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John Torode wasn't wrong
Another swathe of iPlayer content being rapidly removed!
I don’t get how the various production companies management let that behaviour go on so long though. Tell him to wind his neck in or he’s done. He’s not exactly global box office!
I'll be honest he always wound me up whenever I stumbled across anything with him in it. Basically came across as a gobby bloke who used to be a greengrocer so knew everything about food.
That being said I understand he was a victim of sexual abuse at a young age, so that's gotta mess you up a bit.
What
An
Idiot
To behave like that in front of Kirsty wark and think you are going to get away with it is about as stupid as you can get
His biscuit base is buttered then?
Might as well...
Tell him to wind his neck in
....I don't think it's his neck.......
Maybe less of a sexual predator, more of a ****ed up bellend.
….I don’t think it’s his neck…….
No, it's his soggy bottom.
Thank goodness he wasn't the boss of Harrods then ?
No, it’s his soggy bottom
<barfing emoji>
My Mrs and I both agree that MC will be no worse without him as he doesn't seem to bring much to the table. It also really winds her up when contestants call him Chef!
Remember seeing/hearing an article where John Torode said they weren't proper mates and he'd not invited Greg(g) to his wedding.
It's also one of the least surprising bit of news. He's quite clearly quite a complex bloke.
with all these cases, al Fayed, GW, Weinstein, Epstein, Saville, Smyth. it seems that people know, people raise their hand, but they are protected and keep getting away with it.
If people are getting interviewed as facilitators (fayed case reported today, Welby resigning for turning a blind eye) then perhaps we can hope to see a change where perpetrators are not protected by those closer to them
BBC needs to stop/sack these 'stars' that think they can get away with it. Good riddance. Clear out the whole BBC too.
al Fayed, GW, Weinstein, Epstein, Saville, Smyth
Based on what I’ve heard about him, GW is not in anything like the same club as rapists and paedophiles. Inappropriate, yes, should know better, yes, but that’s very different to what the rest of those names got up to.
*judgement reserved until any cases of the above extremely serious crimes come to light, obvs.
Woah, chill out Rod. What have you got against tubby, bald people?
Anyway. I can't say as I'm surprised. Not that I'm a huge fan of Masterchef anyway, but I always found him really irritating. "COOKING DOESN'T GET ANY TOUGHER THAN THIS!" Sure it does, you could set the kitchen on fire and see how easier that makes it for everyone. Twerp.
it seems that people know, people raise their hand, but they are protected and keep getting away with it.
Plus, a lot of victims say the same thing on interviews, "what would be the point in saying anything, who's going to believe a teenage girl over a national/international star?"
Based on what I’ve heard about him, GW is not in anything like the same club as rapists and paedophiles. Inappropriate, yes, should know better, yes, but that’s very different to what the rest of those names got up to.
*judgement reserved until any cases of the above extremely serious crimes come to light, obvs.
Agreed. So far at least. He sounds closer to an unpleasant version of John Barrowman.
What i've heard about him, GW is not in anything like the same club as rapists and paedophiles. Inappropriate, yes,
Maybe not, but if emma kennedy's threads posted by boardinbob above are reliable (which i suspect she'd not post if not) it's symptomatic of the establishment turning of a blind eye to illegality that allows people to get away with it.
Inappropriate, yes
As per the screenshot I posted, grabbing someone's arse is far beyond "inappropriate"
Maybe, but far short of raping kids.
Incidentally, I wonder what his (presumably) wife thinks of the revelation that he's been running his mouth at work about what they get up to in the bedroom?
I was going to say "there's a time and a place for it" but I'm not sure there is. I wouldn't discuss my sex life with my best mates other than in very vague terms like "a girl I knew once" (or "back when I still had one.")
I used to work with a gay bloke who did this. He'd relish* in coming into* at work and telling us in graphic detail what he'd been up to with his boyfriend at the weekend and then play the homophobia card if anyone complained. Mate, I'm not homophobic, I just don't want to know. Moreover, I don't care. If it was the hot lass in Accounts for whom a password audit revealed that her password was "Bondage69" I still wouldn't a blow-by-blow* account.
(* - probably not euphemisms)
Maybe, but far short of raping kids.
I'm sure the sentencing tariffs are reflective of the severity.....but what's your point....it's not raping kids ...so hey that's fine....??
I wonder what his (presumably) wife thinks of the revelation that he’s been running his mouth at work about what they get up to in the bedroom?
From memory he's been through a few wives. I'm sure one he met through twitter after a very bizarre interaction. She left him eventually.
what’s your point….it’s not raping kids …so hey that’s fine….
I'm reasonably confident that wasn't his point.
