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David Walliams

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HappyAmericanBully · 17/09/2023 10:25

Just wondering when it’s going to be his turn? He must absolutely fucking bricking it right now. His books are shit as well.

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Namechangesept · 27/09/2023 08:24

I don’t understand the desperation to believe that Roald Dahl was just ‘of his time.’ I’ve read the actual ‘adult’ stories but they’re so horrific I don’t want to link to them, but here is a review including a summary of one of them - https://newrepublic.com/article/78552/the-miserabilist-roald-dahl “One of the last short stories Dahl ever wrote, “The Last Act,” describes in obscene detail the rape of a menopausal woman by a gynecologist. Dahl cheerfully referred to it as an attempt to describe “murder by fucking.“”

And again, for anyone impressed by his apparent ‘stroke advocacy’ please read how he treated his wife Patricia Neal after her stroke, in “as i am”, I wish i could find my copy to share the part where he rapes her while she is in pain. He was not of his time, he was a violent, vicious misogynist and the evidence is all in public, even if you did like Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

The Miserabilist

Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl By Donald Sturrock (Simon & Schuster, 655 pp., $30) Roald Dahl, the beloved laureate of modern children’s fiction, who often boasted of his uncanny access to the seven-year-old mind, who preening...

https://newrepublic.com/article/78552/the-miserabilist-roald-dahl

MuckyPlucky · 27/09/2023 08:24

Fran2023 · 27/09/2023 08:23

Little Britain was all about punching down. Two white, well educated, privileged men putting up the vulnerable for ridicule. Cruel and nasty.

Jinx!

Nannyfannybanny · 27/09/2023 08:30

Christ I read Enid Blyton as a child, I am in trouble then. Watch out, George Orwell!! I read a lot, several books a week, I love a serial killer (not in real life 😂) I find sex scenes on TV, films offensive, I find the "C" word VERY offensive,am shocked how many women on here use it. No particular thoughts on DW, Father Ted is just drivel.

ThreeLocusts · 27/09/2023 08:31

MuckyPlucky · 27/09/2023 08:24

Jinx!

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double jinx!

ThreeLocusts · 27/09/2023 08:32

Fran2023 · 27/09/2023 08:23

Little Britain was all about punching down. Two white, well educated, privileged men putting up the vulnerable for ridicule. Cruel and nasty.

Um, meant to second/third this. All there is to say about it.

newnamethanks · 27/09/2023 08:33

Agreed @Giggorata a Mumsnet Lunch Mob would be something to behold, am imagining DW being pelted with bread rolls at the least.

Furryrug · 27/09/2023 08:44

@PuppyMonkey his lawyers obviously think he has a case but regarding it being a private conversation, does that mean if , for example, you overhear a colleague making racist comments, you can't report them because it was a private conversation?

Snugglemonkey · 27/09/2023 09:00

Towdalinenow · 26/09/2023 20:44

I hated Little Britain at the time, I was shocked back then how discriminatory and disgusting it was. Now everyone can see it with hindsight. Same goes for Bo Selecta etc. I’m glad people are finally seeing the light and the ugly truth about parts of the entertainment industry is being revealed.

So did I! It was never funny, just nasty and bullying. I hated it.

MuckyPlucky · 27/09/2023 09:01

newnamethanks · 27/09/2023 08:33

Agreed @Giggorata a Mumsnet Lunch Mob would be something to behold, am imagining DW being pelted with bread rolls at the least.

A MN lunch mob would pelt him with naice ham!

Snugglemonkey · 27/09/2023 09:04

Frozenone · 26/09/2023 21:24

Why are people banning his book from their house? Genuine question. Plenty of kids books are rubbish quality so what is it specifically about these - the poor stories or is it a dislike of the author?

We have a stack of them bought cheap from charity shops but we’ve not read them yet, so maybe that’s why there is always loads of them in charity shops!

My son was given a weenix set of 4 as a gift. We read Billionaire Boy, but it had really nasty content about some children. Especially about overweight children. I cannot even remember what else, but we have not read the others.

Towdalinenow · 27/09/2023 09:05

Private conversation or not, saying obscene & offensive things about the show’s contestants, as the face of the show, has brought his employer into disrepute meaning breach of contract. I think he will lose.

Towdalinenow · 27/09/2023 09:08

I’m also wondering how his publisher can turn a blind eye to his disgusting comments about BGT contestants given that he’s a children’s author. Money really does talk eh?

