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?

Spare a thought for famous men of a certain age who find themselves totally at sea in the woke modern world. 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. 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. All I will say is that Gregg Wallace with his top off is indeed a revolting sight Then there was Wynne Evans, the 52-year-old Welsh opera singer famous for the Go Compare Now it is said that six years ago, Wallace was hauled before his bosses at the BBC, who instructed him to change his behaviour, after he was accused of making 'inappropriate sexual comments'. 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 Until now these have been the last bastions of free speech, where jokes of every hue, and opinions of every kind, have been tolerated since before Shakespeare's time.