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David Walliams

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mrpenny · Yesterday 12:16

To Think it could not have been DW??

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likelysuspect · Yesterday 21:27

BoredZelda · Yesterday 21:01

This is my question. Reading the reports, he sailed close to the line mostly. Other than that it’s all about his proclivities for young women which everyone knew already. His reputation for harassment was also well publicised. Given how hard he tried to stop it, I had expected something more explosive. So far it’s very much “fork found in kitchen”

Yes, thats how it seems to me. He could have saved himself lots of money, most of his sanity by saying publish and be damned

Then just ride it out, apologise for misdeeds and say he would comply with any police investigation if there is one (and there isnt).

He's caused a lot of problems for himself with the Streisand Effect.

Koriko · Yesterday 21:29

I've loathed him since I watched him being dreadful to Miranda Hart on the Big Fat Quiz. He was such a jerk the other comedians noted and went after him. Hope Miranda is having an excellent evening.

BruFord · Yesterday 21:29

Whatever happens, I feel really sorry for his son. His Mum has been diagnosed with breast cancer and now this.

boredandgrand · Yesterday 21:33

mrpenny · Yesterday 20:32

ANother one who missed the point….

Maybe reflect that your opening post missed the mark?

mrpenny · Yesterday 21:34

boredandgrand · Yesterday 21:33

Maybe reflect that your opening post missed the mark?

I will reflect. I will do that. I’m so sorry. I can’t type well.
Enough now?

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mrpenny · Yesterday 21:36

boredandgrand · Yesterday 21:33

Maybe reflect that your opening post missed the mark?

480 replies in this thread and about ten moaning.

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the80sweregreat · Yesterday 21:36

I feel sorry for his son and for Brands children as well.
I also feel for the victims as they have to live with all this forever. It’s all just so sad and so avoidable by men keeping it in their trousers and behaving like decent human beings. They don’t seem to think about their children or other family members either. It’s all so depraved isn’t it and nothing will ever change because it’s been going on forever.

BrickMaker · Yesterday 21:37

ohyesiseethatnow · Yesterday 20:50

No, you haven’t read what I wrote.

The 15 year old is different. I said that above in black and white. Please don’t try and make out that I’m excusing that, please just read what I actually wrote.

The girl who stayed for the weekend with her friend and went to the spa. She was how old? 17? 18? So above the age of consent. And you can’t say he was going to rape her, that’s pure conjecture. He didn’t actually do anything.

The girl is looking back with hindsight and realising she had been niave in going there. It doesn’t make him a criminal.

I don't agree and laws are arbitrary and could change. I was essentially groomed and harrassed as a 17 yr old by a 40 year old man, very similar ages to here. The whole experience almost derailed me. As an adult I realise how wrong and how damaging it was. No man age over 18 should be anywhere near a child (which is a person under 18). The age of consent really needs to change and in fact in many states in America this would be considered Stat Rape.

TouchMyBumThisIsLife · Yesterday 21:40

DarkAngel23 · Yesterday 19:35

Does that really matter? He was a grown man, who positioned himself as a trusted adult to groom and sexually assaulted a minor. He wasn’t a 16 yr old boy having a sexual encounter with his close in age girlfriend.

It’s comments like these that make me know that I can never report the older man who drugged and manipulated me into sex at the same age.

I only asked that question because 16 is the age of consent. 15 isn't.

There is a line in the sand at 16.

15 is a child. It does matter.

likelysuspect · Yesterday 21:41

DoNotWalkInTheRain · Yesterday 17:33

So have many things 'aged badly' - comedy, films, literature - both classic and popular. Just because something doesn't fit the exact set of moral and cultural values that are deemed 'right' and 'acceptable' in 2026, doesn't mean they have no value.

I really dislike the need to view everything through the lens of the present. In twenty years' time, there will be things that are popular now that people will say have 'aged badly'. Does that mean we should be wary of enjoying anything at all, in case by 2046 we are no longer allowed to enjoy it?

I do not need people to censor my entertainment for me. I am an adult, I understand historical context and changing values, I can apply my own filters where it's needed.

Me too. I loved LB then and I enjoy clips of it now. There were some sketches that were not to my taste but thats personal taste

Comedy is stereotypical, offensive, puerile, pathos, slapstick, ironic, sarcastic and a whole lot more.

