MasterChef contestant Aggie Mackenzie says Greg Wallace was ‘allowed to tell smutty jokes’ during filming

Ex MasterChef star Aggie Mackenzie claims Gregg Wallace told 'smutty' jokesSource: Good Morning Britain

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00:00So, Aggie, back in 2011, you were on Masterchef,

00:05same year, same series as Kirstie Walk.

00:08She said that there had been sexualised jokes,

00:12she alleged, during the filming of that show,

00:15said the comments were really, really in the wrong place

00:18and made people uncomfortable.

00:22Did you witness the same stuff?

00:23Yes, I agree with everything Kirstie says.

00:27Those jokes weren't actually directed at me,

00:31but the jokes were always smutty.

00:35They were endless.

00:36It was as if Greg is some sort of dinosaur who just

00:40can't read the room and seemed to be

00:44allowed to carry on in this way.

00:46And I actually can't listen to his voice now.

00:49It just kind of triggers something in me.

00:51It's horrible, actually.

00:53Do you consider yourself, I mean, one of those people

00:57that Greg is now taking aim at, middle-class woman

00:59of a certain age?

01:00Oh, again, this illustrates how he just

01:03has no insight or understanding of how he behaves.

01:08He just can't, he just doesn't get it.

01:12He's been allowed to carry on in his own sweet way

01:16for many, many years.

01:17And it's now come to the stage where he's lost his job.

01:22He didn't need to lose his job.

01:24He could have remedied his behavior.

01:28But I don't think he was actually

01:30capable of doing that, his personality.

01:33I mean, he's partly saying it's your problem

01:35and all these middle-aged women, because you don't get it.

01:38Yes, he's not going to change.

01:4010 years ago, it was OK to tell these kind of jokes.

01:45I mean, was it funny?

01:46It never was OK.

01:48No, not funny at all.

01:49I think, as far as I can see, his worst crime

01:53was being really, really boring, actually,

01:57and having to listen to all this stuff, this nonsense.

02:01It was as if he didn't know how to hold a conversation,

02:05and so he had to fill up the space with nonsense.

02:08I don't think he knew how to talk to anybody.