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Two of the women were 15 when they met him. Walliams denies all wrongdoing, saying in a statement: "I am not a sexual predator".
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David Walliams accused of targeting teens as young as 15
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- 3:24The narrator sets out the three-year ITV News and Guardian investigation and states that Walliams denies the allegations.
- 3:59"Alex", voiced by an actor, describes meeting Walliams at 15 at a 2004 book signing, then calls and letters.
- 15:48"Jade", portrayed by an actor, says he contacted her on MySpace in 2007, when she was 15; he denies sexual contact.
- 22:50Lilly Creightmore speaks on camera about being contacted at 18 after he saw her in a TV audience.
- 47:04HarperCollins staff describe protective workplace rules; at 52:30 the film covers the publisher dropping him.
- 56:11Walliams's denial, "I am not a sexual predator", with statements from ITV and Syco Entertainment.
Alex was 15 when she met David Walliams at a book signing in 2004. She says the phone calls started soon afterwards, with the line: "Hi Alex, it's David Walliams off the telly."
Her account opens David Walliams: Power and Silence, a documentary from a three-year joint investigation by ITV News and The Guardian. Several women in the film say the comedian, children's author and former Britain's Got Talent judge used his fame to pursue them sexually when they were teenagers and young women. An actor voices Alex's words. She says he pressured her into posing for photographs and, when she was 17, into sex at his house. "I think I was groomed, 100%," she says. Walliams denies grooming her and says he believed she was 18.
"Jade", played by an actor, says he contacted her on MySpace in 2007, when she was 15 and he was 36. She describes a meeting in Soho and sexual contact at his house. When she pulled away, she says, he told her they should wait until she turned 16. Walliams denies any sexual contact with her.
Lilly Creightmore speaks on camera. She was 18 when, she says, he tracked her down and repeatedly tried to coerce her into sleeping with him. Later chapters turn to Britain's Got Talent and to HarperCollins, where former staff describe rules brought in to protect junior colleagues. The publisher dropped Walliams in 2025.
The film includes his response: "I am not a sexual predator... I have not broken the law..." He rejects all the allegations, including workplace harassment. He says he had consensual relationships with two women connected to the publisher.
The documentary passed 1.3 million views in its first 16 hours, and comments are arriving about fifty times faster than on a usual first day. ITV News has also posted shorter reports on the workplace accounts, a clip of his response, and an inside account of the investigation called "From allegations to injunction". In its follow-up reporting, the broadcaster says Downing Street called the allegations "deeply troubling", the BBC has announced a review of programmes featuring Walliams, and his agency no longer represents him. According to ITV News, Walliams repeatedly tried to stop the investigation being broadcast.
An English comedian, actor and writer known for Little Britain. He served as a judge on Britain's Got Talent from 2012 to 2022.
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More on Wikipedia ›A British television talent competition broadcast on ITV, part of the international Got Talent franchise created by Simon Cowell.
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