25 July 2023 , 14:04
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Loose Women star Brenda Edwards has hit out at Gregg Wallace for keeping her "up all night".
The singer and TV personality, 54, slammed the celeb chef after he shocked viewers with his latest Channel 4 programme. As part of a satirical documentary 'Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat' aired on Monday night, Gregg explored human meat.
In scripted and fictional scenes, Gregg met with human donors giving up their flesh and even sat with children being drafted in for harvesting. To top off the show, the TV chef even tucked into a 'human' steak.
The show didn't go down well with many viewers - especially the stomach churning scene. Brenda was one of the disgusted viewers as she slammed the programme whilst appearing on Loose Women on Tuesday.
Gregg divided viewers with his mockumentary (Channel 4)She confessed: "I came home after the show last night and it usually takes me a little time to unwind - I was so wound up after watching this 27-minute mockumentary.
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"Which I didn't realise [was fake] because it didn't at any point in time from when I started watching it say, 'This is a mockumentary' or 'This is not real'."
Brenda added: "And in a world where everything is fake news and you don't know what to believe nowadays, it really concerned me and I was up all night just thinking somebody might soon come and eat me'."
The studio erupted into laughter as co-star Janet Street-Porter quipped: "You should have phoned me, I could have told you it wasn't real" before Brenda added: "I'm a tasty morsel!"
Gregg alongside Michelin chef pal Michel Roux Jr had viewers squirming as they tucked into human steaks to sample the meat. In the scene, the two chefs sat at the table and then try to guess what kind of person the meat could have come from.
Describing one steak grown from lab-grown human meat as "a little bit stringy", Gregg didn't seem impressed before the pair tried another that they labelled as "tender" and "fattier".
One viewer tweeted: "This Channel 4 programme with Gregg Wallace and the geezer growing a human steak in a laboratory is really freaking me out." Another added: "What dystopian hell have we stumbled into with Gregg Wallace and Michel Roux Jr on me telly sampling lab-grown human steaks and trying to guess the people whose cells were donated for them by the flavour profiles."
Someone else fumed: "I'm not sure that #miraclemeat will have done @GreggAWallace any favours careerwise. Maybe set a new record for Ofcom complaints. My wife wanted it switched off after 5 mins, I imagine a lot did the same & didn't realise it was satire (which became more obvs as it went on)."
Amid the controversy, Gregg took to his own social media to defend the show. Sharing a promotional poster for the mockumentary, which showed him grinning in front of a giant slab of meat, Gregg wrote: “Thank you for watching. I really enjoyed my first ever acting job!”
As the backlash continued to rage online, however, he shared a second image from the show and added the simple caption: “Satire.”