'I hate the cancel culture more than I hate Wallace'
Daily Express|December 05, 2024
FULL disclosure. I think Gregg Wallace is a crude, misogynistic, dummy from another age - an age where men wanted to be seen out with good-looking women because it boosted their egos, made them look good.
CAROLE MALONE Express columnist
'I hate the cancel culture more than I hate Wallace'

Years ago when I came across him it was clear he had no idea how to treat or talk to women, so he made stupid, unfunny jokes.

He even asked me once if I thought women fancied him because he was famous.

I thought it was a stupid question from a stupid man whose vanity and arrogance made him think women were falling at his feet because he was such a fantastically wonderful person.

So yes, I disabused him of that notion and told him his fame was absolutely the reason women were after him because there was clearly nothing else that could have attracted them.

He didn't get the joke. But everyone else around us did - and laughed. I said what I said because I wanted to make him feel uncomfortable in the way his silly jokes made others - especially women - feel uncomfortable.

All this was when he was a relatively minor celebrity, in the days before he was a household name.

And I'm guessing the fame and power that goes with his current status has made him even more arrogant and vile.

That said, I'm starting to feel a bit uncomfortable about the nationwide pile-on and the pressure to have Wallace obliterated from the face of the earth.

The media frenzy to see him utterly destroyed is every bit as ugly as what Wallace has been accused of.

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