Kirstie Allsopp doubled down on her remarks about Gregg Wallace, defending her silence over allegations of inappropriate behavior during filming. She faced backlash from trolls and critics, including Leilani Dowding.
Kirstie Allsopp doubled down on her remarks about Gregg Wallace as she lashed out at trolls who asked why she'd 'stayed silent for so long'.
Allsopp responded: 'He said it in the Green Room. It was not on camera. No wonder Wallace feels empowered to drill down, the replies on this are incredible.' She added in separate tweet: 'Why say nothing? Because you feel, in no particular order, embarrassed, a prude, shocked, waiting for a male colleague to call him out, not wanting to “rock the boat”, thinking it’s better to plough on with the day, assuming you misheard/misunderstood or just don’t get the joke.'
Another asked why she waited to speak out instead of 'seeing a show producer immediately', to which she replied: 'Because some women braver & better than me did complain, and I wanted to come out in support of them. Which was clearly needed given GW’s comments today on Instagram.' After being criticised by Dowding, Allsopp hit back: 'No wonder Wallace feels empowered to drill down, the replies on this are incredible'
A former culture secretary said the controversy was a test for the whole BBC system and said the apparent lack of curiosity was depressing. A total of 13 people complained about Wallace's conduct while working with him over a 17-year period across five shows, from 2005 to 2022, the BBC revealed Celebrity MasterChef winner Emma Kennedy told The Sunday Times she may have seen him inappropriately touch a camera assistant during a shoot for the 2012 final. She said: ‘The photographer had a young female assistant and she bent over in front of me. Gregg went over and went “Corr!” with his hands over her a**e.’
According to The Sunday Times, BBC executive Kate Phillips responded by raising concerns that Wallace’s behaviour was ‘unacceptable and cannot continue’. The following year he was warned about his behaviour on the quiz show Impossible Celebrities amid allegations of ‘inappropriate sexual comments’. On Sunday, she told the Mail: ‘TV has a sexism, racism and classism issue, but there is no consistent HR a lot of time –those you can directly complain to have a vested interest to not rock the boat.
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