 Gregg Wallace is 'chuffed' with the reaction to his controversial Channel 4 hoax show British Miracle Meat, despite backlash from viewers, and it's now been claimed he has 'all the answers'. The MasterChef star, 58, fronted the one-off TV special for the channel which showed him touring a factory to explore claims a new meat alternative had been found to help provide low-cost meals during the cost of living crisis – with Gregg revealing the new steaks had been grown from human flesh. The 'human' steak, which was valued for just 99p, was presented as a cash-saving alternative amid the cost-of-living crisis. As if that wasn't stomach-churning enough, a new 'premium' range, 'harvested from the cells of kids under the age of six' and known as 'toddler tartare', was said to be in development. However, the show was a satire rather than an Inside The Factory-style documentary and the presenter has now broken his silence on the spoof by sharing a picture of a review which branded it 'one of the best TV hoaxes in history' on Instagram, simply writing: 'Chuffed.' The show instantly divided viewers with some aghast at the subject matter, while others applauding politically-aware satire – which some even compared to the BBC's classic 1992 special Ghostwatch which fooled viewers into thinking they were witnessing a haunting on live TV. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video British Miracle Meat director Tom Kingsley has since branded Gregg the 'smartest person in the room'. He told the Guardian: 'It's [the show] not just about our society; it's a satire of TV as well. 'These [documentary-style TV] shows purport to be telling you something like 'this is how biscuits are made', but really you're being given a very narrow window into the process. 'We're not given very much context; anything troublesome is overlooked…){kind=link}
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Gregg Wallace is ‘chuffed’ with the reaction to his controversial Channel 4 hoax show British Miracle Meat, despite backlash from viewers, and it’s now been claimed he has ‘all the answers’.
The MasterChef star, 58, fronted the one-off TV special for the channel which showed him touring a factory to explore claims a new meat alternative had been found to help provide low-cost meals during the cost of living crisis – with Gregg revealing the new steaks had been grown from human flesh.
The ‘human’ steak, which was valued for just 99p, was presented as a cash-saving alternative amid the cost-of-living crisis.
As if that wasn’t stomach-churning enough, a new ‘premium’ range, ‘harvested from the cells of kids under the age of six’ and known as ‘toddler tartare’, was said to be in development.