Celebrity MasterChef winner Nadia Sawalha slams Gregg Wallace after he ‘digs hole for himself’
CELEBRITY MasterChef winner Nadia Sawalha has slammed Gregg Wallace after he ‘digs a hole for himself’.
The Loose Women personality won the starry edition of the long-running BBC One cooking competition in 2007.
In a new video rant, Nadia, 60, has hit out the MasterChef star as she thinks that there is a “problem” amongst men of his generation.
The former EastEnders actress thinks that many of his contemporaries become somewhat overconfident.
She also doesn’t think that women express how they are truly feel until they are in a safe place such as in their own homes.
The former Benidorm personality often takes to her own YouTube channel with husband Mark Adderley, 54, to discuss hot topics.
In the latest episode, she fumed: “Everything about what Gregg says in all these stories is the problem, the problem that we have.
“First of all you get to an age where you’re like ‘do you know what? I don’t have to take this s*** anymore.
“You get to a position where you realise you don’t have to laugh at jokes that leave you feeling uncomfortable.
“You don’t have to just pretend that something didn’t happen to keep the peace.
“And actually, Gregg what I feel sad about this is, is that he has no idea how those younger women actually feel.
“I’m sorry to say, but men of this age, you’ve got no idea what we are thinking about you really. You’ve got no idea.
“You think that you are striving through life and everybody thinks you are rather nice, but guess what! Most of them are going home going ‘oh gd that guy! I just can’t take one more of those jokes. I just can’t take one more of him standing a bit too close.
“We have two daughters, 21 and 17 and when they come home after having to put up with lude comments and creepiness in clubs, it’s always people, men of a certain age and it’s THAT age!
“Because you think you’ve got yourself fit and you’ve done your press ups and you think you’re quite hot and you think that everybody really does fancy you, really these young girls because they’re giggling.
Nadia also believes that people that are on-screen have somewhat of a duty to speak up if they see something that “isn’t right.”
“Also there is a power problem here. It happens in offices, it happens in all walks of life. But in showbusiness, there is a hierarchy,” she explained.
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Regular MasterChef host Gregg Wallace is currently the subject of a probe after an investigation was launched into his alleged misconduct over a number of years.
Gregg has been accused of making sexual remarks to 13 colleagues including Beeb anchor Kirsty Wark – accusations he denies.
The 60-year-old has now stepped away from the BBC show while historical misconduct allegations against him are investigated.
Yet the former greengrocer spoke out on social media to blast the “women of a certain age” who he claimed were behind the allegations.
The cooking show’s production company, Banijay UK, has said law firm Lewis Silkin would lead the investigation into Wallace’s alleged misconduct.
“That’s why I always say, if you’re on-screen and you see something that you think isn’t right, you should speak up.
“If you see a bit of bullying from another presenter, a runner or a researcher having to put up with too many of those jokes, you bloody speak up.
“There’s no way that runner, that researcher, that assistant producer, the girl that gets you your tea, the stylist, the makeup artist, they ain’t gonna say a thing because the hierarchy is rigid and you don’t complain.”
At the beginning of the long video, she admitted that she never personally saw or experienced some of the reported behaviour herself.
Everything about what Gregg says in all these stories is the problem,
Nadia on her YouTube channel
However, Nadia still slammed the former judge when she admitted that she was left “horrified” by his comments and even went as far to say that the reports were not “surprising”.
“When I saw his stories at the weekend, to be frank I was horrified by what he said,” she exclaimed.
“I had never seen that or heard that myself, I’m never surprised when I hear stories.
“I remember that everything is an allegation, we have no idea whether there was a cover up, how it was all [done] we just don’t know because everything is now rumour isn’t it.
Celebrity Masterchef Previous Winners
The previous Celebrity Masterchef winners so far in the show
2023 – Singer Wynne Evans
2022 – Radio Presenter Lisa Snowdon
2021 – Gold-medal-winning Paralympian Kadeena Cox
2020 – YouTube star Riyadh Khalaf
2019 – Olympian Greg Rutherford
2018 – Actor John Partridge
2017 – Television presenter Angellica Bell
2016 – Real Hustle star Alexis Conran
2015 – Pussycat doll Kimberly Wyatt
2014 – Actress Sophie Thompson
2013 – Comedian and actor Ade Edmondson
2012 – Actress Emma Kennedy
2011 – Former England rugby captain Phil Vickery
2010 – Actress and presenter Lisa Faulkner
2009 – Presenter Jayne Middlemiss
2008 – Singer and actress Liz McClarnon
2007 – Actress and presenter Nadia Sawalha
2006 – Rugby star Matt Dawson
She added: “I am 100 percent, I always believe, and maybe that’s wrong of me, but I believe women first, I don’t care I just do because I know the way the world is tipped.
“In a court of law you are innocent until proven guilty. But with these numbers, I really can’t bear it when people say things like ‘oh, why have you taken so long?’ I’m just not interested in any of that.
“It’s like my sister said when she came in, ‘talk about digging a hole for yourself’. He’s dug two holes for himself she said.”