The fact he says it's a "handful of complaints" - there shouldn't be any complaints if you've not done anything wrong! He's pleading Im the poor victim. Jeez...
Men like this very often escalate this type of conduct to see how far they can go causing discomfort and distress. Seems like his celebrity success inflated his ego. I am glad he's been exposed because he didn't listen to any guidance or straight talking. We should not be surprised if more incidents are disclosed.
In the interests of transparency and full disclosure, would Times Radio like to make clear that when MasterChef was relaunched and cast in 2005 it was produced by Shine Television, then controlled by Elisabeth Murdoch, subsequently sold to interests associated with her father, Rupert Murdoch, who controls News UK, publishers of, inter alia, The Times, The Sun and Times Radio, before merging with Enedemol, which went on to be bought by the current producer, Banijay, or shall we just say it's all a problem with the BBC and use that as an argument to defund them? BTW this is not excusing any of Gregggggg's abhorrent behaviour, but just asking News UK to put up their hand and take some responsibility.
Take responsibility for what? Outing Whopper Wallace when it was already known by the organisations you mentioned as far back as 2012 and beyond that he liked to indulge in predatory and inappropriate behaviour?
The BBC seems to be claiming that it's not their fault because they told him off many times. If you tell somebody off properly you only need to do it once.
It's hard to say. Unfortunately, when you have a presenter who is a fixture on a program, a lot of people are hesitant to get really hard about things. As a person in her sixties, I have had a number of men treat me similarly in office work and a few other places, using remarks to try to fluster me as a kind of bullying. Some may have meant more. But as a woman in the workplace, I didn't have any authority or room to be offended. I really disliked it, but if I tried to say anything, I was told to loosen up and get a sense of humour. I can imagine that Wallace was used to getting away with it, like guys in the office or whatever. But women shouldn't have to just deal with being uncomfortable or insulted (Wallace also accused of remarks against Indian people or those Wallace found unattractive due to age or weight or whatever) just because attitudes used to accept a lot of that behaviour.
@ It would drive me CRAZY to be wearing just one sock all day. It would probably put me in a hostile mood. 🤔 Could be we’ve cracked the mystery of what made him like this, but still: what made him decide to wear one sock?
I seem to remember, on Radio 2, Chris Evens openly discussed live on air his clothing habits (and not washing) - going ‘Commando’ under his trousers, all the time! Another person who considered himself as ‘Untouchable’!
Guilty of gross misconduct in 2012 with any organisation except the BBC he would have been fired. The BBC should uncover the others who are serial offenders & fire them all. How many women have to be abused before the BBC stops ignoring abusers?
Its a disgrace that this is top news while over a million children in poverty while at the same time the heir to the thrones 7 yo child is attending a £47,000 a year prep school.
I missed out on a job at the BBC after several stages in the interview process. I am now very successful at another organisation. I didn't realise at the time, but now I know it was for the best it worked out that way. Seems like there's a lot of things going on there.
Another BBC beast, when will it ever end?, we are sick of the BBC and the creeps that walk it's corridors, scrap the lot, give people back their money and we will watch some of the hundreds of channels available elsewhere.
Narcissists such as Wallace always see themselves as the hero or the victim in their story. They are never the villian. He's a total dork. Loud, yabby and misogynistic. He is the author of his own misfortune.
