Cancelling Gregg Wallace for his parenting over one sentence proves how nonsensical cancel culture truly is: Analysis

However, the woke brigade has decided to rip the chef apart. Hours after publication, they’d nabbed a small sentence in the piece and twisted it into something nasty.

Unsurprisingly mentioning his five-year-old son in his entry, Wallace alluded to the fact he feels like a better dad now he’s older, but admitted he had initial doubts about having a child later in life, something many men and women can likely relate to.

“I’m a much better father now I’m older, although another child isn’t something that I would have chosen at my age,” he confessed before continuing: “I was always very honest with Anna, but it’s what she wanted and I love her.

“I just requested two things – that we had help in the house (so her mum moved in), and secondly that we had at least one week a year when we holidayed just the two of us.”

Lo and behold, the cancel culture team was out in full force to claim Wallace clearly “doesn’t want” his beloved child, with many jumping on the fact the youngster has autism and this must be the reason Wallace “resents his child”.

Storming to their X accounts, a swarm of keyboard warriors soon had the MasterChef star trending as they launched a verbal onslaught at him which snowballed as others eagerly jumped on the bandwagon, probably without reading the article in question.

We’ve seen it over and over again in recent years, a famous person making an ill-thought-out remark, an honest comment or even trying to articulate a valid argument, only to be met with fury by those demanding to control who gets to keep their jobs and who doesn’t.

While being held to account is important and those in the public eye shouldn’t be able to make outrageous remarks without expecting some kind of public response and potential consequences, the chant for people to be essentially erased from screens, books and minds over harmless statements has left nobody safe.

The tongue-in-cheek column isn’t supposed to spark debate, rather than provide an interesting piece of escapism for readers to glance an eye over while enjoying their Sunday breakfast before scrolling away to the latest tragedy unfolding in the world.

Instead though, Wallace found himself having to justify his remarks this week, tearfully taking to social media to argue how much he loves his son.

He confessed: “I’m almost going to cry over this – people saying that Sid was unwanted. It took us two years to conceive with Sid. Two years.”

Worse still is the immediate assumption Wallace is being prejudiced about his child due to his disability, which he never even alluded to in the piece in question.