Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the allegations from Gregg Wallace's ghostwriter

Gregg Wallace's ghostwriter is the latest person to come forward with sexual harassment allegations concerning the MasterChef presenter.

Shannon Kyle, the ghostwriter behind Wallace's 2012 autobiography, accused him of inappropriate conduct and touching while she worked on Life On A Plate.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Kyle originally signed an NDA - but broke the contract because she felt it was important to bring this behaviour to light.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Enda Brady joins me. Now, Hello, Inda.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, Andrew, just chuckling along here in my kitchen in Oxfordshire.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Very funny, all right, now, Master Saif Greg Wallace a
man who's discovered that he's actually in the twenty first
century and isn't coping very well.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
What is the latest?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
More allegations today. This has been going on now full
seven days of front page news here the Master Chef
co host. So the very latest is that the lady
who ghost wrote his biography for him, Life on a Plate,
she has come out today, breaking a non disclosure agreement
because she felt it was important. And she says that

(00:41):
she's accusing him of sexually harassing her while she was
writing the book, various different incidents, relentless talk about his
sex life and women girlfriends. And then she says that
I'm and he was wearing a bathrobe and she said
at one point he dropped the bathrobe and said, oh,

(01:01):
my trousers are just behind you there, and she said
it just went on and on and on, and she
lost the plot. Had completely enough of this guy pinching her,
bomb touching her. Leg The allegations keep coming. Now he's
denying any inappropriate what behavior whatsoever. But it's interesting that
his Australian co host, John Tyroad, who is a very

(01:24):
good chef, he has now come out with a statement
on Instagram. A lot of contestants are saying, well, hang on,
John Tiuroad witnessed all of this and we haven't heard
a word from him yet. He's come out and said
that he's been away filming Master Chef overseas this week. However,
he finds it truly upsetting, as the phrase of the
word used by his co host, if any of the
people on Master Chef or people around them had an

(01:47):
awful experience, so the co host effectively throwing Wallace under
the bus.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, yeah, okay, let's move on to more positive things,
the possibility of David Bigan getting a knighthood.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
So the various newspapers here today have been very well
point out that Beckham was invited to the reception the
other day, the state banquet for the Emir of Katar,
David attended with his wife Victoria, and they point out
this is the fifth occasion in a few months this
year that David has been at the beck and call
of the royals. Various different charitable functions, the King's Foundation,

(02:22):
lots of work Ragner with the King. Apparently they share
a love of bee keeping, of all things. I would
imagine King Charles would not know Manchester United from Manchester
City if I'm Frank. So they're not talking about soccer,
but apparently they can. It's a football fan famously an
aston Villa fan. There is a relationship there as well,

(02:45):
and the papers are pointing out that you know what
people are forgetting?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Not that many years ago there was a leaked email
from Beckham with lots of expletives in it, ranting about
what does he have to beeping do to get a knighthood? Well,
hears do lots of charity work, turn up to the functions,
beck and call no pun intended of the royals. But
don't be surprised if in the King's News year's honors

(03:09):
list it is a rise Sir David.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes, well, obviously the thing he had to do was
keep some bees. But yeah, when I think to the
Olympic campaign, when you've got the Olympics of London and
all that, he was front and center of that whole thing,
and I think he does deserve it. He has been
a faithful servant of your country. Do we have enough
time to talk about the great Guinness drought of twenty
twenty four.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, honestly, I don't know if this is a genius
marketing strategy to put out a press release and brief
the media that they might run out of Guinness this Christmas,
but that is apparently what's happening. Pubs in the UK
have been told to limit their orders, that there is
only so much to go around. Off the back of
the autumn rugby internationals heavily sponsored by Guinness, Guinness has
been everywhere. They're working with a lot of influencers. They

(03:52):
reckon Guinness consumption in the last quarter is up twenty percent,
so there may well be a shortage of Guinness in England.
This Chrismus delighted to say I'm going back to County
Wexford in Ireland where we will live on it the vers.
The rivers in Wexford pretty much run and the whole
country is powered by stout, so bring it on.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Good stuff into Brady.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I thank you so much for more from hither Duplessy
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