Carry On Gemma

So I wrote last week about Greg Wallace and this week we have John Torode saying complaints about him using racist language were upheld. The BBC then sacked him.  Fine. Then we have the reports saying he was just singing along with a song that had the N**** word in it.  Well, I have no issue with that because it a lyric in a song.   Oh wait, there is  an issue with that because he's not black. It's still a lyric in a song though and John Torode can sing it like I can, if I want (I don't because that isn't my music). So, I felt like sticking up for him at that point. Yet it seems he's used it to another member of staff and it's one of nine complaints upheld against him. Yet again, the BBC.

I don't really consider mental health as any sort of excuse for committing a crime.  I have suffered poor mental health for over twenty years and I have never used it as an excuse for anything, never mind trying to push away allegations of being a dirty bastard by saying I'm autistic.  Yet this is exactly what Gregg Wallace is trying to do now. Now that the BBC no longer wants to fund him because of his behaviour, he's blaming it on being autistic.  As if he thinks that thousands of autistic people are going to come out and say 'yes Gregg, we forgive you because being autistic is an excuse for being a pervy bastard.' It is not.  And neither is any form of mental health he might want to come up with.  He is a "wrong'un" and that terminology crosses all dialectics across the UK.   This guy has tried to turn his perverted behaviour into something that he thinks should be considered normal because he said he couldn't wear tight underwear.  I'm not ...