David Walliams (1 Viewer)

[Flying Fokker]

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

 

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[Sky_Blue_Daz]

Something bigger on the horizon

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

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"

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

He's always come across as a bit weird tbf.

 

[Captain Dart]

 

[Captain Dart]

Something bigger on the horizon

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.

 

[mmttww]

Do we need to talk about deporting comedians?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Do we need to talk about deporting comedians?

To be fair we could do with deporting a number of these ‘comedians’

David Williams
Matt Lucas
Michael McIntyre
Jimmy Carr
Kevin Bishop

Especially the last one.

 

[rob9872]

To be fair we could do with deporting a number of these ‘comedians’

David Williams
Matt Lucas
Michael McIntyre
Jimmy Carr
Kevin Bishop

Especially the last one.

Wtf has David Williams done?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Wtf has David Williams done?

Auto corrected my posts is what

 

[Alkhen]

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

 

[mmttww]

could do with deporting a number of these ‘comedians’

 

[Sky_Blue_Daz]

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

 

[fatso]

There's always been something a little "odd" about David Walliams IMHO.

Put it this way, you wouldn't want him anywhere near children unsupervised.

 

[alexccfc99]

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

 

[rob9872]

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

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'.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Something bigger on the horizon

Something about it being kept in the Family?

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

Little Britain had it's moments

Matt Lucas was the talent and completely carried David Walliams

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[Grendel]

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]

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

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

 

[olderskyblue]

Auto corrected my posts is what

The bastard. Seems fair to deport him then…

 

[mrfr]

What is it about white British men in comedy that has radicalised so many of them to behave so appallingly? There should be a judge-led inquiry.

 

[Sick Boy]

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

It was shite.

 

[ajsccfc]

I'll give credit to him. A lot of people put their names on books that are ghost written and take the credit but I do believe his children's books are from his own pen, because they're absolute dog shit.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

The woke agenda gone mad

 

[mrfr]

The woke agenda gone mad

Do you miss the good old days when you could be a sexual predator and still write children’s fiction?

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Do you miss the good old days when you could be a sexual predator and still write children’s fiction?

Yes and be a Nazi like Walt Disney.

Leftie’s of today would have cancelled him

 

[mrfr]

Yes and be a Nazi like Walt Disney.

Leftie’s of today would have cancelled him

Is thinking sexual predators and nazis shouldn’t be around children a left-wing perspective? I would’ve thought that would be a pretty universal point of view across the political spectrum but maybe Overton window has veered into nonce apologism without me noticing.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Is thinking sexual predators and nazis shouldn’t be around children a left-wing perspective? I would’ve thought that would be a pretty universal point of view across the political spectrum but maybe Overton window has veered into nonce apologism without me noticing.

The left also tried to cancel Kendo Nagasaki for not actually being Japanese.

 

[mrfr]

What does that have to do with you thinking David Walliams should be allowed to hang around kids?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

What does that have to do with you thinking David Walliams should be allowed to hang around kids?

He’s messing around with you…

 

[mrfr]

He’s messing around with you…

I know, I was just wondering how far he was willing to go to defend a sex pest.

 

[Ccfc_Addy]

It's been an open secret within the entertainment industry for many, many years that Walliams is a massive pervert and pest as well as just generally being a rude dickhead.

As is always the way with this country, scores of people with influence were happy to turn the other way as long as he was bringing the money in. He's just an up-and-down regrettable human being and I hope he gets what's coming to him.

 

[rob9872]

I know, I was just wondering how far he was willing to go to defend a sex pest.

In unrelated news, has our ex-drummer gone to court yet? Is he banged up on remand or out on bail?

 

[rob9872]

It's been an open secret within the entertainment industry for many, many years that Walliams is a massive pervert and pest as well as just generally being a rude dickhead.

As is always the way with this country, scores of people with influence were happy to turn the other way as long as he was bringing the money in. He's just an up-and-down regrettable human being and I hope he gets what's coming to him.

Nothing wrong with being a generally rude dickhead, I've forged an amateur career from it. Pervert and pest probably a bit too far though