Certain men, and I’m not necessarily classifying those men, have always had a propensity to use inappropriate language or felt able to invade someone’s else’s space (usually women) since time immemorial. As an old, middle class woman I, like many others of my generation when young and into middle age was subjected to such behaviour. It was not right then and it’s not right now. Unfortunately, when I was young, in the 1970-80s, we had no recourse. This was because as young women we were in less powerful positions in the workplace; I was a secretary /PA after leaving school where virtually all people in power in the organisations in which I worked were men. I then trained as a State Registered Nurse in my early twenties and once again, at that time, more men than women were doctors and nurses were very much treated as their subordinates and were, by some less well mannered individuals, dismissed as such. If someone made lewd jokes, touched me inappropriately I knew that complaining would probably get me nowhere, would single me out as ‘difficult to work with’ and possibly even lose me my job, so I said nothing. Thank God life has moved on. The ‘Me Too’ movement has certainly made people aware of what definitely isn’t appropriate behaviour and, unless you’ve been living under a rock, the majority of people understand what is acceptable and what isn’t, unless they’re being deliberately obtuse! Greg Wallace was never a man I personally enjoyed watching on TV so I’m one of those rare people who didn’t watch Master Chef or affiliated programmes as a result. Even before the latest revelations about him came to light, I could almost have told you that he looked, and sounded, as though he would be full of creepy innuendo and inappropriate ’chat’…you could read it in his face. What totally astounds me is that, if he has in the past been warned about his behaviour and, having it pointed out he has continued to behave like it, this only leads me to suspect that his dressing down was not strong enough and he was not threatened with dismissal if he couldn’t be seen to change his behaviour. The BBC is a fine organisation and I, for one, don’t want us to lose it however, because it’s desperate for ratings and in turn money spinning programmes like Master Chef and others, my feeling is that it let’s these presenters get away with poor behaviour because it’s desperate not to lose audiences. This attitude needs to change if proper behaviours and decent manners are to be encouraged and implemented throughout society, the BBC could and should, like any public facing organisation, be leading the way.
Gregg is a man from the ‘Carry On’ (and 60s & 70s TV Sitcoms including Benny Hill) period of comedy - with sexist innuendos (but without racial slurs) mainly aimed at women! I noticed it from the time he was first on TV. Albeit old jokes and recirculated humour! He hasn’t changed or worked out that times have moved on - this is no longer acceptable. At first it was very harmless, but obviously, he took matters into his own hands as he thought that he was becoming an ‘untouchable’ as he became high in demand and famous. An arrogant personality? Seems familiar? He seems to think 13 complaints is acceptable - indeed, ONE complaint is too many! Another indication of arrogance! What worries me is … why aren’t the Independent TV company held to account, but only the BBC?
Media loves this type of personality, they use the huge personality, even though they are basically crude and unpleasant, knowing they can * feed off him *. Knowing they will blow themselves up eventually.
He’s just your average pleb and very typical of a generation. He just doesn’t have the capacity to adjust and times have moved on. The UK has gone too woke but he’s just an anachronism. People are very sensitive these days so best to keep the banter private. It is embarrassing.
even as the story broke, Gregg was rude in the media towards his accusers,, no gentleman no courtesy ever found in this guy just look at him,,, just listen to his arrogant grossly disrespectful demeanour, Gregg Wallace is ten times worse than Saville
Again you need a professional analyst who is educated to describe in tandem the nature of performative persona. Its actually a bit damning the entertainment industry doesnt own up to this facet of the interplay between a person given a platform and told to perform and away you go and not keep tabs on it properly. Not to condone the mans behavioir , but to learn from this properly there needs to be this understanding of the controllers role.
I have watched this show for years, the man has a sense of humor. People enjoyed this as he was down to earth. But part of the show was bringing in so-called celebrities... most not really. So if someone has decided his sense of humor is offensive then they should not have gone on the show.. But they do because again their need to be in the public eye. So again this world has become a place where we can't laugh at anything.. This is shocking ... BBC should have advised him to tame it down.. but no they let it go and now this is destroying a persons life and career. Being female in this world means there is always jokes.. frankly as we do to men. If I made a complaint about every man that said a blue joke in my vacinity, a large % of the male population would have been tarred and feathered. Come on people lets get back to being ordinary human beings that actually have a sense of humor and stop destroying people.
Originally he seems to have been hung drawn and quartered merely because he made the Times radio presenter Asma Mir uncomfortable. Asma isn’t from a typical British cultural background and I am not comfortable times radio is setting her up as some kind of arbiter as to what is acceptable in a context we dont know and it’s her word against Gregs. Leave it to due process and let’s stop Asma endless repeating her side of the story against a white working class male from the context of a metro middle class socialist with a Muslim heritage.
Also for ALL of these pieces that seemingly lean in one dorection , it HAS TO STOP. The culture of Guilty before complete due process is a degradation in itself. The cure to this is you need a panelist to Check and Balance your segment.