BIossomtoes · 27/09/2023 09:09

Towdalinenow · 27/09/2023 09:05

Private conversation or not, saying obscene & offensive things about the show’s contestants, as the face of the show, has brought his employer into disrepute meaning breach of contract. I think he will lose.

If the show was worried about its reputation it would be concerned about the reporting of a private conversation. I hope he wins. Otherwise there will be no such thing as a private conversation and we’ll take another step towards an Orwellian society.

Ididivfama · 27/09/2023 09:14

I actually quite liked some of his books 😳

but yeah him and matt Lucas, bad eggs

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 27/09/2023 09:16

Towdalinenow · 27/09/2023 09:05

Private conversation or not, saying obscene & offensive things about the show’s contestants, as the face of the show, has brought his employer into disrepute meaning breach of contract. I think he will lose.

Exactly.

I can't think why he's taken this course, which is only serving to highlight and publicise what an arse he is.

He'd have been better off extending his sincerest apologies; to his employers and the contestants, and explaining away his remarks as just part of his snarky humour, which he inadvisability took a little far on occasion.
He might just have got away with it.

Stillwaitingfor · 27/09/2023 09:16

Tick tock, David. Tick tock!

Ididivfama · 27/09/2023 09:16

PuppyMonkey · 27/09/2023 08:38

He’s suing BGT now for data protection issues..https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-david-walliams-sues-bgt-31033925.amp

All a bit strange.

As horrible as these comments are, this doesn’t make him a rapist or anything

commonground · 27/09/2023 09:22

Yes, it's obvs all about the money.

At a time when children's publishing is so 'captured' (for want of a better word) - awash with sensitivity readers and 'authentic' stories and 'allyship' and representation - Walliams is allowed to retain tight editorial control over all his books - why else do you think the content is so dodgy?

He absolutely writes them himself. (I don't know why that is so hard to believe tbh, he is a writer after all, whether he is to your taste or not).

Towdalinenow · 27/09/2023 09:22

@BIossomtoes But when you are at work, being paid by your employer, you need to be careful in all private conversations. You are representing your employer while at work. Where I work, using that language about clients in a private conversation would be gross misconduct.

If this was outside of work, away from work premises, when you’re not being paid, and you’re talking to a colleague who is also a friend, it would not be gross misconduct. But if you posted your views on social media - in your own time - it would be.

As I understand the conversation happened on set, so it likely was treated as gross misconduct and a sackable offence, even though it was a private conversation- they had evidence because it was recorded.

BIossomtoes · 27/09/2023 09:23

He did apologise @TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth. Given the frequency with which MN posters call people cunts the pearl clutching here really is a bit rich.

IDontOftenComment · 27/09/2023 09:23

It’s a bit two faced criticising Walliams for his comments on BGT when Mumsnet is littered with the c word and every other swear word known to man every day.
Either it’s acceptable or it’s not.
I think not.

Moonwatcher1234 · 27/09/2023 09:37

Don’t know much about his personal life but hate his books- so badly written and always something a bit off about them. I hate that just browsing the books aisle in a supermarket has rows of his books
in the kids section (along with Tom gates and wimpy kid) why aren’t far better writers being given that level of exposure?

SabrinaThwaite · 27/09/2023 09:40

BIossomtoes · 27/09/2023 09:23

He did apologise @TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth. Given the frequency with which MN posters call people cunts the pearl clutching here really is a bit rich.

MN users aren’t in a position of power though.

Walliams was.

Americano75 · 27/09/2023 09:41

Namechangesept · 27/09/2023 08:24

I don’t understand the desperation to believe that Roald Dahl was just ‘of his time.’ I’ve read the actual ‘adult’ stories but they’re so horrific I don’t want to link to them, but here is a review including a summary of one of them - https://newrepublic.com/article/78552/the-miserabilist-roald-dahl “One of the last short stories Dahl ever wrote, “The Last Act,” describes in obscene detail the rape of a menopausal woman by a gynecologist. Dahl cheerfully referred to it as an attempt to describe “murder by fucking.“”

And again, for anyone impressed by his apparent ‘stroke advocacy’ please read how he treated his wife Patricia Neal after her stroke, in “as i am”, I wish i could find my copy to share the part where he rapes her while she is in pain. He was not of his time, he was a violent, vicious misogynist and the evidence is all in public, even if you did like Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Edited

The Great Switcheroo and the Uncle Oswald stories too. Jesus.