David Walliams #2

[moldwarp]

I can answer this. Just to preface, I’m a retired librarian, not a David Walliams fan.
No, that’s not true. There’s no porn in it

X had a picture of one of the pages where the central character talks about his dad keeping naughty magazines under his bed or something

 

[AlwightDallin]

I can answer this. Just to preface, I’m a retired librarian, not a David Walliams fan.
No, that’s not true. There’s no porn in it

There’s no porn but the themes are inappropriate for kids imo. The boy in the dress is especially problematic. As is the language used - ‘woofter’ and ‘ag’ spring to mind - imagine having to even attempt to explain what they mean to a little child.

 

[Anna Wintour]

I heard (years and years ago via Popbitch possibly?) that Mayall, Fry and others were chatting in a bar when the topic of groupies / underage ‘acts’ came up and Fry basically went into a long diatribe of how ‘young love’ has been around years historically it’s natural and it never used to harm anyone. Mayall, the father of two young girls, was fuming and had to leave the bar otherwise he would have punched Fry. Not long after, Fry had a ‘breakdown’ and caught a random ferry, going missing for a few days and causing the cancellation of the play (which had poor reviews anyway). Mayall never spoke to him again.

I'm so glad Rik was one of the good ones. Similarly, I don't want to be on Piers Morgan's side ever but he's always clocked people.

 

[moldwarp]

Piers Morgan in the DM:

"Morgan, who acted as judge on the show from 2007 to 2010, held a well-documented grudge against the star and when the BGT news came to light in November 2022, he tweeted: 'Tip of the iceberg.. Walliams is one of the nastiest frauds in TV.'

He also branded Walliams 'soooooo creepy' in a tweet in May the same year.

In 2020, in an interview with The Sunday Mirror, when asked about returning to BGT, Morgan said: 'I couldn’t work with Walliams..."

I know its unfashionable but I've always had a soft spot for Piers, he says what he thinks and stands by it. Which I think is a good quality.

I did enjoy Piers' side eye at the camera when Russell Brand was flicking forlornly through his Bible trying to find the one citation from Isaiah which he claimed sustained him spiritually since his conversion

Like my Bible falls open at the pages that have sustained me cos, ya know, if a verse s important to you, you tend to return to it a lot and know exactly where it is

Brand's Bible barely had its spine cracked

 

[theleagueofgentlemen]

There’s no porn but the themes are inappropriate for kids imo. The boy in the dress is especially problematic. As is the language used - ‘woofter’ and ‘ag’ spring to mind - imagine having to even attempt to explain what they mean to a little child.

Tbf, they were meant for older kids up to the age of 12.
Anyway, I’m stepping out now because it looks as if I’m defending him which I certainly am not. I just wanted to offer some reassurance in case anyone’s kids happened upon them.

 

[moldwarp]

Tbf, they were meant for older kids up to the age of 12.
Anyway, I’m stepping out now because it looks as if I’m defending him which I certainly am not. I just wanted to offer some reassurance in case anyone’s kids happened upon them.

It doesn't read like you're defending him at all!

 

[domeafavour]

My mum bought a couple of his books for my daughter. Don’t know why, I guess she saw the Quentin Blake illustrations and probably thought they would be fun. My daughter was too old for them really and never read them. Then I read a few things about them and about Walliams and threw them in the bin. I always hated Little Britain and especially the vomiting woman (???)

 

[SaLou]

I'm so glad Rik was one of the good ones. Similarly, I don't want to be on Piers Morgan's side ever but he's always clocked people.

And yet he is friends with Trump.

 

[Web30]

The only book we had of his was a few chapters of something that came in a happy meal, my daughter had zero interest. We did enjoy the movie gangster granny but that's as far as we went with his "kids" stuff

 

[kittycatkitty]

There’s no porn but the themes are inappropriate for kids imo. The boy in the dress is especially problematic. As is the language used - ‘woofter’ and ‘ag’ spring to mind - imagine having to even attempt to explain what they mean to a little child.

When I was a nanny the children’s first language wasn’t english so when we would read together they’d ask what things meant because it wasn’t something they would hear at home or in English class and their dad had bought a couple of his books and it wasn’t until the older boy started asking me what things meant then I realised these books weren’t very appropriate for young children. I’m not British so even I was googling what certain ‘slang’ meant.

 

[Shawads]

I was thinking earlier that the comedy circuit in the 90s and 00s basically was like the music scene in the 70s. All those men getting into it to have carte Blanche to have sex with/sexually assault young girls.

People say that it’s no longer socially acceptable but nothing has changed. The perps are just better at hiding it/more litigious.

The music scene in the 90s was no different from how it was in the seventies (and before)

 

[Shawads]

Has anyone here actually read any of his books to their kids/had their kids read them? Not me but apparently there's one book called The Boy who Liked to Wear Dresses in which the boy in question discovers his dad's secret porn stash, or talks about his father's secret porn stash, and also discusses porn and cross dressing with the man who runs his local newsagent is that true?

if so, like, holy inappropriateness, Batman! What WERE his publishers thinking???

We watched the film I think the book was based on, I don’t remember there being any porn in it…

 

[ChampagneBox]

I truly don't wish to launch a conspiracy theory of sorts here, but it's interesting to me how Jonathan Ross keeps cropping up, even if just in jest. First Brand, now Walliams.

I'm sure we doubtless would've heard something about him by now if he was shady, but it does make you wonder.

I wonder this about David Jason. I know the accusations that SA of children was going on in a house he owned by some of his friends, but I feel like something tangible would have come out by now seeing as he’s so old