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!