Exclusive: TV star is said to have behaved inappropriately towards journalist he met at awards ceremony
Gregg Wallace, photographed here in June 2009, is said to have behaved in a ‘creepy’ way towards a young female reporter at the Grocer magazine’s awards ceremony in May 2009.Gregg Wallace, photographed here in June 2009, is said to have behaved in a ‘creepy’ way towards a young female reporter at the Grocer magazine’s awards ceremony in May 2009.
When they returned to their separate tables to taste food, she said she had received a text message from Wallace. “It said: ‘All right, gorgeous’ and then something about, ‘I like the way you’re eating that’ and, ‘fancy a snog? Gregg’.” For the rest of the event, she said she had tried her best to avoid him, “but obviously at that point he had my number, and then it was really a series of weeks that I was still getting text messages and voicemails, a lot of voicemails, all of which had these innuendoes about food and tasting and eating”.
The former journalist said she had not responded to any of his messages after that night, but had felt unable to know how to ask him to stop, given that he was significantly older and a celebrity. The Guardian spoke to other former colleagues of the young reporter, who said Wallace’s behaviour had been well known at the time. One said he recalled the reporter playing one of the voicemails in the office the next day and said: “He’d left a bunch of quite creepy voicemails, and not just one either.”
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