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.
Why does that make any difference to the way she’s treated by Greg Wallace?
Utterly nothing. Which is why it was odd that GW was pointed out as being talentless. As well as bald. And old.
I couldn't understand why these attributes were brought into the discussion.
Is his behaviour not enough?
Is his skill level and shiny head needed as a character tie-breaker?
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.
Louise Haigh disagrees and claims that she should have disclosed it:
Ms Haigh admitted that not disclosing this to her employer at the time, the insurance giant Aviva, was a "mistake"
https://news.sky.com/story/louise-haighs-resignation-prompts-internal-labour-blame-game-13263058
It would appear that the real reason she has been forced to resign is that she isn't right-wing enough for the acting prime minister Morgan McSweeney. And she was too close to a rival of his.
Louise Haigh disagrees and claims that she should have disclosed it:
In the article you linked Louise Haigh says not disclosing to Aviva that she'd found the missing phone was a mistake. She's not referring to disclosing the conviction.
Ironically they got a policy for almost everything.
In the light of the allegations those are probably more honoured in the breach than to the letter!
This morning someone has handed Mr Wallace a shovel and told him to keep digging his way out of the hole he's in!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k8kryvdjno
"I've been doing MasterChef for 20 years - amateur, professional and Celebrity MasterChef - and I think in that time I have worked with over 4,000 contestants of all different ages, all different backgrounds, all walks of life," Wallace told his more than 200,000 followers.
"And apparently now, I'm reading in the paper, there's been 13 complaints in that time.
I’ve been working in various jobs for 30 years and in that time have worked with thousands of people of all different ages, all different backgrounds, all walks of life. There’s been zero complaints in that time. If there had been 13 I would think the problem was with me.
The old saying... 'stop digging'. What a plonker.
Another example of these complaints being made 10 years too late. As for that shy retiring Rod getting upset because his wife cooked food that was inedible and potentially poisonous not get upset. The phrase horse and stable door springs to mind.