Someone famous gets busted for (say) shoplifting, a poster here goes "yeah but Jimmy Savile," someone else replies that it's hardly the same thing and your conclusion is that respondent meant "yay for shoplifting"? That's a heck of a leap.
Cougar, thats a whataboutery, he's not say GW was shoplifting... he's effectively saying that altough GW was sexually assaulting female colleagues, but wasn't raping kids so that's OK....i don't think that's how it works
I'm sure they time these things to come out just after the popbitch email has been sent.
He even featured in today's one, I'll just copy it here...
> Buttery biscuit base <<
Gregg's multiple entries
Mr X writes:
"My friend worked with Gregg Wallace on a project.
"All the people on the project team had access to Gregg's work calendar, on which there were multiple entries to 'Have sex with wife'."
"Alas, they were never able to see what the wife's calendar said."
FYI: Gregg's media career was launched by a BBC R4 show called "Veg Talk".
All I remember about him is he always comments on his wife's Instagram photos asking her to print them https://www.thepoke.com/2019/05/07/gregg-wallace-wife-instagram/
but what’s your point…
that people needn’t make comparisons to the actual worst of humanity in the first instance.
I may be the outlier here, but I tend to view all sex offenders as utter ****
I tend to view people as innocent until proven guilty.
If you read the earlier post, it wasn't comparing GW to anyone else, but pointing out that in so many of these cases, senior members of organisations, who have a duty if care to employees, children in their care (etc etc), are aware of the illegal behaviour, and yet turn a blind eye - that is effectively condoning or facilitating the ongoing bad behaviour.
If emma kennedy reported GW behaviour 12 yes ago and nothing was done, and he's continued with that behaviour.....I get that they're allegations about GW etc, but the point is, the BBeeb once again appears not to have intervened when they could/should have done
I tend to view people as innocent until proven guilty
You're not up to speed my man. It's already been made clear across multiple outlets today that the BBC have known about this for a long time.
Genuinely impossible to tell which one is the satire here
Genuinely impossible to tell which one is the satire here
Really? Pretty damn sure which one is actually the true state of affairs…
Woah, chill out Rod. What have you got against tubby, bald people?
D’you honestly think Rod needs to chill, having had his wife insulted by a fat, tubby bald bloke with little to no actual talent?
a fat, tubby bald bloke with little to no actual talent
I might just report you for persecuting my minority!
UK masterchef is utter drivel anyway, so no real loss. Terrible hosts, awful camera work, dry format.
Does this mean that we won't get his gurning gormless enthusiasm on Inside The Factory anymore?
UK masterchef is utter drivel anyway, so no real loss
There speaks someone who didn’t watch a chef cook baked spuds with cheesy beans the other night and win by miles 😀
Does this mean that we won’t get his gurning gormless enthusiasm on Inside The Factory anymore?
Listen, we need presenters who can pretend to have their minds blown while watching someone putting something in a box.
The best Masterchef episode ever.
You could tell he was a wrong'un from the way he held a spoon.
Does this mean that we won’t get his gurning gormless enthusiasm on Inside The Factory anymore?
He's already been removed from that because of innapropriate behaviour
Are we really comparing Greg Wallace to serial paedos and sex traffickers?
Are we really comparing Greg Wallace to serial paedos and sex traffickers?
Someone drew a comparison, and as usual the thread took an unfortunate tangent.
D’you honestly think Rod needs to chill, having had his wife insulted by a fat, tubby bald bloke with little to no actual talent?
Whoa there! There's a lot of us fat, tubby bald blokes with little to no actual talent on here. Where is the report button?
Rod can **** right off! I'd rather be bald than have the hair of a lady from a 1980's sci-fi show!
I had no idea who Greg Wallace was until I opened this thread. Sounds like a massive dickhead.
I had no idea who Greg Wallace was
GREGG!
In 2013 Wallace was lambasted for shutting down a request to help promote fundraising for a cancer charity.
At the time a member of the public shared this request on Twitter: ‘Hi Greg. I am cycling just over 180 miles in two days for Macmillan Cancer Support. Any chance of a retweet?’
Instead of expressing an interest in helping, he replied with one word, correcting the spelling of his name: ‘Gregg?’
So does he own Binners favourite bakers?
If people are getting interviewed as facilitators (fayed case reported today, Welby resigning for turning a blind eye) then perhaps we can hope to see a change where perpetrators are not protected by those closer to them
We can hope but the last private eye edition indicates its only slowly getting there.
There was a very unusual editors column (I dont know how much Hislop normally contributes but I cant remember the last time he put his name on an article) ripping into Welby and some of the "great and good" when he recounted meeting him at a British Museum trustees event shortly after his resignation.
