Sex slimeball Gregg Wallace sacked now blaming his “disability” for his behaviour

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Just read that GW has been sacked from Masterchef and that 50 more reports of his disgusting perving have been received.
He has clearly learnt nothing after the backlash following his previous social media rant about “ middle class women of a certain age” and now claims his newly diagnosed “disability” of autism made him do it.
He even tries to make himself the victim as apparently he wasn’t protected.
As someone with autism myself his attempt to use this as a defence makes me want to shove his buttery biscuit base where the sun doesn’t shine.
AIBU to think he is toast and good riddance?

I have zero sympathy for the narcissistic, sexist wanker. A cheap parting shot playing on autism, as well.

It's amazing the number of men who have previously undiagnosed autism/adhd when the shit hits the fan.

It's not a get out of jail free card, mate.

Im not surprised and most of this site shouldnt be either given that it gets trotted out all the time to excuse bad behaviour.

So why not excuse his then?

As someone with autism myself his attempt to use this as a defence makes me want to shove his buttery biscuit base where the sun doesn’t shine.

Perfect.

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He is a slimeball isn't he? Feel sorry for ME, it's not my fault. Infuriating. He is a man with issues. So are many others. Address them yourself, GregG, like eveyone else has to do.and STOP BLOODY SHOUTING.

just because he is autistic does not excuse his behaviour. His repeated poor behaviour. He still has to own his behaviour. No one made him do it.

the question I have is, surely the Tv folks knew how poor is behaviour was and actually had a duty to protect women much earlier than they did?
did they even try?

He seems to be blaming the bbc for not protecting him from his own behaviour due to a disability they didn't know he had.

Did anyone else know exactly what condition he was going to claim even before they opened the thread?

That is actually a point. It’s suggested constantly here, nobody can ever accept that some people are just bad bastards.

When he trotted his first line of defence out about middle aged women and that went down (rightly) like a sack of shit, I said to DH, he'll be claiming some form of disability or mental health problem that makes him unaware of his actions next. I'm surprised it's taken him this long really!

Yes and its worse than that. No one it seems to accept that you can have a disability or MH condition or any other thing but ALSO be a complete arsehole

That people with autism or ADHD or whatever can act badly in addition to being ND, not necessarily because of, or in conjunction with their ND.

I see it on here all the time, people with ASD 'cant lie', people with ASD 'follow the rules' etc etc.

Oh really, every person with ND is a carbon copy of each other are they?

He completely lost me when he said middle class women of a certain age, wanker!

I own one of the middle class woman of a certain age t shirts, DP bought it for me!

Hope you’ve already shown your DH that your prediction came true!

I suspect some #bekind platitudes will be on the way soon, with a few casual references to Caroline Flack chucked in to make us reconsider any disdain we might hold for Wallace, just in case.

Yes I did because I know he has an autistic son. Whether that makes it more likely to be true or just easier for him to fake I don’t know. No excuse for being a bellend either way

Agree completely. I think people think that if you dare suggest that someone with ASD or mental health issues is acting like a prick, you’re being ableist and don’t understand their struggle. You’ll get 18 mothers of teenagers with the conditions coming for you, guaranteed. Because any negative traits they have must be down to their condition, and therefore is not their fault. Absolutely not the case.

I’m NT, but I imagine people who are ND must get pissed off at the generalisations. Particularly in the cases where someone posts that their husband has cheated for the 8th time, gambled the household income away and beaten their toddler up. You’ll always get a “OP, could he have ADHD as this sounds a lot like my brother”. I’d be annoyed that people see terrible behaviour and immediately associate it with a condition I had.

Yes, it was very clear and I am autistic. Autism is not an excuse for bad behaviour. Yes you may experience the world differently and struggle with social cues. It is not an excuse to behave badly. It infuriates me, as it means that all autistic individuals are tarred with the same brush.

He's at work and I've just caught up with the story although I can't be gloaty about it as he agreed with me. GW is an absolute disgrace and he's doing the ND community a huge disservice now. He ought to be ashamed of himself.
For once, I'd really like one of these slime balls to hold their hands up publicly, apologies profusely and reap what they've sewn with remorse instead of scrambling for any excuse they can.
Obviously in an ideal world it wouldn't happen at all but sadly I think we're never going to make that a reality with the amount of insidious predators knocking around

When he said he was employed as a greengrocer persona (can’t find what I read earlier to quote directly), I was even annoyed at that because it felt like he was saying he wasn’t as clever because he’s just a greengrocer. My Grandfather worked as a greengrocer but he knew not to sexually harass people, doesn’t take media training to not be a pervert. He’s also dragging other
autistic people down by suggesting they don’t know better.

Fuck me! If I hear that autism is the excuse for shitty behaviour yet again, I think im going to set the world alight!!!

AUTISM IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR BEING A CUNT!!

Ugh, I'm so sick of this.

See also, Wynne whatever his name is claiming mental health issues somehow absolve him from being a bit of a sleazeball.

Yuck

As if by magic, on the thread from a woman whose husband won’t let her do the food shop, someone thinks he’s controlling her (to the point where she can’t buy the kids some strawberries) because of autism. Give me fucking strength.

I remember when the allegations were first raised he insisted he didn't have autism.... funny how now he's definitely got it 😧