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Toxic men and toxic politics: the problem with Gregg Wallace and Nigel Farage

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace faces a stream of allegations about inappropriate behaviour at work, Nish and Coco take on the entertainment industry’s toxic culture. Nish gives an insider’s view of why change is long overdue in an industry that enables massive egos, bad behaviour, even abuse. And Coco argues that to take women’s safety seriously we need to start with zero tolerance on bullying banter.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Cocoa Khan. And I'm Nish Kumar. This week, Reform UK is on the rise. Stama's doing a reboot, but can Labour see off the threat of the far right?

0:12.6

And Greg Wallace eats humble pie, but there's a bigger issue here. Is the entertainment industry actually just a rogue employer?

0:20.6

Plus, out of work and out of ideas, how do we solve the UK's youth unemployment crisis?

0:29.5

So, Coco, last week we sat here talking about literally matters of life and death, the assisted dying bill.

0:35.1

It passed after a really passionate and moving debate.

0:38.4

It's a huge moment in the history of this country. This week, though, it's back to business as usual.

0:43.3

With Stama's revamp, an image I cannot erase from my mind. Keir Stahmer's sort of getting a glow up.

0:49.9

But also, a darker image, a much bleaker one, is Greg Wallace striding around the workplace,

0:56.6

wearing nothing but a sock, allegedly.

0:58.8

Yeah, so if you haven't seen it,

1:01.4

the news is being dominated by this story of Greg Wallace,

1:04.7

stepping down from presenting Master Chef.

1:07.1

13 people and counting have made complaints

1:09.8

about his sexualised jokes and inappropriate behaviour.

1:13.0

Now there's allegations of groping too.

1:15.3

Greg Wallace is, look, he's quite easy to laugh at.

1:18.8

I think we can all agree on that.

1:20.6

But there's actually some really serious issues here.

1:23.1

And it's all part of this problem of women's complaints not being listened to.

1:27.6

Wallace's lawyers have said it is entirely false that he engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature

1:32.7

and Wallace initially came out swinging at his critics.

1:36.3

Now, in the newspaper, I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age just from Celebrity MasterChef.

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