I actually always felt Matt Lucas was quite uncomfortable to watch and look at, that started for me when he was on Shooting Stars.

Scarcityvarcity · Yesterday 21:43

He is obviously a sleeze. It sounds like he has been careful not to do anything illegal but hopefully his career is over

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:43

likelysuspect · Yesterday 21:41

Me too. I loved LB then and I enjoy clips of it now. There were some sketches that were not to my taste but thats personal taste

Comedy is stereotypical, offensive, puerile, pathos, slapstick, ironic, sarcastic and a whole lot more.

I actually always felt Matt Lucas was quite uncomfortable to watch and look at, that started for me when he was on Shooting Stars.

What the hell was funny about a man in a wheelchair constantly saying yer I know and people being sick.

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:44

Scarcityvarcity · Yesterday 21:43

He is obviously a sleeze. It sounds like he has been careful not to do anything illegal but hopefully his career is over

It dosent matter financially he's made enough money to live on forever.

nomas · Yesterday 21:44

TouchMyBumThisIsLife · Yesterday 21:40

I only asked that question because 16 is the age of consent. 15 isn't.

There is a line in the sand at 16.

15 is a child. It does matter.

Yep and he was checking in with these girls until they turned of age.

He had his own personal The Sun countdown calendar going.

nomas · Yesterday 21:45

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:44

It dosent matter financially he's made enough money to live on forever.

It does matter. To be out of the public eye is a near death for this type of celebrity.

Look at Huw Edwards, he can’t let go.

Scarcityvarcity · Yesterday 21:45

nomas · Yesterday 21:44

Yep and he was checking in with these girls until they turned of age.

He had his own personal The Sun countdown calendar going.

Yes. He was very careful to make sure he couldn't be prosecuted.

Scarcityvarcity · Yesterday 21:46

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:44

It dosent matter financially he's made enough money to live on forever.

It's probably not just the money that's important to him.

TouchMyBumThisIsLife · Yesterday 21:47

Stowickthevast · Yesterday 19:14

How close would make it acceptable? I think you're missing the point!

The point is the age of consent.

That IS the point.

likelysuspect · Yesterday 21:50

nomas · Yesterday 21:45

It does matter. To be out of the public eye is a near death for this type of celebrity.

Look at Huw Edwards, he can’t let go.

What is Hew Edwards doing?

nomas · Yesterday 21:51

likelysuspect · Yesterday 21:50

What is Hew Edwards doing?

He has started blogging.

colouringindoors · Yesterday 21:51

colouringindoors · Yesterday 21:17

https://www.youtube.com/live/9UwfKUGeALM?is=Gah9QT0AahaZF0Yo

Cathy Newman interviewing Lucy Beaumont - one of the whistleblowers.

Highly recommend. She talks a lot about Safeguarding which is 100%

She also says one of the teenage girls who visited Walliams' dressing room signed an NDA preventing her from speaking to Anyone inc family, GP, therapist. Disgusting.

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:51

nomas · Yesterday 21:45

It does matter. To be out of the public eye is a near death for this type of celebrity.

Look at Huw Edwards, he can’t let go.

He could go abroad and do stuff. They don't worry about things so much.

nomas · Yesterday 21:53

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:51

He could go abroad and do stuff. They don't worry about things so much.

They do worry. To be out of the media luvvy world is devastating for them. Hence the suicidal attempts.

He wasn’t attempting suicide due to shame. He was doing it because he knows he is being cast out of his rarefied world.

Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 21:54

nomas · Yesterday 21:53

They do worry. To be out of the media luvvy world is devastating for them. Hence the suicidal attempts.

He wasn’t attempting suicide due to shame. He was doing it because he knows he is being cast out of his rarefied world.

You don't know why ..

VanCleefArpels · Yesterday 21:55

BrickMaker · Yesterday 21:37

I don't agree and laws are arbitrary and could change. I was essentially groomed and harrassed as a 17 yr old by a 40 year old man, very similar ages to here. The whole experience almost derailed me. As an adult I realise how wrong and how damaging it was. No man age over 18 should be anywhere near a child (which is a person under 18). The age of consent really needs to change and in fact in many states in America this would be considered Stat Rape.

Seriously? So two sixth formers one of whom is 18 and the other 17 shouldn’t have a sexual relationship?

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