Gregg Wallace, the BBC and the MeToo movement

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

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Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace has just issued an apology for 'any offence caused' after he blamed middle class women for coming forward to complain about his over sexualised banter in the work place. Just to be clear, that's not an apology for the sex stuff. Just for the instagram post. He also told us he felt 'under siege' for just being Gregg on Masterchef. What does this episode tell us about victim blaming and victimisation, about work places that profess 'zero tolerance', and about the health of the Me Too movement more than a decade after it all began.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.0	This is a global player original podcast. I want to apologise for any offence that I caused with my post yesterday and any upset I may have caused to a lot of people.
0:23.7	I wasn't in a good headspace when I posted it. I've been under a huge amount of stress,
0:31.3	a lot of emotion. I felt very alone under siege yesterday when I posted it. It's obvious to me I need to take some time out.
0:40.4	Now while this investigation is underway, I hope you understand,
0:45.4	and I do hope that you will accept this apology.
0:48.5	Greg Wallace has apologised in case anyone was offended.
0:57.3	And you heard his wording there, he felt stressed,
1:06.6	emotional and under siege. It comes 24 hours after a post where the whole tone of voice,
1:12.8	the whole timbre of the message, the whole kind of thrust of it, was completely different.
1:15.9	So which is the real Greg Wallace?
1:20.4	Defiance on Sunday or contrite on Monday.
1:22.5	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:26.8	The newsagents.
1:27.6	It's John. It's John.
1:28.3	It's Emily.
1:32.5	And Greg Wallace posted yesterday morning.
1:34.8	And, you know, look, we have got phones.
1:39.2	No one forces you to post anything at any moment. You can think about things before you decide to hit post.
1:48.7	But Greg Wallace, yesterday was clearly angry,
1:56.3	he was clearly defiant and the PR backlash has been immense. This is what he said yesterday. And apparently now, I'm reading in the paper, there's been 13 complaints in that time.
2:04.4	Now in the newspaper, I can see the complaints
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