Stephen Fry hits out at Gregg Wallace over ‘middle-class women’ comment: ‘These women felt truly hurt’

Stephen Fry says Gregg Wallace 'foolish' for making 'middle-class women' comment Source: Sky News

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00:00It was obviously unbelievably foolish of Greg Wallis to make that video over the weekend.

00:05It really showed that he simply wasn't understanding. And, you know, even if he

00:10felt that he'd been misunderstood himself, he could surely see that there were some

00:14women there who were truly hurt and had felt not listened to, and that he should,

00:20first of all, address that. But, you know, who knows? He's now probably being rightly,

00:27I suppose, advised by lawyers. Yes, I don't know him. I met him once. We were both guests at a

00:33cricket match, and that was, you know, just paying attention to what was going on on the green.

00:39But, yeah, it's obviously some sort of pressure has built up, and now it's,

00:46once it starts getting out, as is the way of the media, as we know, once a story

00:51gathers momentum, it gallops and gallops faster and faster.