Oh the Times bashing the BBC again, what a surprise. Even though GW doesn't work for the BBC and the program is made by Banijay a production company who are entirely responsible for the staff and the content
So what was once classed as acceptable jokes and banter in the past can now years later get you cancelled it's ridiculous. We live, learn and grow from past history and how times have changed and what's no longer acceptable. I'm just wondering does that mean any adult who once got cained, slapped across the face, took a ruler to the hand or had a chalk board eraser thrown at their head, totally humiliated infront of their class mates etc etc which is not acceptable today because it's classed as abuse mentally, physically, emotionally we can now all now sue past teachers and schools etc have them all cancelled maybe claim compensation. People need to stop this nonsense and cancel culture it's ridiculous.
If they had real journalists they would have reported the real news attached to this story. Greg Wallace exposed the poisonous cattle feed being used to stop cows farting,which could affect humans. This concocted "scandal"is an attempt to silence him by the likes of Gates.
I like Gregg, but I'm also a middle class woman of a certain age, and his comments and physical gestures have unsettled me over the years. He reminds me of my ex-husband, who was abusive to me. I'm not sure either man can stop their uncomfortable behaviours, but they do make women feel unsafe and somewhat violated. I'm not accusing Gregg of any deeper predatory behaviour (unlike my ex). I think Gregg could write individual apologies to any person who has made a complaint against his behaviour, in the studio, and maybe a public statement of general apology. I don't want to see his career ended, he's a man who mirrors the world and values that he saw as he grew up. He perhaps ought to engage in a programme to understand how predatory behaviours impact women, and how making them normalised in public (TV) is the thin end of the wedge? I blame the BBC for not intervening, by doing something like making him attend sessions on this topic, years ago. Hope Gregg can come back from this.
@stephfoxwell4620 Yes, he makes me laugh for his old-fashioned goofiness, but also his enthusiasm for food/industry. He's like that odd Uncle or Dad at a family gathering. People are shades of grey, neither totally good or totally evil, just complex multifaceted diamonds. If we were all the same it would be a bland world. Your comment reminds me of Hermione Granger saying Ron (?) had the emotional range of a teaspoon. I did say that I am not accusing Gregg of any extra abusive behaviour.
@Arya-cf7vu Ah, for Christ sake, you seriously couldn't be that nieve? I can absolutely guarantee you that millions of men, and women definitely behave like that. You've obviously never attended a soccer match!
I wonder if a lot of these people just didnt like Greg Wallace too. How much of a factor on the spectrum does this play? And not liking someone is a very easy trigger to stand to attention to action. Youre simply not adjudicating all the factors. I can easily see there is a element of subjective dislike.
My husband has said for years that he did not like him, and that he felt quite cross that he was allowed to be so rude to women,,, as he noticed his *cheeky * remarks were always to woman who were not in a position to be rude back to him. You have to accept that he only talked like this to women,,, no cheeky jokes about men. My partner says that he is not a man's man. Other men would not want his company
The fact he says it's a "handful of complaints" - there shouldn't be any complaints if you've not done anything wrong! He's pleading Im the poor victim. Jeez...
Men like this very often escalate this type of conduct to see how far they can go causing discomfort and distress. Seems like his celebrity success inflated his ego. I am glad he's been exposed because he didn't listen to any guidance or straight talking. We should not be surprised if more incidents are disclosed.
There is one like this in most offices
Personally I never heard of the bloke until this blew up. I haven't had a television for years but it doesn't sound like I have missed a great deal.
He's the former Barrow Boy the BBC thinks is suitable to tick the working class box on MasterChef.
@@stephfoxwell4620patronizing of them
In the interests of transparency and full disclosure, would Times Radio like to make clear that when MasterChef was relaunched and cast in 2005 it was produced by Shine Television, then controlled by Elisabeth Murdoch, subsequently sold to interests associated with her father, Rupert Murdoch, who controls News UK, publishers of, inter alia, The Times, The Sun and Times Radio, before merging with Enedemol, which went on to be bought by the current producer, Banijay, or shall we just say it's all a problem with the BBC and use that as an argument to defund them? BTW this is not excusing any of Gregggggg's abhorrent behaviour, but just asking News UK to put up their hand and take some responsibility.
Take responsibility for what? Outing Whopper Wallace when it was already known by the organisations you mentioned as far back as 2012 and beyond that he liked to indulge in predatory and inappropriate behaviour?
