I always get a really horrible gut feeling about David Walliams, and feel he is very sinister. Sometimes is easy to ignore these thoughts about celebrities since we don't really know them, but I do feel often our instincts are right and should be listened to, especially as he's a kids author and all his books are in my child's school classroom and library, and seem popular. I actually don't like the books but the Quentin Blake illustrations elevate their status annoyingly.
Anyway here's another red flag I've just read on the BBC about him making a Nazi salute and also a sexual gesture on a panel show.
It's appalling, and they headline refers to the Nazi salute which is shocking, but also I do thin the sexual gesture is a massive concern - I can't image any man friend I know, or my husband ever making a sexual gesture in so-called jest - it speaks to a mentality which I find entitled and dark.
Has anyone ever some across this man in real life?
AIBU to feel like this is a car crash in slow-motion and one day it will all come out about him? Why oh why are these men constantly employed or given these opportunities (Russell Brand offered similar red flags long before the truth all came out). There must be loads of comedians and performers who would love to go on Would I Lie to You who are NOT obnoxious creeps?
Audience member quoted:
"One part of the show saw Call The Midwife actress Helen George, who took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2015, being given a prompt to suggest she had sprained her wrist "from waving too much during the Strictly tour".
She then had to try to convince the opposing team that her anecdote was true.
After demonstrating the wave, which purportedly left her with an injury, she was told that it was "too little" and was encouraged to make a bigger gesture.
"Some other panellist was talking when David Walliams started doing the Nazi salute," Topan told the BBC. "I was shocked at what I had seen."
There were "patches of quietened gasps and awkward half-laughs and broken clapping" in the audience, they said.
The show's host, Gavin & Stacey star Rob Brydon, then told Walliams the show would be broadcast before the 9pm watershed, effectively suggesting his behaviour was not suitable for a family TV audience.
However, as the discussion about George's experience continued, Walliams made the gesture again, adding a sexual gesture with his other hand."
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