Ep 205: Greggggg Wallace's PR Disaster and the Assisted Dying Bill

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Jemma has been eager to get behind the mic for this one. Being a middle class woman of a 'certain' age has nothing to do with it, honest guv. On that note, the Trawl ladies aren't entirely sure what 'that' certain age is but there's so much to mull over they might never get an answer to that

But there's more to ponder besides Gregg, so they kick off discussing the resignation of Labour's Transport Secretary, Louise Haigh. Haigh was mugged many years ago and said her work phone was one of the items stolen, only said phone then turned up. As far as the Trawlers are concerned this spent conviction pales into comparison with assaulting a woman (Reform MP) or hacking a colleague's computer (Badenoch) but hey....

Marina and Jemma also discuss the Assisted Dying Bill and give their very personal views on that.

And then, finally, they turn their attention to the Gregg Wallace brouhaha. Is there a woman who hasn't taken to socials to say how him blaming his accusers of his alleged misconduct probably wasn't the best plan?

One man however thinks he's a male icon and the ladies have a lot to say about that. Marina surprises Jemma with an underrated tweet she wasn't expecting which ends the ep on a very funny note.

Pudding is brilliant - short but sweet and starring comics Mark Thomas and Shappi Khorsandi.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The contempt of men in society is just absolutely turning off people.
0:04.9	And Greg Wallace, what an absolute strong male role model.
0:10.2	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:15.0	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:16.3	And I'm Gemma Forte and that's Gemma with a J and two M's, though people often do spell it with a G,
0:23.2	which I'm used to, and it's Forte, that's F-O-R-T-E, but sometimes people say Fort. In fact,
0:28.5	they do that quite a lot, and that from MasterChef, and I think he really
0:41.7	doesn't like it if there's a G missing.
0:45.2	And we know that because there was an exchange on Twitter that went viral ages ago where
0:49.7	somebody called Nick Holder said, hi, Greg, 1G, I'm cycling just over 180 miles in two days for Macmillan Cancer Support,
0:58.3	any chance of a retweet.
0:59.9	And Greg Wallace replied, uh, Greg with two Gs, question mark.
1:04.6	And Nick Holder replied, no worries, mate, it's only people with cancer, but you worry about your extra G,
1:10.4	master twat.
1:13.7	And Jay Mottie had dragged this old exchange back up onto Twitter
1:18.1	because he said seeing Greg Wallace trending reminds me of one of the all-time great Twitter exchanges.
1:24.5	So we will look at what's been happening with Greg Gugger properly later. But let's
1:29.5	begin with a clip which was posted by Darren Dutton with a caption, new Greg Wallace recipe.
1:35.2	Today we're making sexual remarks. Just put all your ingredients in a bowl. Middle class
1:40.9	women of a certain age. Get rid of the lumps into that.
1:46.2	Handful of sexual innuendo.
1:52.6	We pour that into our little bowl and we bake it in the oven for 20 years.
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