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Flying Fokker

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David Walliams dropped by book publisher HarperCollins

Walliams is one of the UK's most successful children's authors, having sold more than 60 million books.
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Dropped by HarperCollins
In 2025, HarperCollins terminated their contract with Walliams following a year-long investigation into alleged inappropriate behaviour towards young women at the company, during which one employee was given a five-figure payoff and female staff were advised to only visit him in pairs.[11] No new titles by Walliams will be published by the company.[11] In 2018, Walliams's books constituted 44% of all sales of HarperCollins children's titles, generating revenue of £100 million by 2019, but in the summer of 2025 sales of his books fell by 60%.[11] HarperCollins had recently replaced Charlie Redmayne as CEO with Kate Elton.[11
 
Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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They must be pretty sure there's something there to want to disassociate themselves as his books sell very well.

I'm sure lots of people have heard/seen the rumours online of behaviour like this for a little while now. I think he's always been quite creepy and all that charity stuff just screamed 'trying to bolster his image to hide something"
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz said:
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There are now shit loads of short videos of him on twitter behaving oddly towards members of the public on stage with him.
Also some Barry Cryer quotes that were not very complimentary about him. There is a lot of hate for the man. 🍿
 
Alkhen

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Should be locked up for the books alone 🤮 my lad went through a phase of bringing them home from school. They were dross with a fart fixation, desperately trying to copy Roald Dahl (also a bit of a wrong un apparently) but the plots were crap and they had none of the charm
 
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Sky_Blue_Daz

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A friend from work went to see Rob Beckett at the Warwick arts centre a few weeks back, and he mentioned David Walliams was the next celeb to be named in a scandal a couple of times
 
alexccfc99

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Little Britain had it's moments - Although it has aged absolutely terribly, granted

But Walliams has always come across as a bit strange in interviews, I have never subjected myself to Britain's Got Talent but my Nan (always a great judge of character) hated him on it
 
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alexccfc99 said:
Little Britain had it's moments - Although it has aged absolutely terribly, granted

But Walliams has always come across as a bit strange in interviews, I have never subjected myself to Britain's Got Talent but my Nan (always a great judge of character) hated him on it
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I imagine Come Fly with me has probably aged even worse, but I absolutely loved it. Really strong characters and very funny at the time. Might see if I can find it to rewatch and see if it still resonates, despite being 'cancelled'.
 
Grendel

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Wyken Sky Blue said:
Matt Lucas was the talent and completely carried David Walliams

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They were both shite and Little Britain was a pathetic attempt at imitating League of Gentlemen
 
alexccfc99

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Grendel said:
They were both shite and Little Britain was a pathetic attempt at imitating League of Gentlemen
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Some of it was funny for me - The Government Aide and the Prime Minister sketches (Which was quite evidently based on Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair) was genius and so was Vicky Pollard

Some of it was utter trash though I will give you that
 
Sick Boy

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alexccfc99 said:
Little Britain had it's moments - Although it has aged absolutely terribly, granted

But Walliams has always come across as a bit strange in interviews, I have never subjected myself to Britain's Got Talent but my Nan (always a great judge of character) hated him on it
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It was shite.
 
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