Where is Matt Lucas?

I'm all for everyone being held to account but I think it's a bit mad to expect Lucas to make any kind of public statement until it's clear what is being alleged.

At the moment being 'sexually inappropriate' seems it. I don't doubt there will be more but if I was Lucas' legal advisor I'd say speak out publicly when it is clear what is being alleged.

I think there’s more names to come out, anyone living the lad culture in the 90’s must be worried. There’s other high profile names that make me uneasy.
On a different subject, Chris Evan’s was nearly twice the age of Billie Piper when he married her.

That’s how abuse thrives. We need to keep this topic in the table with a very bright light shining on it.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children and women is a significant issue and needs to be tackled more robustly. Men, and it is mostly men, not all men but nearly always men, need to learn. The non offenders and good men need to feel compelled to mobilise and call out behaviour that objectifies, de-humanises, threatens, belittles and harms women and children.

You trying to shame the OP for going on about it is part of the wider systemic pattern of the conversation being shut down to avoid discomfort or protect abusers.

No. We NEED to keep talking.

There are rumours about him.

Child sexual abuse is not ‘inappropriate’ it’s abhorrent and illegal - a 15 year old child was (allegedly) sexually assaulted by a powerful middle aged man. That’s CSA.

Interestingly he was on Taskmaster. He was awful.

I would expect he knew what David was like and was aware of his behaviour, which in my book, makes him complicit.

Are you serious?

No. We make the perpetrators more fearful so THEY change their behaviour. We stop putting the onus on potential victims to keep themselves safe. And it’s only the celebrities we hear about of course.

I said publicly that is all that is being said at the moment.

Lucas may well speak out a police investigations are underway and allegations are clear.

Yes I bet he's sweating. Didn't he used to take his clothes off at work and you're right he was there in the middle of the 'Loaded' style lads culture in the 90s.

He's still a friend and working with Walliams.

He is and one of the same. Probably has a gag order to stop it being made public

Why isn't there a public campaign to stop celebrities abusing and raping people, underage or no?

There. Fixed it for you.

ML has had his own allegations to deal with, and was quick to use a very heavy handed lawyer to silence a young man who was talking online about his alleged experience with him,who had all of his electronic devices removed by police. He won’t comment because he doesn’t want to draw any attention to himself. He absolutely will have known what Walliams was up to but the golden rule when you are at the top of your game and making lots of money for yourself, agents, promoters and TV companies is to shut up and don’t rock the boat.

We need to be aware that this is happening in workplaces all over the country.

boys can be victims too, gays can be paedophiles too.

I was just thinking yesterday it would not at all surprise me if Matt Lucas was outed as a predator next

If there's a responsibility to police the sexual relationships of our friends and colleagues then it applies to both men and women.

A woman I used to work with years ago pretended she had cancer to defraud a charity. Should I make a public statement denying all knowledge?

Some women did call it out, but weren’t listened to. In a world of misogyny/patriarchy men need to be standing up and calling out this behaviour

Did you know she was doing it at the time?

I quite agree @sittingonabeach but not just men.

Did Matt Lucas?

This . Piers acts like the affable chap down the pub... far from it

If it had been one off behaviour possibly not, but this sounds like a way of life for DW, so I would be amazed if a close work colleague/friend would not know. It’s not like they worked 9-5 in an office and didn’t see each other outside work. They would have spent a large amount of time together working on LB etc.

The ‘joke’ JR made at that awards ceremony pretty much confirms there were at least rumours about his behaviour so I can’t believe ML knew nothing

Tell that to the victims.

I thought exactly the same. They won’t face the same scrutiny because there’s two women involved though. Absolutely ridiculous expecting everyone who’s worked with him to make a statement over something that hasn’t been proven yet.