BBC battles to contain MasterChef UK scandal as regulator flags Gaza doco probe

The BBC on trial

It’s all about the UK’s public broadcaster today - The BBC. It’s had a shocker of a week, mitigated only by Gary O’Donoghue’s spellbinding interview with Donald Trump, which the Matts discuss in the first part of today’s pod. But then things turn south. Two damning reports - one into Gregg Wallace and one into […]

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BBC battles to contain MasterChef UK scandal as regulator flags Gaza doco probe

The same day a report upheld dozens of allegations against MasterChef UK host Gregg Wallace, the BBC found itself in strife over another issue.

BBC Annual Report warns of Big Tech threat; DG says Gaza “most challenging editorial issue”

The corporation has published its Annual Report, just 24 hours after a separate investigation into “inappropriate behaviour” by MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace had upheld more than half of the allegations against him. On the same day, Ofcom announced it was launching its own investigation into a Gaza documentary that broke BBC editorial guidelines by using the child of a Hamas official as its narrator. The BBC was unaware this was the case be…