To want the tea on Gregg Wallace? 👀👀👀

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Apologies if there is already a thread on this?

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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

Sad thing is nobody in the industry seems to learn. Seems like Ant and Dec are making comments to female members of their production team on some sort of live instagram channel. Telling them they’re fit, asking if they’re virgins, etc on the live stream

Someone has contacted the production company who say the staff don’t mind and it’s just banter. The power difference and the need for these women to keep their job doesn’t seem to be considered.

Oh yes, we can't take a joke, so it's us.
I'm only surprised he didn't call us Karens.

I’m convinced they’re in different rooms in this discussions! They’re always filmed separately. Not that they’re shouting at each as a result of course!

I dont understsnd why women higher up on the team didnt speak up, surely executive producer types wouldn't be afraid of losing their jobs?

Re: why now.

I think this got lost in all the comments. But the BBC has said this has been the result of 'historical' incidents (rather than something recent).

I note that the noise around Wallace started in Oct. Which coincidentally is the exact same time as this:

In October, the BBC announced a review of its workplace culture, focusing on “preventing abuse of power and ensuring everyone at the BBC conducts themselves in line with our values”.

Now this was partly a result of Jermaine Jenas being dropped in August and the controversy around that.

So my suspicion is following Jenas, someone has reminded the BBC that Wallace is a disaster zone, the BBC having opened themselves up to a workplace culture issue did indeed finally look into it and found the dog chewed complaints hidden away in a broom cupboard (sic) and gone "Hmm yeah this is something of a problem here isn't it?".

But obviously it's an issue with the numerous 'women of a certain age who don't like being treated in a certain way' rather than with the single man who freely admits to wanting his mother in law to be his skivvy so he can get his rocks off with his trophy wife and doesn't actually bother to look after his own child for more than an hour and a half, has had two marriages last an unusually short time AND had a wife who sounds like she had a 'very sad life' after she met him. It couldn't possibly be the problem is the single common denominator.

Historical being the complaints that have been being ignored for two decades, as they flowed steadily in, rather that historical because someone only just decided to object several years later.

BBC workplace sounds utterly toxic. I know a couple of people who have worked for them and they have some stories.

Kirsty Wark is a particularly interesting person in this. By the time she appeared on the show in 2011 she was well respected and well placed.

My feeling is also that women who work in the industry are almost conditioned and groomed to accept unacceptable behaviour as normal because of the culture and don't question whether they have a right to complain. It's a put up and shut up mentality.

A friend of mine who worked for them in a non-arts contracting role left after a very short time and told me she’d never seen such open bullying in the workplace before.

Trouble is, it's not just the BBC/broadcasting.
I heard the bishop of Newcastle on the radio this morning. She is the one bishop who declared that archbishop Justin Welby should resign. Apparently she is now being "frozen out" by her colleagues. Yup, it's all HER fault that he did not do his job.
The predators are enabled and colluded with. The complainants are ignored for as long as possible and the whistle blowers are blamed.

There are far, far too many answers to the ‘why don’t women just complain?’ question, aren’t there?

Wallace and people asking things like ‘why wasn’t it reported at the time?’ are victim blaming. This is why a lot of women and girls don’t report abuse and assault, it is often minimised and twisted to portray it as being their fault or not true. I’m really worried about how many more of these men are getting away with this at the BBC?

@DanielaDressen What? Ant & Dec! Where does it say that?

Surely now there's no way back for him.
That response has to be the final nail in his coffin.

I reckon he’s got a whole new career now though. Depressingly.

He’s insinuating that menopausal women are behaving irrationally. And there’s probably some class prejudice too.

what a vile man.

I’d guess that most of the supportive comments for him on social media are from
men.
As for William Sitwell, defending the indefensible … I hope he gets pulled up on that too.

I've just seen Greg Wallace's video statement on BBC's "Sunday" and I am both enraged and amused by his "handful of middle class women of a certain age" jibe.

What is that supposed to achieve ffs? Is he implying that middle-class, middle aged women are making it up, or that their opinions are less valid than working class or young women?

The man's a fucking idiot, and a predatory one at that.

And he's clearly directing some of his ire close to home . Lisa Faulkner is 52 for a start

The remember the exact moment I know I probably didn't really want to pursue a career in media.

It was when I saw 27 out of 29 young women in a university seminar turn around and say said yes to a question about whether they would 'use their sexuality to further their career'. I was number 29. Number 28 Ive long since lost touch with. The last I heard was she'd got a job working for a household name who treated her like absolute shit.

It really shocked me and disappointed me. And it doesn't surprise me to learn that there's therefore been a tolerance for unacceptable behaviour that there isn't in other work places.

These women would be in their mid to late 40s now, possibly with daughters and are beginning to how they were treated wasn't empowerment at all.

I recall Aliona looking unhappy
It's not the first time he had complained about his time on the competition, either. Speaking to OK! magazine in 2021, the presenter claimed the only time he enjoyed the show was the last day on the final. He said at the time: "I love dancing, but if I were paired with somebody who liked me then I would have done better."

It's not just "why don't the women complain" though (I totally understand that)

It's "why don't all the people who witnessed it complain?". Many of them men, some it positions of power.

It takes a lot of people staying quiet to let someone behave like this for so long

and he didnt wear underwear on strictly
how grim

When did it change from "spill the beans" to tea????😧

Gregg Wallace leaves Strictly partner 'distressed' after underwear remark | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV | Express.co.uk

I had a swim coach who constantly tried things on with the girls in the team. I absolutely feel that his colleague who watched all his behaviour and did nothing was basically just as culpable.

If Torode knew all of this and continued to work on the show then he has questions to answer too.