{"id":205577,"date":"2025-12-22T19:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205577\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:22:06","slug":"david-walliams-removed-from-childrens-book-festival-line-up-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205577\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walliams removed from children’s book festival line-up | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Walliams has been removed from the line-up for a children’s book event.<\/p>\n

Book retailer Waterstones has confirmed the author will no longer appear at its Children’s Book Festival.<\/p>\n

It comes after the TV star was dropped by his publisher HarperCollins UK<\/a> following allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women.<\/p>\n

Walliams strongly denies allegations of inappropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n

A statement from Waterstones said: “HarperCollins have confirmed that David Walliams will no longer be appearing at our festival in Dundee.”<\/p>\n

The festival will span across three locations, also including Lincoln and Taunton. The Dundee event will take place on 6 and 7 February.<\/p>\n

Walliams has been removed from the listed speakers list on the festival website.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old comedian, who shot to fame with the BBC<\/a> sketch show Little Britain, is one of the country’s best-selling children’s writers.<\/p>\n

He has written more than 40 books, which have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and been translated into 55 languages, according to his website.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson for HarperCollins UK said it had decided not to release any new titles by Walliams<\/a> “after careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO”.<\/p>\n

“HarperCollins takes employee well-being extremely seriously and has processes in place for reporting and investigating concerns,” they added.<\/p>\n

“To respect the privacy of individuals, we do not comment on internal matters.”<\/p>\n

In a statement later on Friday, a spokesperson for the comedian and children’s author said: “David has never been informed of any allegations raised against him by HarperCollins.<\/p>\n

“He 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.”<\/p>\n

The news followed a report from The Daily Telegraph that Walliams was dropped after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Walliams has been removed from the line-up for a children’s book event. Book retailer Waterstones has confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-205577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}