David Walliams

Or having excellent taste.

What Walliams has done, over and over again, is sexual exploitation of a child if they are under 18:

https://ivisontrust.org.uk/infoadvice/if-your-child-is-over-16-years-of-age/

Fingers crossed, but civil action in England are pretty much limited to financial loss, so for example if you could show that you needed counselling, you could sue for the costs.

But again it’s not, people need to stick to fhe facts or the thread will be deleted. Not make unfounded allegations, there is one fifteen year old, but he hasn’t sexually exploited any others, or come close to it, there was no sexual contact.

Interestingly someone I know slightly has been very vocal about being appalled that so many of her female followers on Instagram are still following Brand (which I agree with) having spoken out about him before he went to court. However she also lauded Glen Hansard after his death; her late father worked in the Irish music industry and she herself still has friends in the music industry and I can't believe for one moment she's not heard something. She also rushed to defend Noel Clarke the first time there was an accusation having worked with him previously.

Maybe read the guardian allegations article and then this link - it's very easy to see the correlation with how harm has been done.

Well he met his wife when she was 16 and he was 28 or something...

I knew this was coming when his books stopped being published. He always gave me the creeps. He has the same aura as Jimmy Saville.

Urgh why are some men so creepy? I remember when I was 16 and working at next I got a lot of inappropriate comments and touching from a man in his 40s. At the time I thought it was just another gross man to ignore and brush off but looking back it's just disgusting

I can’t see him going to jail, but that depends on what else is to be divulged.
Career wise totally finished though.
I think X Factor in releasing his dodgy comments knew what was in the wind and released his words as a quick way to get rid.

He definitely knew a fair bit about Brand’s character given the Sach’s calls. It’s hard for him to deny that, I wonder if he’d have tried without the airing of those.

It's got to be sexual assault against the boy whose pants he pulled down if nothing else?

I feel the same

I found this article that mentions some of the criticisms of Sean Hughes after he died. Interestingly it singles out Shappi Khorsandi as a prominent comedian who rushed to defend Hughes’s and shut down any discussion of his darker behaviour. Very interesting in light of her recent interview with channel 4 news on her encounters with Russell Brand.

medium.com/@fiona.doughertyprice/sean-hughes-the-disturbing-legacy-of-an-abusive-comedian-e83be42a92ef

Wonder if all those defending Brand, saying he is innocent and it's all a stitch up because he challenged the government and didn't like voting, will see any correlations here....

@IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth If I’d heard the rumours about Hansard then there is no way she wouldn’t have heard as I have no connection to that world at all. I think some times people can’t see past their own experience of a person or they don’t want to undermine their own status.

You'd definitely have to side eye Jonathan Ross at the moment. His close relationship with both Brand and Walliams, that joke at the Comedy Awards and the fact that he met his wife when she was 16. I mean, I realise they've been together for nearly 40 years, and going out with a 26 year old when you were 16 wasn't entirely unusual back then, but still. Hmmmm.

Disgusting pig.

Thing is, the Guardian and ITN are not the police. Has he been arrested and interviewed by the police about the allegations?
I'm no fan of DW but everyone is entitled to a fair hearing. We are not a police state......yet

The guardian and ITN have been itching to do this expose and today it’s done. Risky times if he decides to sue them , but my knowledge of such matters is scant. They must have a lot of evidence or whatever.

He’s no rapist.

The Guardian says he invited loads of younger women out on social media, but he never, ever assaulted any of them.

If this is the best they can do, he’s just a middle-aged sleaze. Not a sex criminal.

I don't agree with the idea that publishing is bad for mental health and therefore don't publish. Someones mental health doesn't take precedence over what they may have done. I find that idea insulting. Its why we have organisations like the Samaritans, who exist to listen and not judge. It was way worse for whoever lived through it. And lets not forget you need money and power to take out an injunction.

You can’t possibly know this,unless you are a close confidante of DW!

Well said @KidsDoBetter, you obviously recognise this incel, as do I, from his engagement on previous threads

It entirely depends on whether the women involved have made complaints to the police. Contacting a minor on social media with the intent of facilitating inappropriate contact is a criminal offence, even if nothing ultimately occurs. But the police can't pursue anything that they haven't received a complaint about.

Nobody should be saying that he should be jailed on foot of a tv documentary. But you don't need to prove a criminal offence in a courtroom to lose your job, or your reputation. And that is what is happening to him here. He is very well off, he won't be destitute.