This week, Jacki and Lyle discuss the latest developments in the Gregg Wallace scandal. Wallace, who last week 'stepped aside' from his presenting duties on popular cooking programme Masterchef after a BBC News investigation revealed a string of allegations of inappropriate sexual comments and inappropriate behaviour against him, released a statement on Sunday where he hit back at the allegations, saying they had come from a 'handful of middle-class women of a certain age'. He apologised the following day, stating that he 'wasn't in a good head space' when he posted the statement. Fresh allegations have since emerged, with Melanie Sykes claiming an encounter with Wallace made her quit the TV industry, his former ghostwriter Shannon Kyle claiming he made 'revolting' and 'sickening' sexualised suggestions to her and touched her inappropriately, and other woman coming forward with their own allegations of Wallace having toucher or groped them during various altercations. Downing Street also responded to Wallace's statement on Sunday by stating that they found his comments to be 'inappropriate and misogynistic', and the BBC has sinced pulled its Masterchef Christmas specials as a result of the ongoing allegations against him. Jacki and Lyle get straight to it this week, with Jacki referencing the advice she offered during last week's episode as an example to Wallace and anyone else embroiled in a scandal such as this, later lamenting the fact that Wallace did the complete opposite of this by broadcasting not one but two statements within 24 hours of each other earlier this week. Jacki also outlines how dangerous it is that Wallace was allowed to get away with this sort of behaviour for as long as he did, before Lyle makes an impassioned point about people who defend Wallace by attacking what many refer to as 'woke' culture and commentary. He outlines that these individuals need to stop burying their heads in the sand and positing the belief that these circumstances are in any way 'new' or due to an increasingly 'woke' population, but that they have in fact been occurring for decades and it is only now that the victims of such behaviour feel confident and supported enough to speak out. Jacki and Lyle revel in being referred to as 'the youth of today' in what is a highly charged episode!

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