That’s the thought I had every time I saw the promo touting the claim in the past week
The Daily Mail discovered some very homophobic posts Reynold made on a forum in 2014
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one can certainly change in 6 years. when i was forced out to my father by my cousin my father at the time was very homophobic. some things happend and to make a long story short my father sort help and did a complete 360 in the proccess. btw i been out now for around 11 years
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I never take any notice of who is or isn’t watching from the gantry
At least Reynold has apologised for his comments, which is good.
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Of course the Daily Maily would resort to this gutter journalism.
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They are pretty awful comments though. But I don’t think we should ever be judged too harshly for views we had when we were young with little to no life experience. We grow as people and views do change. It has made me look at him a little differently though.
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I’m a bit surprised you guys are all ok with this?
Reynold’s comments were bad, surprised it took many years for them to surface. Also, when people applied for MasterChef, the producers didn’t think of screening their comments on social media.
He made them on a forum and it’s taken this long for them to come out? I don’t think any reasonable amount of screening could’ve brought this up - lets be realistic here.
I wouldn’t say I am ok with the comments. I would just be a bit hypocritical if I judged him too harshly. Especially when he just Apologised and mentioned he was Young and dumb. Only last year a labour MP was removed because of comments he made when he was younger and I do think we grow as humans.
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Lol he’s changed in a whole 6 years. Yeah right. He was 20. He was old enough to know what he was saying and these comments, although never ok, were certainly not ok in 2014. He’s apologising because it’s the only thing he can do to try salvage his career.
Channel 10 should get this [redacted] off the show immediately or it will look like they support bigotry and homophobia.
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How ridiculous.
They’ve already finished filming. How do you suggest they remove him?
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I certainly changed heaps between those ages. I moved overseas, got my first full time job, fell in love, had my heart broken just to name a few. He has also changed a lot. Went from being a body builder to appearing on the biggest cooking show in Australia twice, to owning his own restaurant.
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Regardless of whether his views have changed or not, he still held those views and made those comments. Just because he may have changed his mind doesn’t mean he gets off with an apology.
If they were to remove the contestant, they could do something similar to what RuPaul’s Drag Race did this season and disqualify the contestant as an incident occurred after the season was filmed. That contestant ended up making the top 4 during filming but no longer now.
Or they can just leave it as is.
At the end of the day no matter how offensive his opinions are he is entitled to have them and it has nothing to do with his ability to cook.
If we removed everyone who’s ever said anything remotely offensive there’d be no one left on television.
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Agreed. I am sick of this cancel culture that has developed in recent years. Some people even want Jimmy Fallon taken off air for using blackface in an SNL sketch 20 years ago.
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This was my thought too - just 6 years ago. He wouldn’t have changed opinions too much. I’d be very curious to know what the openly out contestants have to say.
what do you want, blood?
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