The MasterChef Disaster - What Happens Next?

The Rest Is Entertainment

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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John Torode and Gregg Wallace have been sacked from the BBC's flagship cookery programme MasterChef - but what happens next to them and the upcoming shows? Richard Osman and Marina Hyde answer your questions about the latest scandal affecting the BBC. John Torode says that he has “no recollection of any of this” and “does not believe it happened”. John Torode’s team have been approached for comment by Goalhanger The Rest Is Entertainment AAA Club: Become a member for exclusive bonus content, early access to our Q&A episodes, ad-free listening, access to our exclusive newsletter archive, discount book prices on selected titles with our partners at Coles, early ticket access to future live events, and our members’ chatroom on Discord. Just head to therestisentertainment.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestisentertainment. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: Aaliyah Akude Video Editor: Kieron Leslie, Charlie Rodwell, Adam Thornton, Harry Swan Producer: Joey McCarthy Senior Producer: Neil Fearn Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.2	Hello and welcome to this standalone Q&A episode of The Rest is Entertainment.
1:19.6	I'm Marina Hyde.
1:20.6	And I'm Richard Arden.
1:23.6	Well done for studiously avoiding the term emergency podcast.
1:30.8	It is a standalone podcast about a developing news event, isn't it, Richard? And specifically,
1:35.6	it's been another great wait for men in television. We are talking about Master Chef and the firing of John To Road and Greg Wallace. And we're doing because we had so many questions. So we're leaving
1:40.7	our regular Q&A thing as it is as a Master Chef free zone. but we're going to answer all your questions about Master Chef on this one.
1:47.8	We've spoken to a lot of people involved on a lot of sides of this particular issue.
1:53.2	So hopefully we have some interesting information.
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