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?

Yes. The constant link on here with ND and harming others is a worry as it stigmatises people with the conditions. I think people sometimes struggle to understand the difference between reason and excuse. The reason a person behaves harmfully may (or may not) be because they have a disability or health condition, but this doesn't excuse it. Harmful behaviour needs to be stopped. The only difference the cause might make is what is done to stop it.

I’ve not seen this and I follow all the ND threads. I’ve seen ND suggested when there is coldness, needing time alone,perceived lack of empathy etc in the mix but not assault or harmful behaviour.

Some of what has been reported seems to me to be grounds for criminal investigation, not just sacking.

I know a man whose family rushed to get him diagnosed with autism after he got caught taking photos of young girls on a beach. He got away with it and still coaches young children in sport.

We’re not going to agree on the post being discussed so I suggest we just leave it at that as nothing is going to be gained from us going round and round in circles with each other and probably like you, I have loads of other things to be getting on with today.

Wish I could heart this more than once. I'm absolutely sick of it. I bang on about being autistic myself but sick of this nonsense constantly on this forum. It drives me deranged! ❤️

Someone (apparently autistic as well) got in a snit with an OP who'd had enough of her autistic brother who'd been abusive to her and her parents his whole life and pushed her down the stairs on one occasion. OPs DH was autistic as well and hated her brother for the aforementioned pushing her down the stairs. This meant the OP hated autistic people despite being married to one!

@Tagyoureit You too! ❤️

You can decide what you like for yourself, not for me thanks.

@Fk48fj I think @Cursula makes some good points. She has identified she may have ND/Autistic traits but has decided to navigate life her way.

There are people with autism/ADHD/ND who simply cannot cope or navigate life without extra support. They absolutely deserve support.

What @Cursula says is that there are increasing numbers of people who are defining themselves as autistic/ADHD/ND without any medical diagnosis-quite often traits we all have are labelled, unnecessarily.

You state in your post that @Cursula is not autistic-how do you know?

We seem to be living in an era where we have to sit firmly in camps - thinking of if we do not accept that ND people cannot do certain tasks then we are naysayers. Some days I cannot face getting up and dealing with things in life - I am just having a bad day. Increasingly we are labelling every trait as ND/SEN/autistic. I think @Cursula nails it when she refers to the anonymity of MN as otherwise her views would see her potentially cancelled. I see as much intolerance from autistic/ND people towards anyone questioning anything as much as I see the ‘eye roll’ from those who are sceptical that so many people are now considered ND. Is anyone really neuro typical?

You can decide what you like for yourself, not for me thanks

I was being polite because I didn’t want to say I couldn’t be bothered with any more replies to you as we’d never be in agreement about that post. And if you’re wondering why? Well, your last reply to me is quite the give away and I knew the kind of turn that any discussion with you could take, so I did what I quite often do on these threads and I decided to get on with my day.

I won’t be replying to anything else you say to me, and you can decide whether or not you want to keep going round and round in circles with me all on your own.

And there you have it.

Stupid little man who has doubled down on his position that it was all just "banter". That's the end of his career.

I have, many times. Not on ND threads, but regularly on AIBU and relationship threads. Older teen boys displaying violence to their mothers and sisters almost always recieve a lay diagnosis from at least one person. As do 'creepy' neighbours and inappropriate colleagues.

I'm going to be wearing mine today just for the hell of it 😉

His diagnosis is neither here nor there, you can still be a criminal whether you are autistic or not. It doesn’t stop you from being a twunt.

He really doesn't know when to shut up does he? Dear GregG, much of the Mchef audience - yes, many of us middle-class women of a certain age - has been muttering 'shut up GregG' at the tv for years, our only justification being that you are both rather ignorant and Very Loud. So the revelations about your off-screen behaviour hasn't improved our impression of you. You have advisors; They are doubtless also telling you to shut up. You have lawyers. They are telling you to shut up. Perhaps you could pause and consider who you want to listen to? Yourself? Or the massed ranks of bloody furious women and men who find your behaviour atrocious and quite possibly criminal. Shut Up GregG.

I have one that follows rules to the very letter but can lie by ommission

The other lies and treats rules like poor suggestions

Not everyone is the same

Autism didn't turn him into a cunt.

Yup.

Back again.🙄Only person going round in circles is you. I replied as I disagreed with you and that is all.

Autistic traits is not autism. To get an autism diagnosis you need to reach a threshold of particular traits and have evidence ( clinical and historical)that they significantly impact life. Having a bad day is not it.

Said poster stated she just got on with it and doesn’t agree with labels, one can thus safely assume she does not have an autism diagnosis. If she regards herself as autistic but some superior kind of autism that doesn’t need a diagnosis is she not guilty of what she is accusing others of?

The waiting lists for autism are very long and autistic people ( often steered by professionals) are defining themselves as autistic before diagnosis because they have to.

My dc said….. “I’m autistic and I’m not a sex pest”
Having ASD isn’t an excuse to be a bad person, he’s just using it as an excuse but it’s not a viable one. There are many people with ASD that are not a sex pest or a twat.

I do some (very irregular) work as a film and TV extra and this time last year was called for a costume fitting for a period drama. Along with the time to arrive, the postcode and contact name, the instructions clearly said, in block capitals, PLEASE WEAR APPROPRIATE UNDERWEAR.

At the time I commented to DH how odd it was, and who on earth would turn up to a fitting for a costume without wearing their pants. Gregg Wallace, that's who.

He’s disgusting. He may well have autism. Doesn’t stop him being a disgusting ketch though. Sadly, my experience of people with autism (both ASD adult DS and DP do this when faced with what they see as an attack in their actions) does reflect a desire to ‘double down’ when confronted, so I’m not surprised he’s doing this.

Well exactly, which makes his claims even more ridiculous, becsuse clearly he Haa capacity to understand, that these behaviours are inappropriate
And it makes a mockery of those who don't have the capacity to understand how their behaviour affects others.

Really disgraceful.

I’m not sure what he’s trying to achieve - sympathy?

From a career perspective wouldn’t it have been better to hold his hands up, apologise, say he’s learned from the experience, and it will never happen again?

Exactly this.

When I was in my 20s I was abroad at a friend of a relatives house and we went on some day trips. It transpired their huge 6ft 20 year old son had a thing for grabbing women’s boob. He made a sharp move towards me at one point and someone physically intervened.

I said look I am happy to leave if you can’t keep both of us safe, but just know there will be consequences if he tries to sexually assault me. (Ie. I will defend myself! )

They made sure he didn’t touch me but it’s a bit disturbing it seems to have happened many more times before.

They need to keep a closer eye on him if he is doing that to women . He is non-verbal and it must be hard to manage a young man of that size but they must protect women.
And also him because it might end badly for him if he touches the wrong woman.

In fact when he made a beeline for me it was a non-family member who realised what he was going to do and intervened. If I’d been super tolerant about it I get the impression they’d just have let him do what he wanted.