David Walliams

[Dotty Merton]

I think what makes these celebs' egos go through the roof is that they're constantly referred to as 'the talent'.

Sorry, off topic, just wanted to say what a fannitastic name you have

 

[Doyouknowwhatimean]

From the DM ‘The children's author has published more than 40 works’ - his first children’s book was published in 2008. How on earth has he managed to keep up standards and publish 40 in an 18 year period? He must be pumping out 2-3 books a year? Roald Dahl only published around 20 children’s books in about 46 years!

Is he not using a ghostwriter, i thought this was evident. There's no way people like him are actually writing the books.

 

[Puffin]

The way ITV protect the likes of Walliams and Schofield, they are like the BBC in the 1970s. At least in the 1970s one can understand how victims felt they'd never be believed and the culture was such that certain things were deemed more "acceptable" (not that it made anything that happened right), but it beggars belief that in 2022, predatory behaviour is still covered up.


Make me sick to think of how much my children, and myself, liked his books, when they were younger. I spent a fortune on them. And now I hear he probably didn't even write them. Although maybe it's just as well. He got the bloody money for them though! Hope the ghostwriter name is/are made public some day so they can get the credit.


That's surprising about Mark Owen. So he's another dirty bastard then

It came out years ago that Mark Owen was a raging womaniser. Think he made a statement admitting to like 8 affairs or something but his wife was sticking by him

 

[Miss Havisham]

The thing is I could believe he tried to put it in to weird staff/readers out, more than I believe it’s true. It’s about right that he thought it would be “funny”.
It would be pretty wild that someone in the 2000s would genuinely say they shagged their sister and be entirely bewildered that other people thought it shouldn’t be repeated.

I agree. It’s making me think that it’s not true at all - but he thought that the shock / horror reactions would be hilarious.He would laugh it all off, saying of course it’s not true, etc. Not thinking for a moment, how his sister would feel about it.

 

[Eirawen]

David Williams always gave me the same creepy vibe as Jimmy Saville

 

[Hollie Day]

It always puzzled me how they got away with such awful degrading stereotyping on Come Fly with Me including doing blackface. I mean we're talking about a programme of more recent times, not the eighties.

Odious right winger Jim Davidson doing nothing near as bad got cancelled (quite rightly too) for his comedy but it seems the trick is to portray yourself as left leaning because the left never cancel their their own ..which is why David and Matt were able to carry on getting top gigs.
I enjoy seeing the downfall of people like this.

 

[hayleybaby]

My ex had a link with a journo from one of the red tops. A couple of years ago they were going to do a huge expose of him being a pedalo and his links to under age teenage girls in the BGT years. His legal team quickly shut it down and they were silenced …. Another journo from the Guardian then tried to run with it and they too were silenced,

 

[Not Your Kind of Person]

He is known to be friends with Paedos and something happened in his house with a few. There has also been stories for years about him doing stuff at a hang gliding club years back and he has the same stories hanging around him like Saville...the BBC know as do the police who have had people report him to them and those who did were either ignored or told it would be investigated and nothing happened. Not sure if it's true or not but when he dies, I do think stories will come out about sexual harassment as he himself has let slip about things he did back in the day he thought was 'funny' that would now get him in trouble. Worse still, there are people who are defending it because he is a 'national treasure'.

Rumors claim David Jason had ties with a problematic gliding club!

As David Jason trended on social platforms, many looked for his details which revealed his criminal history with the Gliding Club!

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I feel like Nicholas Lyndhurst knows something and it's why he seems to have distanced himself from him in recent years; case in point, he's very notably absent from the new Only Fools thing on Gold.

 

[hayleybaby]

Some of the DM’s he sent the young girls have been posted on X.

 

[Wunderbar]

I saw Little Britain Live a number of years back and the Des Kaye scene then concerned me. They got a few of the audience up on stage, mixed ages, but Walliams persistently targeted this young male who claimed to be 18 and did all this “jokes” with a sausage. It ended up with Walliams in character stripping the poor boy off his trousers whilst the boy attempted to get away from him. The audience loved it and the “joke” clearly went down well but when the poor boys face was beamed on the big screen you could tell he was mortified, embarrassed and abused. Turned out the boy was there with his parents. Fast forward a year and I saw the show again and again the exact thing happened. The youngest male chosen was the one selected for the OTT sexual touching.

