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What's on the telly? MasterChef.
Sunderland Echo
|August 08, 2025
In that case, let's go out for dinner
How the mighty have fallen - this time last year who would have predicted that the reputations of both hosts of MasterChef, John Torode and Gregg Wallace, would be swimming in a pool of disgrace?
Wallace's downfall in particular was spectacular, surrounded by accusations of inappropriate and offensive behaviour.
With every protestation of innocence and every attempt at justification, Wallace dug himself in deeper.
Firstly, it was 'middle-class women of a certain age' who could not take a joke. I am a working-class woman of a certain age and I do not like sexual innuendo and crudity. That's why I do not watch Carry On films.
When that went down like hot jelly, he blamed his newly-diagnosed autism, angering thousands who live with the condition.
Torode was sacked for making, allegedly, the worst of racial remarks. He denies it ever happened.
The latest series was filmed before any of this came to light and whether to screen it at all was debated.
The BBC was damned if it did, damned if it did not.
It did, editing out as much of Wallace and Torode as it could.
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