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Lullabelle

Lullabelle

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Masterchef and Masterchef the professionals have been on our screens for a good number of years fronted by the same two people, Gregg Wallace and John Torode.
Not any longer, Gregg has been sacked due to 'his autism causing his offensive behaviour' and now John due to a racist remark he doesn't remember making. The whole investigation has been a right mess from start to finish.
Question is- who will take over? Grace Dent is signed up to replace Gregg but who will take over from John? It will be interesting to see how the dynamics will affect the show going forward.
 
It will indeed. Grace Dent is brilliant and witty - a food critic not a chef. They need a chef to replace John Torode...

Strange thing about the John Torode event is that we don't know what he is alleged to have said. And well, he thinks he didn't say it but did apologise at the time anyway. It was eight years ago.
 
Lullabelle said:
Not any longer, Gregg has been sacked due to 'his autism causing his offensive behaviour' and now
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It has been reported differently over here.
Australian host of UK Masterchef John Torode sacked over racist language
What was Gregg Wallace accused of?
He was accused of sexual misconduct.

Claims against the presenter were published by UK newspaper The Sun in October, with BBC News following up the claims with allegations from 13 people.

In November, Wallace stepped aside from his presenting role amid the Banijay investigation.

The investigation commissioned by Banijay looked at 83 claims made by 41 different people.

It substantiated 45 of those claims.
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So many different stories going around, apparently John didn't know he had been sacked until he read it on social media!
Racist language is never acceptable but, with different cultures accidents can happen, if it was 8 years ago and he apologised at the time, does he really deserve to be sacked? Gregg, yes-his alleged behaviour is unacceptable, John....not really, maybe it was a genuine mistake.
 
If it was reported in "The Sun", then I'm sure their sleazy so-called journalists dug up some pseudo-salacious, misinterpreted junk to publish and ruin someone's career.🤬
 
Apparently he was heard using the 'N' word, that is rarely accidental.
 
karadekoolaid said:
If it was reported in "The Sun", then I'm sure their sleazy so-called journalists dug up some pseudo-salacious, misinterpreted junk to publish and ruin someone's career.🤬
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That really is a cheap nasty rag, wouldn't have thought they had many 'readers' since they stopped page 3.
 
The press this morning ( NOT the gutter press!) said he was at a private event, singing along to a rap song by Kanje West. (IMHO, even listening to Kanje West would be an imprisonable offence, but each to their own :eek: ). The "lyrics", if you can describe them as such, written by the aforementioned Kanje West, contained the word "N****r" - twice. Someone ratted on him and the appallingly woke BBC decided that was enough to terminate him.
I've got a feeling they wanted to get rid of him at any cost, and this was the perfect excuse.
 
I wasn't there so it's mainly hearsay to me.
My main thing here is: 8 years ago...
So you should have sacked him 8 years ago (if you believe this to be a sackable offence), not 8 years later. And we are just talking about something that was said.

Sexual harrassment etc is a whole other ball game
 
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