TOM UTLEY: John Torode. Gregg Wallace. Wynne Evans. How long until my pub chums and I are the next chaps of a certain vintage to be hauled before the court of political correctness?

TOM UTLEY: John Torode. Gregg Wallace. Wynne Evans.

How long until my pub chums and I are the next chaps of a certain vintage to be hauled before the court of political correctness? By Tom Utley For The Daily Mail Published: 18:29 EDT, 17 October 2024 | Updated: 18:30 EDT, 17 October 2024 e-mail View comments Spare a thought for famous men of a certain age who find themselves totally at sea in the woke modern world. One after another over recent days, those brought up in the era of Benny Hill, the Carry On films and Till Death Us Do Part have fallen foul of today's fashionable rules governing acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. Take John Torode , 59, the MasterChef presenter, who has been tried and convicted in the court of social media for cracking a puerile joke while he was plating up toad in the hole on Tuesday's edition of the ITV breakfast show, This Morning.

Those of a sensitive disposition are advised to turn the page now, because I'm about to repeat it verbatim. As he stood beside the show's presenter, he said: 'I never thought I'd say to Cat Deeley : 'Here's a little sausage for you, darling.'' Take John Torode , 59, the MasterChef presenter, who has been tried and convicted in the court of social media for cracking a puerile joke Ms Deeley got her reaction exactly right, she turned to the camera and pulled a bored and faintly disgusted face All right, a seven-year-old schoolboy might possibly have found this quip hilarious.

But I don't believe that, these days, .