David Walliams

I watched the ITV documentary today and all the women featured had the same story to tell.
He would groom them and then tried it on. It was bad, not as bad as Brand, but he still pushed his luck and was far too handsy when it was all unwelcome attention. He felt he was invincible and nobody would say anything.
The comments by other comedians only endorsed that they knew what he was like , but it was seen as a bit of joke that he could have so many women ‘ friends’ as he called them. He was a sexual predator, but under the guise of the nice man trying to help the young get jobs or move into the industry. It was a tough watch. So many of these men operate the same way too, win trust and then exploit them.
So manipulative.

Typical Guardian referring to children - girls - as young women to minimise it.

You often see the BBC/guardian/etc referring to 18/19 year old rapists as boys ‘having sex with young women’ where the ‘young women’ are as young as 12 or 13 and it is rape not ‘sex’.

And here is some more warning - from 2015 which is shocking when you think Walliams was dressed as an elf and promoting his book amongst schoolchildren last year, 10 years later:

'Whatever you do, don't invite David Walliams, and FYI if you are speaking to head teachers or teachers, please inform them that he's not a good booking, not an appropriate booking for a school'."

David Walliams: Author Chloe Combi says there were 'real concerns' about him in publishing industry - BBC News

I am actually staggered at the amount of evidence the teenage girls have provided - a card, emails, photos. Show your partner the Guardian article:

‘It wasn’t long until he asked me if I’d ever had sex before’: David Walliams accused of preying on young women for sex | David Walliams | The Guardian

DH and I are disagreeing as he’s angry that DW has been named without any charges being proved. I’m angry that men are behaving like this. DH said there’s no evidence that he ever behaved like this. Obviously #metoo and #ibelieveyou passed him by completely

I think there should be some specific legislation to state you can report any harassment, threats and abuse if you have signed an NDA and you don’t need evidence to do so.

So what is the NDA then? Not meaning to be thick I just dont understand how it works, so I just get issued with an NDA by someone? And its enforceable?

What they seem to do is 'assume' that you are going to sell your story to the media and take that as an opportunity to frighten you. It is not a good way of using the law but neither are the injunctions. Walliams and Brand have millions so they just automatically go to Schillings, or one of the others.

It is not in the interest of the public and, as Justine Smith said in the podcast I share earlier, the perpetrators are then free to target other victims.

They can’t, all that can happen is he can sue her for libel. It’s not like a criminal conviction

I dont understand though, under what law or legislation can they say there is a civil offence being committed if she speaks about it?

Yes and no

I think we need to bear in mind there are lots of abusers and more often than not, they're not superior or have any status. The only thing they have in common is that they are men.

We do tend to hear about the celeb ones/famous ones, teachers, nurses, police officers, barristers, because they'll make news.

The binman down the road or the homeless bloke, doesnt tend to make the news

Reality is, men dont actually need status to do this or get away with it.

Look at the grooming scandals, just cabbies, no status, not high class people.

Yes it is chilling to receive this letter - they are very young women - this from the Guardian article:

The letter was written by Jenny Afia, a renowned lawyer specialising in reputation management for the law firm Schillings. .... She also acted for Walliams. Afia wrote to the young woman, who was 19 at the time: “You are at a significant risk of committing a serious civil offence should you disclose, to the press or any other third party, private information or purported private information concerning our client.”
A spokesperson for Schillings said they had been instructed to write the letter as they had understood that the woman was going to “sell her story”, which Walliams believed was “an untruthful account”. Walliams’ lawyers add that he was concerned about the impact such a story could have on his family.
The legal letter demanded a written undertaking within 24 hours that the woman would not talk about her experience with Walliams. She had no representation and Sarah says she was shaken by the threat.
“If that was me, I’d have freaked out,” Sarah says. Looking back, she wonders if such action had a chilling effect on other women speaking out. “I think all this should have come out a long time ago.”

The Private Eye podcast also says how quick Brand was to resort to legal firms to shut anything down. This firm Schillings they say words to the effect "yes, it would be them".

Nothing much most likely. Most NDAs aren’t really enforceable. But most people aren’t willing to take the risk, especially if they are young and work in an industry where powerful men can see to it that you never work again.

I dont understand these NDA's actually, who says the person cant disclose anything or talk to a therapist? What happens if they do?

I picked up two novels by Ben Elton and the first one had so many yuk references to teenage girls in skirts. I skim read those sections then found the second novel did the same. He seems obsessed.

Right. I listened to it and totally missed that. Ta.

On the podcast Justine Smith says: "I've spoken to one of the alleged victims in one of them; she's prepared to speak publicly and be named, but we still can't publish that."

Have you listened to the podcast where Justine Smith says: "I've spoken to one of the alleged victims in one of them; she's prepared to speak publicly and be named, but we still can't publish that."

Daily Star is pretty clear in its reporting too.

Urgh - this video is 'Little Britain in Australia', I think it's a documentary about their tour there, the opening 14 seconds is so gross I stopped it there and decided not to proceed any further.

Oh, then I totally agree. Walliams was obvious from the docket register reported elsewhere. "Lee" was obvious after a few hours of working out shared histories. This one will require diving into CE-File and then searching archived notices again like for Walliams and frankly, this time I'm going to wait for someone on Reddit to do it.

It doesn’t say it’s women.

the thing is people are guessing anyone associated with walliams. But it could be anyone, from David Beckham on. Clearly not insinuating it’s him, but the point is it could be anyone, it doesn’t need to be someone who was mates qirh walliams.

Not doubting you, but where does it say the victims are assaults on women?

There's the Evelyn Scott comments, but no reason to suggest its the same perp.

Which is exactly what I was referring to where half the suggestions of who it could be named gay men despite the allegations being assault on women.

Yes, the journalist Justine Smith (in the podcast I shared above) alleged that there’s another man who has obtained an injunction. She alleges the man has ‘multiple, multiple victims’.

The daily mail are saying there is another person with an injunction.