MasterChef star John Torode's been done up like a kipper... he should sue the Beeb!

So, let's get this right. Over 20 years, MasterChef's Gregg Wallace dropped his pants in front of frightened women on numerous occasions. He talked dirty to others using sexually explicit and inappropriate language. The BBC knew about his scummy behaviour for years - but did nothing. Finally, when it could ignore the tsunami of complaints no longer - it let the show's production company sack him.

However, it has now sacked John Torode, who is an entirely different story. Eight years ago, John - one of the most decent blokes on telly - is alleged to have repeated the N-word from the Kanye West song, Gold Digger, at an after-work party which, at the time, offended no one.

No complaint was ever made. And John says he can't remember saying it. But fast-forward nearly a decade and, because it now suits the corporation, which is desperately trying to save its cash cow, MasterChef, it has brutally fired Torode from the show that he, in SPITE of the idiot Wallace, made hugely successful during his 20 years hosting it.

Am I missing something here? This is our state broadcaster which took a year to sack the pervert Huw Edwards (and continued to pay his £475,000 salary throughout his suspension) and which has done zilch in terms of internal sackings over allowing scumbags Vylan to sing Death to Jews at Glastonbury in front of Director-General Tim Davie and literally hundreds of other BBC staff.

It's the same company which didn't sack the abuser and pervert Jimmy Savile even though bosses knew about his depraved behaviour and the young lives he was wrecking. Ditto Rolf Harris and Stuart Hall. Yet Torode, about whom there has never been a whiff of scandal, gets sacked for (allegedly) repeating words from a song at a drinks do eight years ago?

And incredibly, it wasn't the person he supposedly said the word to who reported him, but someone who overheard it, did nothing at the time but mentioned it again recently? Sounds a bit malicious and calculating to me. But even that snitch, who obviously has beef with Torode, said they overheard him apologise immediately for using the word. So, did that really warrant his sacking EIGHT years later? Is the BBC saying Torode is a racist?

Because, by sacking him, that's what it's inferring, and if I was Torode, I'd sue them to hell and back for that because it will have huge implications for his career. And if he was sacked for using a racist word, why does Torode say BBC bosses told him to say he had to quit on mental health grounds? This is our state broadcaster, for God's sake - telling people to pretend they're mentally ill. How many more people has it said that to?

Thank God ITV has had the moral courage to stand by Torode and has said it will broadcast the fantastic cookery show he does with wife Lisa. Because yes, he might have said a bad word, but it doesn't make him a bad man.

It makes him a good man who (might) have made a bad mistake. But this is a witch hunt, pure and simple. For years, the BBC has turned a blind eye to the perverts in its midst because they brought in money. And now that it's fighting to save one of its big money-making shows, it's prepared to wreck the life of a man who has done them proud over the last 20 years. The hypocrisy is staggering. The BBC doesn't give a stuff about racism.

If it did, it wouldn't have told Torode to fake mental health problems. It just cares about profit and so believes if it has a clean sweep of presenters on MasterChef - even if it wrecks the life and career of a man who has been brilliant on the show for two decades - it can just reboot everything. Well, newsflash.

If the Beeb is depending on the cold, humourless Grace Dent to resurrect it - it's in big trouble. The woman's about as friendly as a piranha. Torode could have made her palatable, but without him she'll be exposed for what she is - terminally average! The BBC was once the pride of this nation. Now it's our national shame. And John Torode is just another notch on its immoral, hypocritical, duplicitous bedpost.

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How long is Prince Harry going to keep trying to resurrect his own mess of a life by dragging the ghost of his dead mother behind him trying to convince us he's as good as she was? He isn't. Nowhere close. But this week Harry made the self-serving and blindingly transparent decision to walk across an Angolan minefield dressed in exactly the same kit his mother wore 28 years ago. He said it was to raise money for the Halo Trust charity.

I suspect it was to raise his own battered profile and to scream to the world: "Look at me. I'm every bit as good as my mum."

It also came hot on the heels of the so-called peace summit last week when Harry dispatched one of his 'people' to meet his father's trusted aide in a bid to negotiate his way back into the Royal Family.

But far from proving he's worthy of a place back in the fold, this PR stunt proves beyond doubt he's not - that Harry's first priority is and always will be Harry, not duty, not service, not his family. What he did in Angola wasn't about charity, it was sheer desperation from a man whose "new" life clearly isn't working out and so now wants to weasel his way back into the family he's spent the last five years trying to destroy in order to be a "somebody" again.

He's really not fooling anybody - except maybe himself!

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So, Keir Starmer is trying to rig the next election by giving the vote to 16-year-olds. Or to be more precise, to inexperienced, immature teens who he imagines are too daft to see through his incompetence. But it WILL backfire. In a new poll, 49% of young people said they were too young to vote. And only 18% said they would vote.

And I suspect that come the next election, most young people will hate this Labour Government as much as the rest of us and will vote Reform.

How desperate is this joke of a PM to enlist the support of youngsters who, at 16, are too young to marry, join the military, smoke, drink, buy a lottery ticket or play X-rated video games.

But hey, Starmer thinks they're old enough to have a say in who runs the country. His defence of giving teens the vote: "If they're old enough to work, old enough to pay taxes, they're old enough to vote."

So, if that's the qualification, why do the 9.4 million people in this country who aren't working and who don't pay taxes get a vote? Desperate measures from a desperate Prime Minister!

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Why has the story about Mr F1, Christian Horner, being sacked by Red Bull suddenly become all about his wife, Geri Horner's "humiliation and devastation?"

It's not Geri who's been sacked from one of the most prestigious jobs in sport. Or are people suggesting she only married Horner - and stayed with him after the sexting scandal last year - because she loved being F1's First Lady and because he gave status to the working-class girl from Watford?

Because if that's the case, all the lovedup, kissy pics we've seen of the pair this past year must have been an act which would mean Geri's not a very nice person. Time will tell. Will the Spice Girl stand by her man - without his status?