{"id":959581,"date":"2026-11-10T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/959581\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:26:14","slug":"david-walliams-named-as-celebrity-at-the-centre-of-misconduct-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/959581\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walliams Named As Celebrity At The Centre Of Misconduct Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Walliams<\/a> has been named as the public figure at the centre of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n

Last month, it was reported<\/a> that a \u201cwell-known individual\u201d \u2013 referred to in court simply as PPT \u2013 had been seeking a legal injunction to prevent The Guardian and the news production company ITN from publishing allegations about him.<\/p>\n

These accusations included what The Guardian described as<\/a> \u201cinappropriate and exploitative sexual activities with girls and young women\u201d. PPT\u2019s legal team had previously denied<\/a> that he ever used \u201chis power and position as a celebrity to contact and forge relationships with young women and teenagers to try to have sex with them\u201d.<\/p>\n

They also argued that the publication of these claims could place him at a high risk of suicide, stating that he was still \u201cseriously ill\u201d after two previous attempts on his life in recent months.<\/p>\n

Last week, this request for an injunction was denied<\/a>, and on Tuesday afternoon, ITV published allegations from multiple women<\/a> alleging that Walliams \u201cgroomed\u201d them as teenagers.<\/p>\n

One woman has also accused him of \u201csexual assaulting\u201d her when she was a teenager, after they first made contact on the social media site MySpace in 2007, when she was 15 and he was in his mid-30s.<\/p>\n

Another, as outlined in The Guardian<\/a>, claims she met him at a Little Britain fan event in 2004, when she was also aged 15, with the pair striking up a relationship that she said had turned sexual by the time she was .<\/p>\n

The reporting includes accounts of alleged \u201cinappropriate conduct\u201d and \u201csexual harassment\u201d behind the scenes of Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/a>, where he served as a judge for 10 years, and at his former publisher, HarperCollins.<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid Walliams arriving at Britain\u2019s Got Talent auditions in 2013<\/p>\n

ITV\u2019s reporting also confirmed that Walliams had attempted to block the allegations detailed in the three-year investigation with an injunction, but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Walliams has denied all of the allegations against him, including any criminal behaviour.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with,\u201d he said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cI realise I did not always take people\u2019s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did…<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a sexual predator… I have not broken the law… I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the same day the injunction was confirmed to have been turned down, it was reported that a zone at the theme park Alton Towers inspired by Walliams\u2019 children\u2019s books was being \u201cpermanently closed\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In December, it was reported that the publisher HarperCollins UK \u2013 with whom the former Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/a> judge had previously collaborated on more than 20 children\u2019s books \u2013 had \u201cdecided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarperCollins takes employee well-being extremely seriously and has processes in place for reporting and investigating concerns,\u201d a spokesperson said at the time<\/a>, while declining to comment any more specifically on \u201cinternal matters\u201d.<\/p>\n

At the time, Walliams\u2019 agent said<\/a>: \u201cDavid has never been informed of any allegations raised against him by HarperCollins.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was not party to any investigation or given any opportunity to answer questions. David strongly denies that he has behaved inappropriately and is taking legal advice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, as recently as September 2026, HarperCollins confirmed<\/a> it had dropped Walliams\u2019 backlist, meaning it would be phasing out his past titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Walliams has been named as the public figure at the centre of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[527049,43,44,41,39,42,40,527048],"class_list":["post-959581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-david-walliams","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-celebrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}