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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the John Torode allegations, future of the latest Masterchef UK season · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: To Kevin Gray from the UK. Good moning to you,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin either Andrew Well fresh from the Greg wall Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look at my junk controversy Mastership UK. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a new scandal, yep.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid it does, plunging the show into absolute chaos
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  Speaker 2: because the series has already been filmed with both Greg
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  Speaker 2: Wallace but also John to Road Because today Juron Troad
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  Speaker 2: has been sacked as the Master Chef presenter. It was
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  Speaker 2: an allegation against him in what it was said that
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  Speaker 2: he had used an extremely offensive racist term. Now this
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  Speaker 2: allegation was upheld, although John to Road, the TV chefer,
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  Speaker 2: said he had no recollection of the incident and he
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  Speaker 2: said I do not believe that it happened. However, the
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  Speaker 2: show's production company says it and the BBC agreed that
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  Speaker 2: his contract on the show will not be renewed. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: after these allegations, dozens of allegations against Greg Wallace, him
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  Speaker 2: being sacked. Now John to Road apparently being offered to
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  Speaker 2: told by bosses to resign he refused, has now been
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  Speaker 2: sacked as well. This is the latest in a long
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  Speaker 2: line of controversies at the BBC, including the Bob Villains
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  Speaker 2: set at Glastonbury where they were leading Chance of Death
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  Speaker 2: Death to the IDF and the BBC didn't pull the plug.
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  Speaker 2: And also a Garza documentary that they didn't realize was
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  Speaker 2: actually hosted by the son of somebody in Hammers. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid dark days at the BBC. They've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of patching up to do.
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  Speaker 1: What are they going to do with the Master chif
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  Speaker 1: UK TV series. It's all in the cairn. They've filmed
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  Speaker 1: it with Deode and Wallace. Are they just not going
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  Speaker 1: to show it? Is this a glorious waste of money?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what some people are demanding. But on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, of course, you know a lot of those
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  Speaker 2: amateur chefs that really worked hard to get there. Imagine
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  Speaker 2: if you won it and then found ouctually that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to be aired, or there wasn't even going
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  Speaker 2: to be mentioned that you'd won it. They's talk about
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  Speaker 2: perhaps replacing them with voiceovers or but it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be almost impossible to do that. If they show it,
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  Speaker 2: people are going to be up in arms. If they
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  Speaker 2: don't show it, people are going to be up in arms.
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  Speaker 2: Either way. I advise them to make a decision and
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  Speaker 2: make it quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Now you remember the story of that tree, the sycamore
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  Speaker 1: get tree. This is a tree that was in between
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  Speaker 1: two hillicks and you could take a photograph and that
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  Speaker 1: looked beautiful. Was in northeast England and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: monters winn cut it down. What's happened to them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they were described in court as taking
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  Speaker 2: moronic action, and I think most people would agree. A
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  Speaker 2: tree that was really a symbol of romance for so many,
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  Speaker 2: was famous in Hollywood. If you've ever seen it, you'll
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  Speaker 2: realize that. Of course it just looked stunning, and two
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  Speaker 2: men set out one night in September and cut it down.
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  Speaker 2: Why we still don't know, but morons, I think most
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  Speaker 2: people would agree as a good adjective. One was age
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine and the other thirty two, both from Cumbria
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  Speaker 2: in the northwest of England, convicted of criminal damage after
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  Speaker 2: filming themselves using a chainsaw to illegally fell the landmark
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  Speaker 2: tree right on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, causing immense damage.
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  Speaker 2: Now today they have been jailed for four years and
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  Speaker 2: three months in what the judge thought was probably just
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  Speaker 2: sheer bravado the judge rejecting a claim of drunken stupidity
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  Speaker 2: and saying it was done for some sort of a thrill.
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  Speaker 1: What a thrill exactly? And I guess when they go
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  Speaker 1: to prison they can be put on the garden detail
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  Speaker 1: for four years.
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  Speaker 2: Not very good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thank you Gavin Gray from the UK.
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