The BBC seems to be claiming that it's not their fault because they told him off many times. If you tell somebody off properly you only need to do it once.
disciplinary action
It's hard to say. Unfortunately, when you have a presenter who is a fixture on a program, a lot of people are hesitant to get really hard about things. As a person in her sixties, I have had a number of men treat me similarly in office work and a few other places, using remarks to try to fluster me as a kind of bullying. Some may have meant more. But as a woman in the workplace, I didn't have any authority or room to be offended. I really disliked it, but if I tried to say anything, I was told to loosen up and get a sense of humour.
I can imagine that Wallace was used to getting away with it, like guys in the office or whatever. But women shouldn't have to just deal with being uncomfortable or insulted (Wallace also accused of remarks against Indian people or those Wallace found unattractive due to age or weight or whatever) just because attitudes used to accept a lot of that behaviour.
I don’t understand how someone can dress in business attire and not wear underwear. That sounds terribly uncomfortable.
Only wears one sock as well. Weird
My friend's father always reckoned underpants were wussy. He was a coal man.
@ It would drive me CRAZY to be wearing just one sock all day. It would probably put me in a hostile mood. 🤔 Could be we’ve cracked the mystery of what made him like this, but still: what made him decide to wear one sock?
I seem to remember, on Radio 2, Chris Evens openly discussed live on air his clothing habits (and not washing) - going ‘Commando’ under his trousers, all the time!
Another person who considered himself as ‘Untouchable’!
@@paulcameli6666 But... upon which body part was the sock worn?
The BBC has a lot to answer for
especially biased against PALESTINE
And women in every ethnicity
Unlike the Murdoch press, who are as pure as the driven snow of course.
Defund the bbc
Guilty of gross misconduct in 2012 with any organisation except the BBC he would have been fired. The BBC should uncover the others who are serial offenders & fire them all. How many women have to be abused before the BBC stops ignoring abusers?
It was Starmer, he let him off like Jimmy Saville.
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I switched off after they covered up for Jimmy Sav -vile
Its a disgrace that this is top news while over a million children in poverty while at the same time the heir to the thrones 7 yo child is attending a £47,000 a year prep school.
Wasn’t keen on the bloke anyway, and cancelled my tv license anyway
What a Wally. Don't want to see him on my TV this Christmas!
Not ever!!
I missed out on a job at the BBC after several stages in the interview process. I am now very successful at another organisation. I didn't realise at the time, but now I know it was for the best it worked out that way. Seems like there's a lot of things going on there.
He should have stayed in that shed making robot trousers with Gromit.
Another BBC beast, when will it ever end?, we are sick of the BBC and the creeps that walk it's corridors, scrap the lot, give people back their money and we will watch some of the hundreds of channels available elsewhere.
The BBC has had many distractions this last few years, many of which paint the corporation in a sordid light, time to break it up perhaps?
Thats a given
Embarrassing. America has the P Diddy scandal and we have Gregg 'The Grinder' Wallace.
Gregg the Grinder a.k.a Whopper Wallace 😅.
Good to hear at long last, the tide is turning. Creeps will no longer be tolerated.
He'll face the same legal outcome as Russell Brand... Nothing, because he did NOTHING!!!
He's got a face like a maris piper and he thinks he's god's gift ffs..😂
Narcissists such as Wallace always see themselves as the hero or the victim in their story. They are never the villian.
He's a total dork. Loud, yabby and misogynistic. He is the author of his own misfortune.
The bbc not showing wallsis and gropper this xmas
Grinder Gregg a.k.a Whopper Wallace. 😅
Certain men, and I’m not necessarily classifying those men, have always had a propensity to use inappropriate language or felt able to invade someone’s else’s space (usually women) since time immemorial. As an old, middle class woman I, like many others of my generation when young and into middle age was subjected to such behaviour. It was not right then and it’s not right now. Unfortunately, when I was young, in the 1970-80s, we had no recourse. This was because as young women we were in less powerful positions in the workplace; I was a secretary /PA after leaving school where virtually all people in power in the organisations in which I worked were men. I then trained as a State Registered Nurse in my early twenties and once again, at that time, more men than women were doctors and nurses were very much treated as their subordinates and were, by some less well mannered individuals, dismissed as such. If someone made lewd jokes, touched me inappropriately I knew that complaining would probably get me nowhere, would single me out as ‘difficult to work with’ and possibly even lose me my job, so I said nothing.
