{"id":681372,"date":"2026-11-11T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/681372\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:04:11","slug":"irish-booksellers-remove-david-walliams-books-from-shelves-after-published-accusations-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/681372\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish booksellers remove David Walliams books from shelves after published accusations \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Irish booksellers have decided to withdraw from sale books written by British comedian David Walliams<\/a>, one of the bestselling children\u2019s authors in Ireland, following allegations that he used his status to prey on young women for sex.<\/p>\n

An episode of Ryan Tubridy<\/a>\u2019s book-related podcast, which featured Walliams, also appeared to have been removed from platforms.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, it was revealed that the Little Britain star, who denies any wrongdoing, has been accused by multiple women<\/a> of using his power and status to prey on young women and teenagers for sex.<\/p>\n

After a joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV News was published, Walliams\u2019s books appeared to have vanished from the shelves of some major Irish retailers.<\/p>\n

Hodges Figgis on Dawson Street, Dublin, removed Walliams\u2019s titles from its shelves on Tuesday, staff told The Irish Times.<\/p>\n

It appeared a similar move was made across the Waterstones chain of stores. A spokeswoman for Waterstones, which owns Hodges Figgis, said: \u201cAs HarperCollins ceased supply of all David Walliams\u2019s existing books, we are in touch with them about returning the small number of copies which remain in stock in a few of our shops in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publisher severed ties<\/a> with the author in December.<\/p>\n

There was also a noticeable gap among authors whose surnames begin with \u201cW\u201d on the children\u2019s shelves in Dubray on Grafton Street<\/a>, though a selection of about 10 of Walliams\u2019s titles remained available in the flagship Eason store on O\u2019Connell Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eason<\/a>, which also owns Dubray, did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Walliams is the third bestselling children\u2019s author on record in Ireland, ahead of Harry Potter author JK Rowling, according to data from NielsenIQ BookData, which measures sales.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0David Walliams: What are the legal issues around his attempt to stop allegations being published?Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Since records on print volume sales began in 2002, Walliams has sold about 1.9 million copies in Ireland, amounting to \u20ac19.5 million in value.<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old is behind only Jeff Kinney, the US author behind the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, who has sold 2.1 million print copies, and Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, who has sold 2.5 million.<\/p>\n

Walliams reached widespread success with his range of children\u2019s books, selling more than 60 million copies worldwide and spanning 55 languages.<\/p>\n

He appeared on the first episode of The Bookshelf with Ryan Tubridy, a podcast sponsored by Eason, in April 2024.<\/p>\n

However, on Tuesday, the episode appeared to have been removed from major streaming platforms Spotify and Apple Podcasts.<\/p>\n

It is not clear when the episode was removed. Neither representatives for Tubridy nor Eason responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several Irish booksellers have decided to withdraw from sale books written by British comedian David Walliams, one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56204,173551,93,61,60,288166],"class_list":["post-681372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-david-walliams","tag-eason","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-waterstones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681372","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=681372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}