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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Naomi Clarke

Stephen Fry says men on TV must consider their ‘banter’ amid Gregg Wallace row

Gregg Wallace has apologised for comments he made in a video (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

Stephen Fry has said men in television must consider who may be the “victim or stereotype” at the root of their “light banter” after Gregg Wallace apologised for his response to complaints made about his behaviour.

Author and comedian Fry said it was “unbelievably foolish” of Wallace to publish a video over the weekend in which he claimed the accusations, which include making “inappropriate sexual jokes”, came from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age”.

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