Thank God life has moved on. The ‘Me Too’ movement has certainly made people aware of what definitely isn’t appropriate behaviour and, unless you’ve been living under a rock, the majority of people understand what is acceptable and what isn’t, unless they’re being deliberately obtuse!
Greg Wallace was never a man I personally enjoyed watching on TV so I’m one of those rare people who didn’t watch Master Chef or affiliated programmes as a result. Even before the latest revelations about him came to light, I could almost have told you that he looked, and sounded, as though he would be full of creepy innuendo and inappropriate ’chat’…you could read it in his face.
What totally astounds me is that, if he has in the past been warned about his behaviour and, having it pointed out he has continued to behave like it, this only leads me to suspect that his dressing down was not strong enough and he was not threatened with dismissal if he couldn’t be seen to change his behaviour. The BBC is a fine organisation and I, for one, don’t want us to lose it however, because it’s desperate for ratings and in turn money spinning programmes like Master Chef and others, my feeling is that it let’s these presenters get away with poor behaviour because it’s desperate not to lose audiences. This attitude needs to change if proper behaviours and decent manners are to be encouraged and implemented throughout society, the BBC could and should, like any public facing organisation, be leading the way.
If my memory serves me right Mr Wallace and Charlie Hicks presented a show on Radio 4 called Veg Talk before he was on TV.
Gregg is a man from the ‘Carry On’ (and 60s & 70s TV Sitcoms including Benny Hill) period of comedy - with sexist innuendos (but without racial slurs) mainly aimed at women! I noticed it from the time he was first on TV. Albeit old jokes and recirculated humour! He hasn’t changed or worked out that times have moved on - this is no longer acceptable.
At first it was very harmless, but obviously, he took matters into his own hands as he thought that he was becoming an ‘untouchable’ as he became high in demand and famous. An arrogant personality? Seems familiar?
He seems to think 13 complaints is acceptable - indeed, ONE complaint is too many! Another indication of arrogance!
What worries me is … why aren’t the Independent TV company held to account, but only the BBC?
Media loves this type of personality, they use the huge personality, even though they are basically crude and unpleasant, knowing they can * feed off him *. Knowing they will blow themselves up eventually.
They have turned the comments off on most of the clips on TH-cam 😅. Whopper Wallace rides again .Not.
He’s just your average pleb and very typical of a generation. He just doesn’t have the capacity to adjust and times have moved on. The UK has gone too woke but he’s just an anachronism. People are very sensitive these days so best to keep the banter private. It is embarrassing.
Well this guy has had a career and a scandal and I've never heard of him. I have a warm feeling now. I feel like I've reached the surface 😊
even as the story broke, Gregg was rude in the media towards his accusers,,
no gentleman no courtesy ever found in this guy
just look at him,,, just listen to his arrogant grossly disrespectful demeanour,
Gregg Wallace is ten times worse than Saville
Are you serious or just misinformed? Do you know the full extent of Savilles crimes, he was a monster!!😮
Again you need a professional analyst who is educated to describe in tandem the nature of performative persona. Its actually a bit damning the entertainment industry doesnt own up to this facet of the interplay between a person given a platform and told to perform and away you go and not keep tabs on it properly. Not to condone the mans behavioir , but to learn from this properly there needs to be this understanding of the controllers role.
I have watched this show for years, the man has a sense of humor. People enjoyed this as he was down to earth. But part of the show was bringing in so-called celebrities... most not really. So if someone has decided his sense of humor is offensive then they should not have gone on the show.. But they do because again their need to be in the public eye. So again this world has become a place where we can't laugh at anything.. This is shocking ... BBC should have advised him to tame it down.. but no they let it go and now this is destroying a persons life and career. Being female in this world means there is always jokes.. frankly as we do to men. If I made a complaint about every man that said a blue joke in my vacinity, a large % of the male population would have been tarred and feathered. Come on people lets get back to being ordinary human beings that actually have a sense of humor and stop destroying people.
Originally he seems to have been hung drawn and quartered merely because he made the Times radio presenter Asma Mir uncomfortable.
Asma isn’t from a typical British cultural background and I am not comfortable times radio is setting her up as some kind of arbiter as to what is acceptable in a context we dont know and it’s her word against Gregs.
