Gregg Wallace : Another report

It would, particularly at the semifinal stage.

Iam64

It was up to Penny to complain, not her husband. It seems she decided not to expose herself to the ridicule and criticism, scepticism she’d be well aware would be part of the responses.

Yes I agree, she was probably right about that, but Rod should have backed her up there and then, not waited till now, although as somebody has already said, better late than never.

Gregg Wallace- ugh . Powerful men have always felt entitled to undermine others and get away with it many of the women were freelancers who rely on their jobs and can’t easily whistleblow. I can’t stand him or John Torode-but at least JT has a knowledge of food unlike barrow boy Gregg. I stopped watching MC because of the ghastly presenters

I gave up with MC some years ago as I felt it was a waste of good food eaten by people who didn't know what being hungry means. I try to watch Inside The Factory but monster Wallace always annoys me with his Whoaa! at some point

Funny how you don’t take to some people I could never watch anything he was in as he made me cringe (obviously didn’t know any of this) but he seemed so sick making his whole personality and awful grin simple put me off couldn’t stand him ehyugggg

Another case of the BBC being complicit in covering up bad behaviour.

Indeed. It sounds very similar to the culture on Dr Who with John Barrowman. I actually think there is a fundamental problem with the BBC

He has always been sleazy! Yeuch!

How did they not know he has made comments on TV progs before - when he was humilating/helping people about how much they spent on their groceries. He is so sleezy anyway.

I can easily see why his 1st wife Christine refuses point blank to have anything to do with him after being unlucky enough to be married to him for just 6 weeks.

Apparently after splitting he packed his huge amount of porno mags and left!

Galaxy

Indeed. It sounds very similar to the culture on Dr Who with John Barrowman. I actually think there is a fundamental problem with the BBC

I don’t. We know it happens on all networks. I’m quite sure there are plenty more disgusting divas on TV, and if we knew the full extent of it we’d be shocked.

winterwhite

All this is very true and I know nothing about this man but I dislike these cases coming up out of the past. I think people should speak up at the time and not let it drop.

But they did and the BBC ignored it.
No lessons have been learnt from the Jimmy Saville case.

People should be able to report a crime at any time; particularly ones of this type, because they are so very often committed against vulnerable victims, who may not understand the magnitude of their abuse.

His persona, "shouty, sleazy geezer" is just awful, it's not just me, my husband is always prone to say if Wallace pops up, "switch him off!" I just wonder why he got to front so many programmes courtesy of the BBC anyway, particularly food related programmes such as Masterchef, he was never a chef in the first place. The BBC do seem to have a coterie of their favourite undesirables who seemingly have carte blanche to do what they damn well like, until they are eventually outed. His behaviour sounded awful, and I recognise the type, from my working days back in the 70s/80s. Such men are appalling anachronisms that unfortunately are still exist. I particularly hate the way when brandishing their idea of just a bit of fun, John Barrowman's another, if women have the temerity to complain they are deemed as some sort of miserable, thin lipped spoil sport, because no harm was intended. Stupid people who have too much sense of themselves and no empathy as to how their behaviour affects other. Honestly Good Riddance!

Terribull

he was never a chef in the first place
I always wondered about that too when I watched him judging dishes.

MissAdventure

People should be able to report a crime at any time; particularly ones of this type, because they are so very often committed against vulnerable victims, who may not understand the magnitude of their abuse.

Precisely. My friend's daughter has finally seen the man who abused her brought to justice (even if the sentence was a lot less than he actually deserved). The abuse began when she was just 13 - she is 29 now. It took many years of suffering with her mental health before she finally managed to summon up the courage to report him, mainly because this older man had convinced her it wasn't abuse and he 'loved' her, so she blamed herself for falling for his lies.

I can't understand why these lurid accusations take so long to emerge? If he came on to me with his bits-out, I would have shouted about it to the bloody rafters. "Get your hands off me you baste*d" " Put that away you tosser! ect, ect.".
Why didn't the victims speak- out sooner ? He was just a greengrocer who got lucky, but it shoudnt matter who he is!
I have been grabbed & flashed at & have always called them out.
Strangely, it's often the blokes that have seemed quite ok & respectable that turn out to be 'The pervy wolves in sheep's clothing'!!! Girls should be taught the subtle art of saying 'F**k o** you w**k*r as it seems not be second nature to many females to do so. Alas! 🤔

Not surprising at all. I’ve always thought GW - at least, the tv persona - is creepy, full of his own importance and utterly repulsive.

Ilovedogs22

I can't understand why these lurid accusations take so long to emerge? If he came on to me with his bits-out, I would have shouted about it to the bloody rafters. "Get your hands off me you baste*d" " Put that away you tosser! ect, ect.".
Why didn't the victims speak- out sooner ? He was just a greengrocer who got lucky, but it shoudnt matter who he is!
I have been grabbed & flashed at & have always called them out.
Strangely, it's often the blokes that have seemed quite ok & respectable that turn out to be 'The pervy wolves in sheep's clothing'!!! Girls should be taught the subtle art of saying 'F**k o** you w**k*r as it seems not be second nature to many females to do so. Alas! 🤔

Good for you! Years ago, I would have said that if anything like that happened to me, I'd have reacted the same way. However, when it did actually happen - guess what, I froze completely. I couldn't move a muscle, couldn't speak, couldn't shout, couldn't react in any way - and to this day, it's attitudes like yours which still make me feel utterly ashamed of myself, even though I now know that freezing is a very common reaction. Not everyone reacts in the same way to things like this - and you never know how you are going to react until it actually happens. Stop with the victim shaming!

My husband said that when he worked in the construction industry the men could be very coarse but the moment a female appeared all shouting, swearing and rude jokes stopped and anyone who didn’t was soon told off.

He told me that one day working fitting out a shop one of the obnoxious men spoke very rudely about a woman walking past. This was my sil and she smiled and waved to my husband so he told this man that she was his wife and he wasn’t very happy (not put so politely). The man never returned to the job - hopefully he learned to be more polite.

Ohhh no MissInterpreted!!! I'm not victim shaming at all,
I clearly stated that girls should be taught assertiveness at school /home ect because some woman/girls simply cannot stand-up against a sexual predator, it's simply not in their DNA. Soo they have to be taught early-on that it's ok to say No, no & bugger off!
You seem to be deliberately '"Twisting my melons man" in the words of the HappyMonday's! 🤔

I consider myself outspoken, but people "in charge" reduce me to a child again.
"Thank you, thanks so much for treating me badly/not doing what you promised/treating me like a bimbo" and a whole host of other situations.

Ilovedogs22

Ohhh no MissInterpreted!!! I'm not victim shaming at all,
I clearly stated that girls should be taught assertiveness at school /home ect because some woman/girls simply cannot stand-up against a sexual predator, it's simply not in their DNA. Soo they have to be taught early-on that it's ok to say No, no & bugger off!
You seem to be deliberately '"Twisting my melons man" in the words of the HappyMonday's! 🤔

I'm not twisting anything, I assure you. Yes, we should be teaching girls how to be assertive and stand up for themselves - I have no problem with that whatsoever. The point I am making is that you can be as assertive and confident as you like, but until something actually happens to you, you just don't know how you will react, so we should focus on supporting those who have been victims of such behaviour rather than asking why they didn't do X, Y or Z at the time.

The freezing reaction is pretty common, but as a young tube traveller in the late 50s/early 60s I soon discovered that standing on a perpetrator in a stiletto heel was very effective.

Also it isnt necessarily good advice particularly with regard to flashers, who can often be dangerous, I am not sure whether confrontation in some circumstances would be wise.