David Walliams #2

[moldwarp]

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???

 

[Serene Serena]

I felt sorry for the young girl who sent him scripts she’d written, and he told her she was incredibly talented and to send him more, that she had a career as a comedy writer etc etc then ordered her to stop bothering him when he obviously lost interest or found another youngster to pester.

 

[Serene Serena]

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???

His books are banned in my house. We have Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library books, every month, and go to the local library as well, which chucked out his books months ago.

 

[maytoseptember]

I raised the fact that he was inviting unchaperoned teenagers into his dressing room at BGT

I remember reading about this in the Popbitch mailout years ago. Specifically girls of around 16-17.

I feel so sorry for his young son too. I hope Walliams thinks of him and doesn't add to the boy's stress by unaliving himself.
Do doubt the press will be blamed if he does.

It was put forth in the legal judgement, as it goes. One of the many arguments by DW’s legal team being “It will be sad for his son if he kills himself”, like the onus was on the judge to prevent DW killing himself, not on DW staying on this earth for the sake of his child.

 

[Libbylulu]

Years back my daughter received Gangsta Granny as a gift, I read it with her. What struck me was all the fart, bum, knickers jokes. Every woman and girl were portrayed negatively. So a subtle power imbalance in his books against females. We didn’t read another.

The Little Britain characters were mainly negative female characters too.

 

[maytoseptember]

I do believe sex addiction is a thing, but that only a few who claim to be so that are actual sex addicts. I quite agree that it's often used as a sympathy tactic and a get-out-of-jail-free card for the most heinous, though.

I don’t. I think all men - given enough fame, power, money and women throwing themselves at them - have the potential to be totally corrupted by the pursuit of sex and women/girls much younger than them. “Sex addiction” is just an attempt to glean pity for being an abusive b, and to feign helplessness.

 

[moldwarp]

His books are banned in my house. We have Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library books, every month, and go to the local library as well, which chucked out his books months ago.

But it's also just like....they took the golliwog and the weird Jewish-coded goblin out of the Noddy books, which I think is absolutely fair enough, times have changed and so have sensibilities. I can get behind that decision. What I can't understand is an industry that was on the ball enough to take a golliwog character out of a children's book, but still thought porn in another children's book was A-OK?
Like what? Like how? Help I'm confused

 

[Miss Begotten]

Sucking the breast and trying to put your hands down the front of a 15 year old girl's trousers is illegal.

Holy tit, I completely missed that the victim was 15.
Ugh. Disgusting b.

 

[Kat5998]

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Two failed attempts? He definitely wasn’t being serious, he just wanted to look like a victim so they’d stop

 

[mummy_3]

There's controversy about Latin! or Tobacco and Boys written by Fry in 1979. Something about the resurgence of that story made Fry do a bunk just as he was doing a play with, gahhhh, one of the young ones (tv show) who was pissed about it all and peeps thought Fry had gone off to top himself. Someone will correct my deets.

Rik Mayall was the co star in Cell Mates. I thought Fry abandoned the play because of a bad review or something along those lines? Only going by what I vaguely remember in various Rik Mayall documentaries Ive seen.

 

[AlwightDallin]

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???

I started to read one of them to my then 7-8 year old at bedtime and found it so full of sexual innuendo, snot-bum-bogies ‘humour’, casual racism and just awful storytelling I gave up and we agreed he wasn’t for us. He’s always given me the creeps so I was glad she agreed, after asking to read one. We go to Alton Towers a lot and even the shop in the (now very closed) World of Walliams was full of racist tropes. We only went for a nose round, there were only 4 rides, one closed last year and even on the heaving days the rest were always dead. It’s no loss.

A lot of his books were made into BBC movies and put on at Christmas, starring some big names but always starring Walliams, as he gave us all the ick we didn’t watch them other than ‘Ratburger’ because my friend was an extra in it and we wanted to spot her. Don’t think they’ll see the light of day again. Again no loss, they were ruined by his gurning greasy presence.

 

[VeniVidiVicki]

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.

 

[Restless Native]

I don't think there will be quite as many. For some reason Brand seemed to appeal to a lot of men and women in a way that I don't think David does.

The right wing grifting Brand did seems have all the right wing loony toons supporting him

 

[Winthropp Tuesday]

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Looking forward to next weeks episode of The Rest is Entertainment in which Osman says he never knew him and “went to another schoool hacchually”.

 

[moldwarp]

I was thinking earlier that the comedy circuit in the 90s and 00s basically was like the music scene in the 70s. All those middle aged men getting into it so they can 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.

I was thinking about this earlier too.

With Savile etc, everyone made excuses like 'the 1970s were a different time, attitudes were different'.

Well, yes and no, I was a 70s kid, yes sexism, homophobia, casual racism were present but the 1970s weren't a foreign country. People knew grape was bad, pedalo was bad, racism was bad (although the bar to what racism was, was rooted in actions more than attitudes), DV was bad.

However, as an excuse, it works, just about.

I don't think you can make the same excuse for the 90s and 00s. That's like, super recent. People can't pretend it was a 'different time' like they do with the 70s.

I just think that fame, power and money have the potential for abuse of all sorts built in. it's a feature not a bug. And that's the same and it'll always be the same whether thats 526BC, 1326AD, 1976, 2006 or 2036.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

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.

 

[AlwightDallin]

Rik Mayall was the co star in Cell Mates. I thought Fry abandoned the play because of a bad review or something along those lines? Only going by what I vaguely remember in various Rik Mayall documentaries Ive seen.

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.

 

[theleagueofgentlemen]

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???

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

 

[PoppyKittens]

During a few phone-ins on This Morning, Schofield invited teens that were going through hard times to visit the studios. It was either a kind thing to do, or a creepy way to meet vulnerable youngsters.

 

[kokomonroe]

H

There's echoes of the Stephen 'I'm running away because people have found out I wrote a dirty pedalo script once' Fry there.

Fry lives on the road opposite my ex in West Hampstead. And his horrible taxi was always parked outside. Blaming his bipolar for any wrong doings