Leave it to due process and let’s stop Asma endless repeating her side of the story against a white working class male from the context of a metro middle class socialist with a Muslim heritage.
I always thought he looked like a serial killer the glasses makes him look worse
Also for ALL of these pieces that seemingly lean in one dorection , it HAS TO STOP. The culture of Guilty before complete due process is a degradation in itself. The cure to this is you need a panelist to Check and Balance your segment.
Yer wot, Ivan?
Oh the Times bashing the BBC again, what a surprise. Even though GW doesn't work for the BBC and the program is made by Banijay a production company who are entirely responsible for the staff and the content
Rice and faal.
So what was once classed as acceptable jokes and banter in the past can now years later get you cancelled it's ridiculous. We live, learn and grow from past history and how times have changed and what's no longer acceptable. I'm just wondering does that mean any adult who once got cained, slapped across the face, took a ruler to the hand or had a chalk board eraser thrown at their head, totally humiliated infront of their class mates etc etc which is not acceptable today because it's classed as abuse mentally, physically, emotionally we can now all now sue past teachers and schools etc have them all cancelled maybe claim compensation. People need to stop this nonsense and cancel culture it's ridiculous.
He isnt being sued. If thoae teachers did what they did then today, there would be consequences.
But he hasn't changed.
Well said! As a 66 yr old woman, I fail to understand how some people have become so I incredibly sensitive. 🤔
Problem is that despite complaints over the years Gregg hasn’t learnt.
@@Mr.Edd3905 he's always been a jack the lad and I'm damn sure he'll learn from this.
As long as it keeps certain other (more important) stories off the headlines eh?
Who gives a toss about this? Report some real news!
What like grooming gangs....how dare u!
If they had real journalists they would have reported the real news attached to this story.
Greg Wallace exposed the poisonous cattle feed being used to stop cows farting,which could affect humans.
This concocted "scandal"is an attempt to silence him by the likes of Gates.
What a load of BS. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty.
His face already shows guilt lol
When are the gold diggers coming out of the wood work?
I like Gregg, but I'm also a middle class woman of a certain age, and his comments and physical gestures have unsettled me over the years. He reminds me of my ex-husband, who was abusive to me. I'm not sure either man can stop their uncomfortable behaviours, but they do make women feel unsafe and somewhat violated. I'm not accusing Gregg of any deeper predatory behaviour (unlike my ex). I think Gregg could write individual apologies to any person who has made a complaint against his behaviour, in the studio, and maybe a public statement of general apology. I don't want to see his career ended, he's a man who mirrors the world and values that he saw as he grew up. He perhaps ought to engage in a programme to understand how predatory behaviours impact women, and how making them normalised in public (TV) is the thin end of the wedge? I blame the BBC for not intervening, by doing something like making him attend sessions on this topic, years ago. Hope Gregg can come back from this.
What a bizarre post
You "like" a bloke who reminds you of your abusive ex??
@stephfoxwell4620 Yes, he makes me laugh for his old-fashioned goofiness, but also his enthusiasm for food/industry. He's like that odd Uncle or Dad at a family gathering. People are shades of grey, neither totally good or totally evil, just complex multifaceted diamonds. If we were all the same it would be a bland world. Your comment reminds me of Hermione Granger saying Ron (?) had the emotional range of a teaspoon. I did say that I am not accusing Gregg of any extra abusive behaviour.
He's only 60, and millions of people in his generation do not behave like that
@Arya-cf7vu true, but some do too.
@Arya-cf7vu Ah, for Christ sake, you seriously couldn't be that nieve? I can absolutely guarantee you that millions of men, and women definitely behave like that. You've obviously never attended a soccer match!
I wonder if a lot of these people just didnt like Greg Wallace too. How much of a factor on the spectrum does this play? And not liking someone is a very easy trigger to stand to attention to action. Youre simply not adjudicating all the factors. I can easily see there is a element of subjective dislike.
I think u r so right
My husband has said for years that he did not like him, and that he felt quite cross that he was allowed to be so rude to women,,, as he noticed his *cheeky * remarks were always to woman who were not in a position to be rude back to him. You have to accept that he only talked like this to women,,, no cheeky jokes about men. My partner says that he is not a man's man. Other men would not want his company
Has the times been bought by the daily star?