"HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams."
Perhaps they're still happy to profit from his previous work?
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His most recent book was his Christmas book published in late October, which he's still been promoting because the stories last week about him not having his son for Christmas got their quotes from the press rounds of the book.
Harper Collins (and Williams) will have still made a chunk of money due to the new book's pre-Christmas sales. There's no way it was their decision to publicly drop him just days
before Christmas as they've been happily profiting off his books for the past couple months, so there's no reason to believe they wouldn't have waited until after Christmas to get more last minute sales of his books, esp the Christmas one they're actively promoting.
They'll have only publicly announced dropping him to The Telegraph now as to get ahead of their investigation article, so the headline would be 'Walliams dropped from publisher' and not 'Walliams 'inappropriate' publishing staff which the company knew of and did nothing about'. They might have already decided not to publish any more books with him, but it almost certainly would have happened very discreetly otherwise with him claimimg he's 'taking a break from writing to focus on other things'
