A Bake Off legend says Gregg Wallace “shouldn’t be cancelled”.
Dame Prue Leith has come to the defence of Gregg Wallace, insisting he shouldn’t be sacked amidst allegations about his behaviour. The MasterChef judge recently stepped back from his role during an investigation into complaints about his behaviour on set.
Several staff members and former contestants have alleged that Wallace made them feel uneasy during filming. The TV host apologised this week for suggesting complaints about his behaviour were from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age,” adding he will now “take some time out”.
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Facing various allegations including making “inappropriate sexual jokes”, Wallace posted an apology video on his Instagram stories on Monday. His legal team previously stated it was “entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature” and Wallace himself has denied all allegations.
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Great British Bake Off’s Dame Prue has voiced her opinion on the matter, stating that while he shouldn’t be sacked, producers and TV bosses should enforce strict behavioural guidelines for presenters at work.
Speaking to Times Radio, the 84 year old culinary queen said: “I’m a great believer in due process… He should just stay off social media because he’s just digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole because he’s too insensitive to understand how offensive it is, but that’s his problem, that he’s insensitive. He hasn’t, that I can see, disobeyed the law,” reports the Liverpool Echo.
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The Great British Bake Off star added: “I don’t believe people should be cancelled or sacked. I can see why you would ask somebody to step aside while they investigate things, which I suppose is what they’re doing. But I think the tragedy in this is that I bet you Gregg has no idea what he’s done wrong.”
However, Dame Prue did concede that TV chiefs “should be tougher on on-screen talent.”
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