Why does Gregg Wallace believe he’s the real victim?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Wallace’s friends have been telling newspapers that his "autistic hypersensitivity" meant that he had an “oddity of filters and boundaries", including an inability to wear underwear or any tight clothing. Gregg himself has complained that the BBC neglected its duty of care to him and his recently diagnosed autism. Fifty more people have come forward this week to complain to the BBC about his alleged over-sexualised behaviour on Masterchef. Does Gregg Wallace believe he’s the real victim here? Why is he selling wellness consultation? And why did those around him who saw what he was doing not stop him?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. Are you feeling well? Are you feeling energized and healthy? |
| 0:18.1 | Because if you're like me and you're over 50, the chances are you have put a huge |
| 0:22.4 | amount of effort into your job and looking after your family and very little focus has gone on |
| 0:28.5 | you and your well-being. That's Greg Wallace. And this week, 50 more people have come forward |
| 0:35.4 | to complain about his sexual behaviour on that job he put so much into as host of MasterChef. |
| 0:41.9 | He's now trying to charge 200 quid a session to talk about wellness and mental health. |
| 0:47.6 | This from a man who has had his friends say to the newspapers today, |
| 0:52.3 | the reason he did what he did was because of his autism, he couldn't |
| 0:56.9 | wear underpants. He's trying to paint himself as the victim in all of this. Does this withstand |
| 1:04.3 | even the most basic scrutiny? Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:14.8 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:15.5 | It's John. |
| 1:16.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:28.3 | But before we go any further, it's maybe best to spool back a little bit to before Greg Wallace discovered wellness and was the host of Master Chef and these complaints were made about him. |
| 1:42.3 | I came into the studio and was like, oh, hi Greg, I've got something for you and he said, oh, is it a present for my cock? Greg Wallace came in and launched into a soliloquy, essentially a story of a sexually inappropriate nature |
| 1:50.0 | about his, well, now, the former wife. |
| 1:53.6 | And I was really shocked. |
| 1:55.1 | I most definitely was witness and victim to some of the bullying and harassment behaviour of |
| 2:04.4 | Greg Wallace. |
| 2:06.2 | And unfortunately a lot of those involved in the production team were also witness to that. |
| 2:11.3 | I could feel him touching me around my backside, got into the car and then every time he was changing the gear stick, |
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