{"id":192235,"date":"2025-12-19T19:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:30:08","slug":"david-walliams-dropped-by-harpercollins-uk-after-behaviour-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192235\/","title":{"rendered":"David Walliams dropped by HarperCollins UK after behaviour allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAfter careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO [Kate Elton], HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams,\u201d a spokesman for the publisher told the BBC.<\/p>\n

The broadcaster also reported that it\u2019d asked for comment from representatives of Walliams, whose books have sold more than 60 million copies across 55 languages worldwide.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old toured New Zealand last year, including a surprise appearance on Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking Breakfast.<\/p>\n

Walliams had met Hosking and his wife, Kate Hawkesby<\/a>, in London the previous year, joking with the radio host, \u201cI remember Kate, but not you … still married?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ComedianComedian David Walliams made a surprise appearance on the Mike Hosking Breakfast last year. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n

Before his Kiwi tour, Walliams told ZB\u2019s Real Life with John Cowan he\u2019d bring spontaneity, adult themes and rude humour to his live shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple of Little Britain characters appear in the show. It\u2019s not crude, but obviously, there\u2019s some\u2026 adult themes and slightly rude things.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was \u201cconstantly reminding myself how lucky I am\u201d, Walliams told Cowan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went from playing to three people, to playing to 10,000 people. People don\u2019t really see the journey. They\u2019re obviously not really aware of you until you\u2019re successful.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we remember, and it\u2019s a pretty amazing journey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO [Kate Elton], HarperCollins UK has decided not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,26676,1558,44183,3595,6284,28157,20211,156,48480,16133,1073,111,139,69,1523,26268,5352,21419,1613,119743,2248,4741],"class_list":["post-192235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-allegations","tag-been","tag-behaviour","tag-by","tag-david","tag-dropped","tag-dumped","tag-entertainment","tag-harpercollins","tag-inappropriate","tag-media","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-publisher","tag-reporting","tag-towards","tag-uk","tag-walliams","tag-women","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}