Ulrika Jonsson says Gregg Wallace was forced to apologise after making a “rape joke” during the filming of an episode of Celebrity Masterchef.
Jonsson, a contestant on the hit programme, said another female contestant became “really distressed” after the presenter allegedly made the inappropriate remark.
The Swedish-born television personality, best known for working as a weather presenter and appearing on Shooting Stars, said she saw another contestant walking off the set.
She said that when she followed her to find out what had happened, she was told Wallace had made an offensive joke.
“She then told us that Gregg Wallace had made a rape joke,” Jonsson alleged. “She was really distressed about it.”
The contestant then “retold” the joke to Jonsson before speaking to a producer about what had allegedly occurred.
“They then went off to speak to Gregg,” she said. “After a while he came up…and he apologised.”
“He could hardly get his words out,” she said. “He was apologising, and he had tears in his eyes.” She said the other contestant “accepted his apology”.
No, not the joke, whatever it was.
You make a mistake, you apologise for it and at least attempt not to do it again. End of matter.
What the hell happened to society where that’s not how things work?
We back in – mythical, obviously – Victorian times whre the mention of the word ankle leads to permanent ostracisation from polite society?
I thought she was best known for having four children by different men?
Can’t possibly judge unless I hear the joke. But first reaction is ‘get over it’. Don’t bottle it up for thirteen years and then all pile on at once for ‘conduct’ that amounts to very little except to a pathetic snowflake. Historic allegations should be dismissed if no complaint was made at the time.
so he made an off colour comment, someone got upset, his being out of order was pointed out to him and he apologised. The apology was accepted.
Have I got that right?
How is this a news story?
Who hasn’t made a social faux Pas or two?
Seems to me that he just forgot that womens tend to don’t like rape jokes. Oh well.
I was more concerned about the picture of Johnsson on the Terriblegraph website.
Has she been in some horrific accident ?
Rhoda: ’ Historic allegations should be dismissed if no complaint was made at the time.’
This, x 1000!
This and the Conor Gregor ‘rape’ damages case is really testing my resolve as a modern woman.
When did “ostracism” stop being a word?
Ottokring – that’s the way plastic degrades after a few years – sad but inevitable.
Something unfortunate has definitely happened to Ulrika’s arm, her neck looks reptilian and she seems to have lost weight. She should probably get a checkup. A sad demise of what used to be a very pretty woman, but time gets us all. I’m a bloody gargoyle nowadays.
And offence-mining from decades back? Give it a rest, love. If the bloke was being a twat a “strong woman” would have done the necessary there and then. There are plenty of ways.. Perhaps the wimmin aren’t actually as strong as they proclaim?
I must admit when I first heard this I thought it was the usual BBC method of breaking some horrific news gently to get the public used to it first. The Huw Edwards case appeared to be pretty well controlled. 1. Yes, Huw’s got some dodgy pics which he paid £32,000 for but it was only of a “very nearly an adult’s bum” who must be a wrong ‘un because he spent all the money on cocaine 2. Huw’s had a nervous breakdown and is in hospital because he’s so ashamed 3. Gosh! It turns out it was the vilest pedo porn but he got it for free from an old mate. 4. He’s pleaded guilty and lost his job and been publicly shamed so that’s punishment enough, M’lud. 5. Edwards gets a pay rise to his already huge bloated BBC salary so will have to live off a mere £40,000 a month for the rest of his life.
So my reaction now is let’s wait and see.
But yes, Ottokring, that neck looks as though she tried to give a blowjob to a very tall geezer from the normal kneeling position while initially facing the wrong way…
It ain’t the years, it’s the mileage. Lots of women her age don’t look anywhere near as bad as that. Still, her problem to solve, not mine.
Wow. The ‘victim’ was so traumatised that she: ” …then “retold” the joke to Jonsson…”
Whilst it was s tempting to dismiss this as a no story in this world of permanent offence, the Telegraph story has some grim reading.
Frankly, if as an older man in a position of power he did any of those things to my daughters, he would be well advised to urgently get his affairs in order.
Funny they mention Shooting Stars, where mock sexual harassment of her was a running joke. “Normalising”, as the yoof like to say. But I assume she made good money out of that. It’s only wrong for as long as the victim takes offense, or something.
My dog’s got no nose.
Eh? What Happened Here
One of the dwindling number of straight white males still appearing on bbc tv told a joke so utterly heinous over a decade ago that at one time this morning the first five stories on the telegraph front page were devoted to it.
(Frankie Boyle and Jo “Battery Acid” Brand were not available for comment).
I dare say he’s a dodgy geezer but does this feeble story provide the real motive?
In other words, what’s up?
If you get raped by a clown, does it feel funny?
I am assuming this is another rhetorical question or this is some kind of science fiction scenario where the protagonist has been asleep for the past 50 years.
Steve is very clear on this (among others)
If you are
– White
– Male
– Heterosexual
– Able bodied
– work in the private sector
– Have political views in any way right wing
– Are Christian, even nominally
The establishment has the same view of you as the T-800 Terminator had of Sarah Connor in the first film in the series.
As Kyle Reese puts it (Adapted):
Listen, and understand! The establishment is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!
