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Lucy Beaumont offered legal help to woman under Walliams NDA

In a Sky News interview, the comedian describes her role as a whistleblower and calls for an industry-wide system to report misconduct.

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Why this story? One of Sky News's most watched videos since yesterday, with 171,899 views.

Comedian Lucy Beaumont: I offered to pay legal fees for woman who signed Walliams NDA

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0:27Beaumont says a TV worker told her he was asked to take young women to Walliams's dressing room.
2:40She identifies herself as a whistleblower who approached The Guardian and criticises television's safeguarding arrangements.
5:24Beaumont says she offered legal-fee help to a woman whose NDA restricted whom she could speak to.
16:04She proposes a centralised industry system for logging anonymous reports of misconduct.
20:07Newman reads Walliams's response, including his denial of abusing his power or breaking the law.

Lucy Beaumont says she offered to pay legal fees to help a woman who had signed a non-disclosure agreement connected to the allegations against David Walliams.

Speaking to Cathy Newman on Sky News, Beaumont says the agreement restricted the woman from speaking even to friends or a therapist. Walliams denies all allegations and says he has not broken the law.

The interview adds Beaumont's account of trying to help to the wider reporting about Walliams. She says a television worker confided in her three years ago about being asked to take young women to his dressing room. Beaumont later tried to contact one of the women involved.

"I offered to pay legal fees to try and get her some protection..." she tells Newman.

Beaumont also identifies herself as one of the whistleblowers who approached The Guardian. She criticises what she describes as a lack of proper duty of care in television and says she fears that speaking publicly could cost her work: "I honestly don't think I'll work in telly again."

Her proposed response is a centralised industry system where people could log anonymous reports of misconduct. That would give concerns somewhere to go beyond individual productions and informal conversations.

The interview drew about 172,000 views since yesterday, making it Sky News's most-watched new video over that period.

At the close, Newman reads from Walliams's written response to journalists. He acknowledges having behaved thoughtlessly in past casual sexual relationships, but denies abusing his celebrity power or being a sexual predator. Sky says it contacted his representatives about the specific allegations Beaumont raised.

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