Gregg Wallace : Another report

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

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! 🤔

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.

Terribull

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

He has always been sleazy! Yeuch!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It would, particularly at the semifinal stage.

Kate54

And yet there he is, still on our screens this evening.

This series of Masterchef was filmed month’s ago.

It would be unfair to the contestants to pull it off air.

And yet there he is, still on our screens this evening.

Aveline

I always liked Penny Lancaster. Fancy bullying her. Good for Rod. Better late than never complaining I suppose.

Perhaps she could have arrested him!

I always liked Penny Lancaster. Fancy bullying her. Good for Rod. Better late than never complaining I suppose.

Dear me. I am not blaming women and I have not read or heard that complaints were made at the time.
Thank you for the information.

To be honest ,
I've never really liked Gregg Wallace .
Poor Kirsty Wark .
I feel sorry for her and other women , who've had to tolerate him .
It's not nice being in that situation .
I'm hoping that these horrible incidents are going to be a thing of the past .
I've longed to get in a time machine and told my mother's old boss exactly what I thought of him .
She was a perfectionist and very much the best candidate for a promotion .
Everything went smoothly for some months and then
, he turned up at her house and made passes at her.
She was devastated and actually really frightened .
She had to keep him at arm's length and needed her job .
It made her really nervous and upset .
Within a few months, her circumstances changed and she was able to leave .
He was furious .
It was in the seventies and complaining was difficult .

I found myself in similar circumstances and when it happened to me in early nineties I went public on it .
The perpetrator denied it and made many threats against me .

Fleurpepper

I wonder what Monica thinks of it all?

I imagine Monica kneed him in the groin years ago, and he’s scared of her.