll be ignored or made to suffer while the perpetrator won't.)

A work colleague literally showing you his penis against your will should be considered at least as bad as an unsolicited dick pic.

WhatterySquash · 29/11/2024 10:25

Harriet thanks, that video is great.

Dimpliy · 29/11/2024 10:31

Sounds like he's an avid Twitter user, I hope he's reading all the tweets about him.