No and its just whoever 'reported' him saying it, so basically anyone can be sacked now for something they might have done years ago which no one cared enough about to report at the time, but it suits them now as they can get two fresh faces.....

[but it suits them now as they can get two fresh faces.....]


Yes, part of their master plan.

oh I think I might know who reported John now :laugh:

John, 59, is married to actress Lisa Faulkner, 53, with the couple presenting John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen on ITV. While John has remained mostly tight-lipped on his former co-star Wallace's behaviour on-set, his wife has spoken out about what she witnessed on the show. Last December, she claimed that the presenter made 'rude joke after rude joke' during her time on MasterChef.

Wallace was said to be deeply upset that John and Lisa didn't support him when allegations first surfaced, and has since unfollowed the couple on Instagram. But John and Lisa's bond doesn't appear to have been shaken by the disaster unfolding behind the scenes of MasterChef, as they focus on their own joint television project which recently launched its tenth series.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebri...-life-35557310

Wonder if ITV will keep him on....

It's dodgy ground for the BBC to be touching imo.

Sacking someone with no real evidence I mean.

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The BBC has fired
@JohnTorode1 because he allegedly made a racially insensitive comment in a
bar EIGHT YEARS ago, that he immediately apologised for, and now doesn’t
remember ever saying? Salem wants its witch trials back.

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Prey to gawd someone has some dirt on these people as want them off my tv screen pronto



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The story keeps changing Sky News said he made the comment at work..:umm2:

there have been all sorts of stories about Torode over the years, so this really isn't a new revelation. I think with these type of shows, the BBC has very little day to day involvement. All the work is contracted out to a production company. I honestly think the issue here is the BBC really messed up at the concert they were in full control of, so they are now saying to the public ..... look over there it's much more interesting

Nice but dim Tim has had his say

BBC director-general Tim Davie has condemned the “serious racist term” used by presenter John Torode, after it was announced his contract on MasterChef will not be renewed. Australian-born Torode, 59, started presenting MasterChef alongside Gregg Wallace in 2005.

On Monday night, Torode confirmed he was the subject of an allegation of using racist language that was upheld as part of a review carried out by law firm Lewis Silkin into the alleged behaviour of his co-presenter Wallace. Torode broke his silence on his sacking on social media this evening.

In an interview with BBC News on Tuesday, Davie said he saw the situation as an opportunity for the corporation to “reset”. He said he was not directly involved with the matter but was told about the recommendation not to renew Torode’s contract and was “happy that the team were taking action”

He went on: “It’s really important that we are taking this seriously. It’s a reset where we make sure that people are living up to the values we expect across the board.”

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...0cbd003a&ei=22

From what you have said on this forum you would of been sacked a long time ago

Also on Afghan thread


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…the BBC/Masterchef producers are the ones who look worst/awful in this as it’s taken them 7 years to take action on something that they deemed to be ‘extremely offensive’…

i think it went a bit like this .... the bbc bosses said we need to distract the public from what happened at glastonbury, give us some dirt on someone else to change the story

A £2 billion pound cock up !!
They should name and shame the person to blame for that huge data leak


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But bizarrely won't even give us what he allegedly even said.

Imo the BBC should be in trouble for damaging someone's reputation with zero evidence.

Hang on its says he said it "at work"

No, he said it, as I understand it, in a pub and "person I was speaking with did not believe that it was intended in a malicious way and that I apologised immediately afterwards".

In a pub isn't at work?

yeah I said this yesterday, Sky reported it as being at work, when it had previously been reported as a social situation, its a complete stitch up and apart from that he found out on social media he had been sacked, what a great way to treat long standing members of the 'BBC family'

at the end of the day, they aren't sacking him, they are just not renewing his contract, so the whole thing is being done to distract

Imo it makes these allegations worse.

Because at least if they were sacking him, it would make sense as to why they're trying to assassinate his character.

But not technically sacking him whilst accusing him of something without a shred of evidence is a low blow from the BBC.

They honestly need to provide some proof, otherwise heads should roll imo.

We have Defamation laws for a reason.

Torode has a long list of allegations against him in Australia, so he isn't a good guy in this. Him and Wallace were an unpleasant pair, but they brought in money for the BBC. Now, not so much so they are expendible.

Really, people need to stop being so easily led by distraction

What's Australia's case against Torode?

Women have complained about him there