David Walliams

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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!
Mixture of novels, short story collections, and picture books. There are steadfast claims than none of them are ghosted. The difference between Walliams and Dahl is quantity over quality - more titles selling far fewer copies each.
 
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So I wonder what has changed? Why are the stories about him, now being made public?
Hes spent millions on lawyers blocking the stories, paying people off ect . Perhaps he’s running out of cash, someone’s broke an NDA or there’s just too many people to silence now? Or maybe something big is about to break he can’t run from any more. Massive respect to the journos that have never given up trying to expose him.
 
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Hes spent millions on lawyers blocking the stories, paying people off ect . Perhaps he’s running out of cash, someone’s broke an NDA or there’s just too many people to silence now? Or maybe something big is about to break he can’t run from any more. Massive respect to the journos that have never given up trying to expose him.
can’t believe he’s paying millions.
 
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Is it possible he put on that highly camp, dated stereotype of a gay man act to try and put people off the scent?
 
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Hes spent millions on lawyers blocking the stories, paying people off ect . Perhaps he’s running out of cash, someone’s broke an NDA or there’s just too many people to silence now? Or maybe something big is about to break he can’t run from any more. Massive respect to the journos that have never given up trying to expose him.
Have you pulled that figure out of thin air? Seems ott imo

His sales are now tit and the publishers have a new CEO so she probably thought they can get rid of his expensive deal.
 
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Is it possible he put on that highly camp, dated stereotype of a gay man act to try and put people off the scent?
In some of the versions of his autobiography “Camp David” he actually says he used to pretend to be gay to get women into bed. I will never forget reading and thinking how predatory and vile that is. I’m not sure if it was removed at some point because I can’t believe more people didn’t pick up on it.
 
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His 'hide the sausage' with young men was also gross and I dont know how he got away with it.

I wonder if he doesnt discriminate on sex when it comes to who his tastes are for harassment
Can my naive little self ask, what is hide the sausage?
 
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Have you pulled that figure out of thin air? Seems ott imo

His sales are now tit 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.
 
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When he was on The Wheel the other week he was as unfunny as ever but I hadn't noticed before how bitter he seemed. He was so desperate for the screen time and expected the contestants to be fawning over him. Did this whole 'ha ha pretend sulk' when he got put in red but clearly wasn't pretending. Then when the contestant got the answer wrong he was gloating and kept bringing up later that he got the question right. It was all so awkward and out of step with the tone of the show.

He reminds me so much of Michael Barrymore. So devoid of actual wit, charm or warmth they both turn to pawing over audience members 'for laughs.' They can't hide the inner nastiness.
 
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Sausage is a euphemism for something else!
Thank you Robin :LOL: I got that bit just didn't fully understand what it entailed and how it happened live on stage!

Thank you Mark for enlightening me, that's bloody wild imagine being pulled out of the audience to be sexually assaulted by him 😲How people thought that was funny or appropriate is beyond me?! Even back then come on
 
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Have you pulled that figure out of thin air? Seems ott imo

His sales are now tit and the publishers have a new CEO so she probably thought they can get rid of his expensive deal.
He’s their best selling children’s author. His newest book Santa and Son is still at number 9 in amazons children’s best sellers list. Where did you get the notion that his sales are tit? I mean I’m sure they are now but they weren’t before he got canned. HC had to pay off a member of staff. There is some very big tit that’s about to come out about him. Much worse than what we already know.
 
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So, apparently this week just gone the Guardian were about to drop a big story that they’ve been sitting on for a while. Walliams and his lawyers managed to get it blocked, but the following day he was dropped by his publishers anyway. Something big is about to come out about him IMO.
 
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He’s their best selling children’s author. His newest book Santa and Son is still at number 9 in amazons children’s best sellers list. Where did you get the notion that his sales are tit? I mean I’m sure they are now but they weren’t before he got canned. HC had to pay off a member of staff. There is some very big tit that’s about to come out about him. Much worse than what we already know.
Sorry @Spid it’s in this article which I hadn’t read because of the paywall. https://archive.is/2025.12.19-20171...ews/2025/12/19/david-walliams-harper-collins/

If the telegraph broke the story, will the guardian go next? Is there some kind of etiquette around how it works?
 
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