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?

Isn’t it odd how few women, with either diagnosed MH issues or clear neurodivergence, have strings of sexual assault accusations following them round? 🤔

Well.it can be a reason as some people are so severely impacted they don't have the capacity to.understand how their actions impacts other ,s
however this isn't the case here GW clearly has capacity.

I have never, ever understood his success

YANBU

I am autistic and know many other people who are too.
The very few I know who have got into trouble due to their behaviour never blame their autism as to them it is just their normal. They have lacked the capacity to understand what they were doing is wrong.
He is showing a level of insight and therefore control. He has the capacity to understand.
He is making excuses.

His claim that autism explains his disgusting behaviour is an insult to all autistic people. His behaviour is reprehensible and his attempts to justify it are too.

The only newsworthy thing about it, it why tf did it take so long? Some of the allegations went back to 2008 iirc and plenty were reported, over a substantial period of time.

I can't remember how I came across it but there is a pip schofield style video interview where he talks really quietly (who knew he had a volume control?) And there are tears etc, it's almost exactly the same making himself the victim in it all

Autism does not excuse his behaviour. Apologies, hit the YABU button by accident!

He seems to be under the impression that autism is his get out of jail free card. I've just checked the DSM5 for the assessment criteria for autism and being a sleazy old perve is not on there.
He also has the front to complain the BBC did nothing to 'investigate my disability or protect me from what I now realise was a dangerous environment for over twenty years'. Since when was it an employers responsibility to assess an employee for autism?

Yes that partially true for individuals who may also have learning difficulties in addition to Autism and some autistic individuals. However, in Greg Wallace case it is an excuse for appalling behaviour. Which in popular opinion and grey literature tars all autistic individuals with the same brush.

I am so embarrassed for him.

Why oh why don’t men take responsibility for their behaviour.

A genuine apology with signs of real self reflection would have helped enormously. Not solved the issue, but helped. But no, he doubles down.

Unbelievable.

Base. How low can he go?

I don't know how his wife can bear to be married to him.

His young son has autism. GW should know better!

Its not necessarily LD that causes a lack of understanding or empathy or connection between actions words and impact.

A social communication processing disorder is just that, the person wont understand/cant understand what they have done wrong. They think they are right, they can only see their own perspective, they cant connect with the impact its had on others, they cant see their own part in the consequences of what they have done. They may struggle to understand themselves.

Greg is an idiot of course. In addition to the above.

I wouldn’t put anything past him, he’s obnoxious, but given he has a child who’s autistic I think the chance of him being diagnosed was always going to be high.

He’s onto being a wellness coach now….

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLeOXmRo8FU/?igsh=MXZhaHJwcnQ3NXZodg==

Meant to add… coaching people of a certain age no less!

Came here to say this.

If his wife had started a thread about his behaviour and asking for help I would say within 5 posts you'd have someone asking 'Hmmm... Could he be neurodivergent?' 😂

Really mad that he has cited his autism as the excuse. The more people that do this, the more people will hear/read ‘autism’ in a student or job application and give the candidate a swerve. Both my kids are on the spectrum. Both agonise over inadvertently offending or distressing someone. Neither would intentionally, repeatedly behave as he has done.

Yeah I watch true crime and I see it’s trotted out a fair bit as a defence of killer males.

I’m really glad that this is an anonymous forum because my view might get me “cancelled”.
I grew up in the 70s and never felt completely ‘accepted’ and I know my mother said that she sent me to boarding school because I was ‘unwieldy’ and argumentative.
In the end, largely through working it all out for myself, which basically translates into ‘adapting to society’ and actually deciding how I fit in, and who likes me, I have become who I am today, which is a mother, NHS employee and an invested member of society.
I might have ND traits, I might not. I don’t care. I don’t think labels help people, I think they can be used to excuse poor decisions and behaviour. Thinking back to the 70s and 80s, when social media didn’t exist, we all got on with it. I think there a middle ground to be found. We’re not there yet because of all the screeching, much of which is fuelled by - oh - social media and hysterical soundbites.
For all the people with (medically) diagnosed autism (including my non-verbal nephew), I support you. I just hate the bandwagon other people have jumped on. You cannot just use ‘I am autistic’ when it suits you, and especially not to excuse bad behaviour.

I don’t know why he thinks that flashing his cock at young production team members is a symptom of his autism?

His poor wife must be cringing so hard.

You had me at shoving the buttery biscuit base.

95% YANBU. I have to wonder what kind of batshittery ails the 5%. This is as cut and dried as it gets.

Two things can be true...

1. You can have autism.
2. You can be a hyper-sexualised pervert, and such a narcissist that you are completely unable to change until you lose something.

Good luck Gregg.. enjoy your millions, but its time to fuck off now.