Who else hates this guy (Gregg Wallace)?

It's easy to see looking through the thread who is afraid of women gaining the confidence to highlight when they are mistreated or made to feel uncomfortable in the workplace.

Someone on R4 was talking about the age of impunity last night in the context of global conflicts, where bad actors do bad things because they know no-one will stop them. It seems that has been the case in entertainment for decades but that is now changing. That can only be a good thing. Having met various TV personalities in a past life, many of them thinking nothing of treating the people around them like ****. You feel like you can't say anything because it's only your experience, but the reality is a hundred other people have had exactly the same treatment. That's why these stories snowball and people get away with it for so long.
 
Freakbro said:
Right, OK. Yea, I think people are being a bit extreme with comments like



There is obviously more going on than just a bit of on air double entendre from either of them. Greg has been pulled up for inappropriate behaviour and had a reprimand from HR previously. And there are off air complaints from work colleagues too.

And from what we've heard, no one incident seems particularly egregious, but it all adds up as the complaints keep coming in.



They are of their time, they probably wouldn't be made nowadays! :p

Saying that, they never play Benny Hill anymore, what's acceptable in society changes
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Can have a top pop song about your wet minge or getting blasted in the ass though!
 
DB_SamX said:
Isn't The Great British Bakeoff equally full of such innuendos that makes eberyone cringe?
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That show was built on innuendo.

The people moaning about the innuendo are just going way over the top, unless we are saying right no innuendo and thats it.. The real issue appears to be the way he behaved off air.
 
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Efour said:
Until every BBC "celeb" is replaced with 6 foot 6 drag queens the current purge will not be complete.
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I dunno that would be far more interesting than the likely outcome of all this turning the BBC programs into some grey, stale, highly censored affair to avoid any controversy whatsover.
 
Dis86 said:
Can have a top pop song about your wet minge or getting blasted in the ass though!
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When you realise what's in the lyrics of some of the old famous songs though...

With a four speed on the floor they'll be waiting at the door
You know that ain't no ****, we'll be getting lots of tit
Grease Lightning
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You are supreme, the chicks'll cream for grease lightning
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With new pistols, plugs, and shocks, I can get off my rocks
You know that I ain't bragging, she's a real pussy wagon
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The full list of songs that have been banned from the BBC over the years is quite impressive tbf lol

List of songs banned by the BBC - Wikipedia

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I think when someone as been abused as a child it distorts boundaries on sexual behaviour.

I think this is what as happened in this situation. He's crossing the line, being inappropriate. Yet in his mind at the time he thought it was ok.

I think that is the most likely explanation of why he as been sabotaging his career for quite a while.
 
esmozz said:
How on earth is this national news!?
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Because that is how News works in the UK, it would not shock me to see a front page saying that Coleen Rooney has revealed on Im a Celeb that she has a common bar and a posh bar at her house. There is junk like that on front pages of our News papers.
 
dave28 said:
Because that is how News works in the UK, it would not shock me to see a front page saying that Coleen Rooney has revealed on Im a Celeb that she has a common bar and a posh bar at her house. There is junk like that on front pages of our News papers.
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Yes, I know all that, I just think the amount of attention such a trivial thing gets demeans us as a society.
 
I do wonder how many known names are going to topple over the coming years. Plenty of edgy 'acts' that people could easily be offended by. Leigh Francis? David Walliams? Andy Peters? Joe Lycett? How are those League of Gentlemen getting on these days?
 
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Hawk Tuah said:
I do wonder how many known names are going to topple over the coming years. Plenty of edgy 'acts' that people could easily be offended by. Leigh Francis? David Walliams? Andy Peters? Joe Lycett? How are those League of Gentlemen getting on these days?
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It's slowing down a bit now because the offended are running out of things/people to get offended by.
 
dave28 said:
Because that is how News works in the UK, it would not shock me to see a front page saying that Coleen Rooney has revealed on Im a Celeb that she has a common bar and a posh bar at her house. There is junk like that on front pages of our News papers.
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Until it has been verified by Rebekah Vardy I simply do not believe Coleen Rooney has a bar dedicated to Victoria Beckham. And you are right to doubt this if it became front page news. Unless confirmed by Mrs Vardy as mentioned.
 
While I'm sure some of his jokes were far too sexual and his behaviour on some occasions towards women wasn't acceptable, there does seem to be a load of nonsense going on as well.

Take this from BBC website.
"Both Georgina, and her colleague, who we're calling Lisa, also say he came out of a bathroom topless in front of them once during a shoot and asked them to take his coffee order."

So he asked for a coffee while getting ready for a photo/video shoot, and happened to not have a shirt on at this point.

And this is worth complaining about?
Have they never been to a beach or swimming pool and seen topless men ? Last I knew it was completely legal for a bloke to topless in public.
 
The 90s were full of people being edgy. That is our thing.

Back then people didn't look to be a victim. They give back what they got.

This was the era of female laddette culture, were women were being just as crude back at men.
 
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