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.