Hislop was more than slightly upset not just with Welby showing his face but how many of the people seemed to sympathise with him.
Copy of it here
One would have thought a talentless twerp like Greg Wallace would have at least behaved himself - fully aware that his fame had no actual basis.
But no, he couldn't resist being a handsy bullying little tosser as well.
I'm glad he won't be on the box any more. He gets on my wick.
I was just reading the comments under Wallace instagram thank-you post to his supporters. Wow, the anti woke brigade are really going for it.
Apparantly we are all to sensitive, and comparing a food dish to his aunties nether regions, grabbing a girls arse and running around a tv studio naked except a strategically placed sock - all alledged of course - is simply “office banter” or words to that effect.
Hislop was more than slightly upset not just with Welby showing his face but how many of the people seemed to sympathise with him.
Hislop has a very good compass......I wonder how many Beeb grandees were there genuflecting?
Interesting to read up thread that the company producing "Inside the Factory" got rid 18 months ago for similar inappropriet behaviour, while the BBC have known for a few years about the GW allegations and did nothing
I want the beeb to do so much better, and you'd hope they would have learnt, but seem to have an institutional blind spot
who’s going to believe a teenage girl over a national/international star?”
We are surely getting to the point now whereby it's going to be far easier to call out this kind of behaviour in future. At least you'd like to think so.
If he's as unpleasant as we are led to believe surely folks would be lining up to grass him up. At my place of work, bullys don't last long, no matter how high up the tree they are. Any hint of wrong doing is reported, whereas more popular individuals usually get away with far more.
We are surely getting to the point now whereby it’s going to be far easier to call out this kind of behaviour in future. At least you’d like to think so.
I'd hope so. We cannot change what has happened, but we can change what happens.
It’s beyond believable that organisations with a high profile history of issues are still covering stuff up until it gets exposed by investigative reporting. C of E and BBC particularly.
On the other hand a Labour cabinet member resigning over some petty historical issue when the rest of the world are happy electing complete bellends. Kier Starmer himself has done more to justify resigning just since being elected.
Why does that make any difference to the way she’s treated by Greg Wallace?
Because, presumably, she should know her place.
It's an old worldview, but still depressingly prevalent.
I just back from a pub quiz. Our team name was Wallace and Grope’it. Got an extra point for the team name so all good.
Amazing. 😀
Yep, always good to make light of things like this :-/
Having met Rod Stewart and seen him a couple of times in concert, his tweet (if that's what it was) was very subdued.
For people who don't know, Lady Penny Lancaster (Rod's wife) is a very talented photographer and a special constable (pcso), she also does a huge amount of work for charity and is not to be trifled with. I'm surprised she didn't lamp Wallace one with the watercrust pastry on a stale pork pie.
Labour cabinet member resigning over some petty historical issue
Seen this a couple of times now, is that how we look on fraud? So she got done over multiple allegations and convicted of one offence and then failed to disclose that information. Yes I'm sure that this time it was just an honest mistake.
Funny how if it was a Tory everyone would be (rightly) up in arms but since it's Labour...
I regularly manage to amuse my missus by doing less than polite impressions of him, turns out I was more on the money than I knew.
Won't be missed by me, never really liked the fella.
And TBF even if he is now "cancelled" he should have an adequate stash of cash after a couple of decades of mockney food waffle and TV ads. God I hope he doesn't become a born again RW pundit on GBN.
Funny how if it was a Tory everyone would be (rightly) up in arms but since it’s Labour
It's a spent conviction she wouldn't have to disclose in normal circumstances anyway. I couldn't care if it was a Labour or Tory minister.
Presumably no one can be rehabilitated and learn from stupid things they've done in the past?
Seen this a couple of times now, is that how we look on fraud? So she got done over multiple allegations and convicted of one offence and then failed to disclose that information.
If she was convicted of one offence then she wasn't "done over multiple allegations", was she? She was under no obligation, morally or otherwise, to declare a spent conviction, and expecting people to do so just denies them rehabilitation. That would even apply to Tories.
Anyway, that Gregg sounds like a bit of a wrong 'un.
I think he needs to stop digging holes on instagram, this morning jumping on to say there was plenty of innuendo from many people of mixed genders during Masterchef filming, but it “women of a certain age” that seem to have a problem with him.
ffs Gregg, sign out.
Not defending the bbc for its behaviour but aren't most programs done by outside companies now? Surely it's them that have been covering up not the bbc.
Edit: yes Banijay, which itself seems to be an umbrella for production companies. Ironically they got a policy for almost everything.