David Walliams dropped by publisher

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Over inappropriate behaviour towards women. Anyone surprised?

Don't have links but several men in showbusiness have been known to do that.
Norm MacDonald (American comedian, SNL) comes to mind, but he did not pretend to be queer. He pretended to be drunk, so he could sidle up to women at the bar or something.

Also Isaac Mizrahi, another witty man whose persona slips in and out of camp, just fully groped Scarlett Johansson's breasts on the red carpet once. On camera, doesn't matter. And Emma Forrest had nothing better to do than hawk up an article in the Guardian in which she points to his "innocence and curiosity" and that his "imagination cannot be contained by the staid red carpet". 🤮

Basically, men are golden retrievers, they don't know what they're doing. 🙈

I mean he literally wished a woman dead for having a different opinion to him, no need for rumours, he operates in plain sight.

A bit like many Ancient Roman men?

Hmm...Mirren did play up her sexual appeal with stuff like Caligula but most of her early films were not like that.

Plus she was primarily acting in RSC at the time which surely wasn't having nude stage productions!

I really think the default attitude to that kind of incident should be that it's abuse. Most cases seem to involve an age and/or power imbalance.
The SiblingsToo podcast discusses this & has pointed out how media portrayals usually show consensual 'brother/sister affairs' for taboo plot lines, rather than the reality which is normally abuse without meaningful consent

Here is an archive link : https://archive.ph/RjuYi

It does give a lot of distressing detail..

We have wondered about this, he was badly bullied by our father who also used to hit him (and me once) with a belt. With me and my sister my dad went in for a lot of psychological abuse, he would ignore one of us for ages while "doting"on the other, and forbid the ignored one to speak to the currently favoured one and then swap the roles he had ordained for us It didn't really work because we loved each other and stuck together, We were not close with our brother although neither of us had disclosed anything to the other. It was a bit of a fucked up childhood.

I’m not sure you know. I just remember my (now very senior) friend telling me
when she worked there. Lots of
stories that won’t surprise you - a lot of chat about how awful James Corden was (not abuse, just being a dick) and a naked chef… who had a wandering eye!

Have I got the right guy? More clues please!

Im so sorry

Thanks for this. Like everything horrific, I want to know why. Is it a lot of education?

Thanks for the link.

I might have a look at it later, when I've stopped putting off all the jobs I'm supposed to be doing and have actually done some of them.

It’s amazing he got to marry Lara who is / was beautiful and a top model. I just looked to remind myself who she was and happily she had a very kind looking and successful new husband.

I can’t believe Lara needed to be in any way ‘transactional’ re: DW.

Same she was very successful in her own right. If that’s what you mean.

Exactly. Although she was quite young at time I think.

That doesn't make it OK. This whole thread seems to be full of people who want to gossip, people saying 'ooooh give me a clue'.

It's disgusting for women on a parenting website to be gossiping about whether someone abused his sister. She has no way of refuting these claims and it must be extremely upsetting for her. She's not famous and so doesn't deserve this type of speculation about her.

But he wanted to put it in his book! Then the nation would have known.

How do you know that for a fact? Where is the evidence? It's just a rumour.

Sure. A man obsessed with his brand, at the peak of his career (2011, when he and his alleged ghostwriter would be writing the book) would want to end his high flying, luxurious lifestyle over something so depraved? Very unlikely.

His sister is older than him. There is a good chance he wanted to reveal it as a cry for help.

This may explain a lot of his problems then.

I’m not sure what you’re reading but why do you think it’s solid and trustworthy?

Is it the one who proclaimed that women cannot enjoy sex? The one who is, quote, a stupid person's idea of a smart person? Whose husband has a thousand yard stare like the survivors of D-Day?

What the actual fuck? So now you are accusing his sister? Absolutely vile.