And it’s quite true. They have no pity for anyone in the above categories – none. They have no remorse about their collusion in the destruction of the UK and much of the Western world. They don’t really feel fear even if physically threatened because they know society is increasingly rigged in their favour.
Hence their extreme hostility to someone like Trump who looks minded to, and crucially capable of turning it round against them.
That’s what the hell happened – a century plus of unremitting evil.
VP – I still want to hear the joke tho.
A lot of women get offended at rape jokes, but I try to reassure them they’re too old or fat.
On a similar note if you are a high profile sporting figure who expresses a serious interest in running for (and in all likelihood winning) high office as a populist in his fecked-up outpost of the eu you can be sure some unsubstantiated incident from many years ago will conveniently resurface.
There needs to be a statute of limitations for anything that is considered a crime (or even bad) at the time. Even more so for things that might eventually be considered a bad at some future date.
Greg Wallace – the Bert Hodges du jour.
I won’t miss seeing the ubiquitous Wallace, but I suspect there may be more to this story than one misjudged joke.
This does appear to be a full on cancellation, all the media is dog piling him now.
Television host Gregg Wallace has been accused of making “lesbian jokes constantly” by a woman who worked on a travel show with him.
The woman, who we are calling Anna, said he was “fascinated” by the fact she dated women and asked her the “logistics” of how it worked. She is one of a number of workers across a range of shows who came to BBC News with claims about the TV presenter.
When two women love each other very much, they roll around in some flour, and…
Basically he’s a barrow boy who’s been elevated to a position in which he’s got a level of power over women he probably never expected, and probably never had the social conditioning to handle. It sounds like he basically behaves crudely and boorishly, in a way you’d once have got away with down an old East End market (pre-modern mass immigration). But it’s not appropriate in the contexts he’s working in. He’d probably get away with it in some male only spaces, but it shows stupidity on his part if he hasn’t worked out by now that he’s not in the men’s bar at the golf club!
MJW
That’s a good point obviously. To me you’d have to be tone deaf not to see the way the wind is blowing. I work in a large multinational And the advice is always the same now – avoid ‘standard’ humour like it’s Bubonic plague. Of course if it’s ’permitted Jokes’ about ‘toxic masculinity’ or ‘Orange man bad’ then that’s fine but otherwise you become ‘persona non grata’.
However, would be very interesting if he suddenly found Palestinian heritage or converted to Islam. Would the same
Pile on apply? I think we know the answer.
Steve
As ever the day you don’t make a great point (predictive defaulted to ‘pint’ and I’m
Sure your pour a decent one as well ) is the day I pack the blog in.
However, I don’t want to claim offence on behalf of my gender. You just want people to not criminalise ordinary human interaction and that’s why anyone who advocates the abolition of the whole infrastructure around ‘hate crime’ including the EHRC and all the other elements ought to win an electoral landslide.
I feel like the US President played by Jack Nicholson in the Film ‘Mars Attacks’ –
I am wondering if I play an endless loop of MAGA tunes and ‘Let’s go Brandon’ it will have the same effect on these mindless harridans as the forties music does on the Aliens in that film
VP – thank you.
Marc Andreessen was talking about the American situation with Joe Rogan, he’s an interesting man. The way he describes it, this is the American glasnost. All of the lunatic stuff that emerged from university campuses and started infecting the real world circa the First Coming of Obama is suddenly not woke, it’s just broke. It’s like Trump broke an evil spell.
To quote the classic 2003 film, Old School:
“Sir, your seat belt seems to be broken. What do you recommend I do?’
“I recommend you stop being such a faggot.”
The early 2000’s were a happier, more relaxed time when you could tell jokes without being cancelled. We’ve got to go back.
A lot of women get offended at rape jokes,
Only certain rape jokes, of course. The vast majority of people, men and women, have no problem with prison rape jokes.
He’d probably get away with it in some male only spaces,
If only we had some male only spaces.
I’m pleased the mainstream media is taking a stand on politics in sport – https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/athletes-partake-in-trump-dance-trend-raising-questions-about-politics-in-sports-225436741618
Of course when I check the NBC website for critiques of players ‘taking the knee’ the search comes up empty..
The BiND
What haunt did Charlotte Proudperson get to ‘bend the knee’ and let in birds! The Garrick?
That’s one of the only positive aspects of militant Islam to be fair. Now if only the bastards would let you have a drink (as apparently the Saudi and Iranian religious police are renowned for in their private parties) then I might be on board…
Never thought much of GW. He always seemed like a bit of a twat. Now it seems he is in fact a bit of a pervy twat. One of those cases where you really want both parties to lose.
And its always a bad sign when someone has been married multiple times. Either they are the problem, or they are very bad at making good decisions, or both.
VP
Prior to the Kaepernick inspired kneeling/disrespecting the flag and anthem (some teams actually refused to come out of their locker rooms until the scary song had ended) there was the short-lived phenomenon of “Tebowing” named after the devoutly Christian quarterback who would kneel and pray for a few seconds after each touchdown.
I seem to remember the media and NFL had a great deal to say about it.
Kneeling for God – bad.
Kneeling for BLM – no praise is too high.