{"id":61687,"date":"2025-04-30T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61687\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:40:08","slug":"vanessa-feltz-slaps-down-gregg-wallace-in-fiery-clash-over-bbc-exit-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/61687\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Feltz slaps down Gregg Wallace in fiery clash over BBC exit | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s sad to hear that Gregg Wallace<\/a> felt suicidal after what he called a \u201chandful of middle class women of a certain age\u201d came forward with complaints about his conduct. He is right to be surprised that I added my contribution to the torrent.<\/p>\n

I was surprised myself. I don\u2019t know Gregg well, but he\u2019d been an affable guest on my radio show, and we\u2019d bumped into each other on This Morning.<\/p>\n

I thought I had nothing to add to the testimonies against him until I spoke to a former male colleague and friend I have trusted for 15 years, and mentioned Kirstie Allsopp\u2019s claim that Wallace had described a sexual act he had enjoyed with his wife to the horror of his captive audience. Wallace has said of the claims \u201cthey\u2019re not all true.\u201d<\/p>\n

My colleague said: \u201cThat\u2019s exactly what happened to me when I was a producer at the BBC<\/a>. I was asked to collect Gregg Wallace from the foyer at Broadcasting House and escort him to the studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the lift he suddenly described a graphic sexual act he said he had enjoyed with his girlfriend. There was a young woman in the lift. She looked shaken and I was pretty disgusted too. I couldn\u2019t say anything because I was delivering Wallace to participate in a show and there\u2019d have been hell to pay if I\u2019d upset him on the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

My friend gave chapter, verse, dates and echoed what Kirstie Allsopp had said.<\/p>\n

Now Gregg Wallace says aggrievedly: \u201cVanessa Feltz had a story from a friend of hers saying she overheard me saying something in a lift.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gregg, it was a he, not a she. You probably remember him. He\u2019s a sportsman. He didn\u2019t \u201coverhear\u201d it. You said it to him. I wasn\u2019t searching for a story about your conduct. It found me organically. Making it public had nothing to do with \u201cnot liking you\u201d at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s sad to hear that Gregg Wallace felt suicidal after what he called a \u201chandful of middle class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15,5668,31843,31841,31840,31842],"class_list":{"0":"post-61687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-vanessa-feltz","12":"tag-vanessa-feltz-gregg-wallace","13":"tag-vanessa-feltz-latest","14":"tag-vanessa-feltz-news","15":"tag-vanessa-feltz-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114424369878293705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}