Gregg Said.

Well I never had former Masterchef host (and most popular art piece on my Redbubble shop, no really) Gregg Wallace down as the person to chuck Autistics under the bus for the sake of his career on my 2025 'Tism bingo card but there you go.

And how did we get to this heady point? 

Well, way back in late 2024 a series of allegations of inappropriate behaviour (dating back to at least 2012) were made against the former jolly greengrocer by a number of female contestants.

His original defence was, um interesting to say the least: 

Which as you can imagine went down well with 51% of the population, luckily tho' when that didn't work he at least he listened to this bit of advice from his 'friends':

 

 

Realising that the accusations weren't going to go away Gregg doubled down in November '24 and got those same 'friends' to announce that his inability to keep his penis in his trousers was due to him being Autistic.

And even better, according to them, he was never tested because he feels guilty that he may have passed down the neurological and developmental disorder to his four-year son Sid, who is severely autistic and non-verbal.

Feeble excuses for abusing women AND guilt tripping (because Autism is a tragedy that should be pitied obviously.) in one sentence....amazing. 

And that's where we thought the story would end.

But no!

You see, this week Gregg issued this statement:

 

Ignoring the obvious (it's not 'your neurodiversity, it's 'your neurodivergence' but seriously just say Autism) this just strikes me as a (fairly sad) man not only clutching at (any) straws available to save his career when he realised that unlike in the 70s women actually get very vocal if you call them 'dolly birds' or pinch their bums but also using his son's diagnosis (and his son's Autistic traits)as an excuse. 

And what do I mean by this?

A headline from yesterday:

 

Well as we know, lots of Autistic kids (and adults but we'll get to that later) hate itchy clothes and labels and quite honestly prefer to bomb about the house naked, as a 4 year old my parents told me I couldn't go out to play in the sun without my wellies and a hat so would often run out the house wearing only those items.

You see, as I got older I realised that this was inappropriate. 

And before anyone jumps in and says but Gregg didn't get his diagnosis till adulthood how would he know what's what?

Well I wasn't diagnosed till my 40s and can safely say that I never stripped naked, put a sock on my cock and waved it around in front of my female co-workers before - or after - finding out I'm Autistic.

Maybe that means I'm obviously the wrong type of Autistic.

Or maybe, just maybe, Gregg is basing his view of being Autistic on the behaviour and traits of his child and using that as an excuse, rather than tell the truth which is if he is actually Autistic then fair enough but realise that being an utter misogynistic arse around women has f#ck all to do with your diagnosis.

It means you're actually just a sexist shitebag.

So f*cking own it.