This was circa 2006/7. Before the children’s books, the reality shows and his royal awards.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

Enabled by commissioners giving him tv series, and agents, talk show bookers etc it’s not down to the studio crew to call it out

Even if they did, who's going to get the boot? the 'talent' or the camera/lights/sound person who can be replaced within 5 minutes. My oldest did her degree in film and TV production, I'm SO happy she's chosen not to work in the industry

 

[Lynn’ssnazzycardigan]

Just read an article in the mirror. It’s got quotes from him that he’s actually made in public at a cybersecurity event but just gave me red flags. I’m paraphrasing but it was things like imagine if my WhatsApp messages got leaked, I share bad taste jokes with friends same as everyone and the ominous “people send you bizarre things”. Could just be innocent but to me it sounds like, normalising, passing off as a joke and blaming others, to cover his back if his messages are dodgy and do get leaked. I’m possibly reaching but I always feel like these articles want you to read between the lines!

 

[TheMiceInTheShed]

I can’t dispute his claims obviously but this guy always came across as fairly unstable (imo) and I think he’s actually been in treatment/sectioned since, according to what I’ve heard. Not a fan of ML or especially DW, but when this guy released some phone messages ML sent him they really didn’t seem incriminating or weird? I thought maybe it was just me, but most of the comments from people agreed.

It's a difficult situation.

Mental instability can cause people to make inaccurate claims - but at the same time can be caused by abuse, and also mean that people aren't believed when they report the abuse - they're just dismissed as not being reliable.

 

[Rockin' Robin]

Don't forget Russell Brand.'s children's books.

The wrong uns' all seem to hide behind a cosy, family friendly facade. Rolf Harris, Savile ect.

 

[HotesTilaire]

Who were enabled because the crew around them were complicit and silent

Enabled by commissioners giving him tv series, and agents, talk show bookers etc it’s not down to the studio crew to call it out

 

[Lolly505]

"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'

 

[Brummiebird]

Is this the start of his downfall? Fingers crossed!

https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...encounters-fans-DAVID-WALLIAMS-TV-bosses.html

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

This is true, and I definitely didn't assume they'd be great friends IRL, but him not appearing when all the other main (living) cast members are is odd. Supposedly it's because he doesn't like to look back on his work, but hmm.

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He's very well known to have become quite withdrawn, even reclusive though, particularly after the death of his son. I'm sure he's pretty much said that himself. It's nothing to do with David Jason or his (very tenuous) links to some awful people.

 

[hayleybaby]

Have you pulled that figure out of thin air? Seems ott imo

His sales are now shit and the publishers have a new CEO so she probably thought they can get rid of his expensive deal.

In all honesty yes I did . But in my defence I’ve been standing on this hill for years waiting for this day to come . It may not be millions no, but it’s still an eye watering amount to shut down multiple journos from exposing him for years across 3 different news papers (at least ) not to mention nda silencing / paying off people from telling their stories ect. That’s not pocket money. Even for him. Schofield operated in the same manner until he ran out of rope.

We will just have to see how this plays out in the next few weeks but most of the reactions and comments I’ve read aren’t in his favour. The usual ‘witch hunt, scapegoat’ ect crew are minimal compared to the other recent similar celeb exposés.

 

[DiscoInDreams]

I saw Little Britain Live a number of years back and the Des Kaye scene then concerned me. They got a few of the audience up on stage, mixed ages, but Walliams persistently targeted this young male who claimed to be 18 and did all this “jokes” with a sausage. It ended up with Walliams in character stripping the poor boy off his trousers whilst the boy attempted to get away from him. The audience loved it and the “joke” clearly went down well but when the poor boys face was beamed on the big screen you could tell he was mortified, embarrassed and abused. Turned out the boy was there with his parents. Fast forward a year and I saw the show again and again the exact thing happened. The youngest male chosen was the one selected for the OTT sexual touching.

This was circa 2006/7. Before the children’s books, the reality shows and his royal awards.

If memory serves, he did the same to ex Hollyoaks actor Jeremy Edwards at a charity performance, pulling his jeans and boxers down while Jeremy struggled to stop his genitals being exposed and u could tell that David was going hell for leather trying to strip him against his will. If that happened anywhere else it would be called sexual assault/attempted rape but for some reason, because it was in front of an audience for charity, its called entertainment.