David Walliams dropped by publisher

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Over inappropriate behaviour towards women. Anyone surprised?

I did too.

Professionally camp for career reasons. Just like his real name is plain old Williams.

He's a nasty creepy sleazeball fraud from head to toe.

The Bbc platforming a known abuser. Colour me shocked. That whole institute is rotten to the core

I'd love to think it was a new female CEO but it's definitely more likely to be because of the newspaper making allegations with more to come. They jump quickly these days rather than drag it out (Philip Scofield style). The fact they always knew is of course never relevant

And yes camp persona basically to hide his creepiness. Lots of people thought Jimmy Saville was closeted.

He’s always given off incel creep vibes to me.

I always wonder if he’s a deeply closeted gay man and alleged sexual harassment as well as his delight in cross dressing are compensations trying to present a heterosexual front.

He had a fling with SIL’s younger cousin and she’d flown to his LA home and found out she wasn’t the only woman in his life when she was there.

Sexually deviant rather than gay. Probably like things not consensual or even generally condoned by most.

He'll turn up in Thailand or somewhere else where human rights are poor.

You're probably right, sadly.

It’s always the ones you most expect.

How the hell has it taken this long? His long standing 'friend' and co-writer Matt Lucas dropped him like a stone years ago.

He is a nasty, creepy, weird individual who was hiding in plain sight.

I was going to ask if the protection of Walliams (if that's what's happened) could really go that far up in the Murdoch empire, to cross over between a newspaper and Harper Collins.

Then I remembered the way News of The World and the rest of the Murdoch media behaved towards police officers investigating the murder of Daniel Morgan and towards the folks investigating NOTW's phone-hacking. IIRC Murdoch's organisation employed PIs to follow and bug them, and it spent months using its newspapers to monster them in an attempt to shut down the investigations.

So actually the suggestion that the Murdoch empire has been protecting Walliams and that it went so far as to quash a NOTW story about him isn't that surprising.

I shall await what comes out in the wash, of course.

Met him once. Such a creep.

I'm now starting my own personal sweepstake of who will be the next famous (male) creep to finally lose their protection and the silence of those they've abused.

Apart from Huw Edwards - that one took me by surprise

James Corden?

I thought everyone knew about the misogyny of some gay men

And the Downton one.

Oooo tell me more….the racism

See also, the rise and celebration of 'Drag Queens'

I missed that - who was it?

He should have been dropped because he’s just rehashing Roald Dahl.

Don't you remember the super injunction. The papers weren't allowed to refer to it. I think Twitter was the only one we saw here and the American press.

I'll check if it's still under wraps.

The main actor. I don't watch Downton and he's the only name I know. Does that help?

Oh yes I keep saying to people I really don’t like drag for that reason…the beeb seems to really celebrate it - taking the piss out of women!