David Walliams dropped by publisher

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Over inappropriate behaviour towards women. Anyone surprised?

This. I’ve always found him creepy but genuinely thought he was more about the boys.

edited to add - on reflection, the campness/is he gay could be a way of hiding in plain sight wrt his lecheryness towards young women 🤔

To me he has always come across as a creepy sexual deviant/perv rather than a gay man. Just really slimy and makes your skin crawl, that kind of thing.

Google both of their names, it will all come up- here’s one link:
https://theboar.org/2020/07/children-not-reading-david-walliams/

Always knew he was a wrong 'un.

I said a previous thread a while back that, when all the scandal about Huw Edwards broke, before it was revealed who the celebrity was, I was fully expecting to be Walliams. Well, it was only a matter of time.

In Millionaire Boy, the twelve-year-old protagonist has a 24-hour female masseuse.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

What the hell was Harper Collins thinking??????

Sorry yes, I should clarify - I mean a gay predator not a gay man per se

Did he even write them? I thought that he might have had a ghost writer?

He was once in a Stephen Poliakof tv drama called Capturing Mary where he played a social and emotional vampire. It’s the only serious role I remember him taking and I was impressed at the time with his portrayal of the mysterious, soulless character. After the BGT allegations, and with the rumours on here, it seems he was just playing himself.

If you scroll to 3:12 in this video of the pet shop boys on top of the pops in 1994 you will see David Williams camping it up big style well before he was famous, and at a time when you just didn’t do that unless you were actually gay.

i think he’s either bisexual or so far in the closet he has to treat women as total sex objects to try and keep up the pretence

sorry, link:

There have always been rumours of him being inappropriate and harrassing women, so it makes me think that this is something bigger/ different. His podcast with Matt Lucas just suddenly stopped as well.

Gawd that sounds totally how I'd expect him to be. TBF though all articles from NOTW have pretty much vanished, I'm not sure it's fully down to him suppressing it. But yeah he's so arrogant and vile. I think he has quite a severe personality disorder and almost seems like he could be dangerous.

I feel so sorry for his kid.

I think you are right, but over in Daily Mail world practically all the comments on this latest news are all banging on about "the woke" and "cancel culture" and "witch hunt" . I have always found him a bit "off" which of course is neither here nor there, but I am sure there is more to come. Feel sorry for his child (son?), this must be horrible

Who did not expect this? It has been known for years.

I was just trying to remember what that was called, it made a deep impression on me and i always think about it whenever there is a negative story about him.

Yeah, he said something like "I have sensory issues with underwear, and that's why I had to walk around in front of women with my dick exposed"

I hate to admit it but this is us. I never liked him but didnt know the rumours at that time. DS is now 16 and was reading these from about age 7. School were encouraging it -he has all the books and refuses to bin them even now - for 'nostalgia innit'

It makes my skin crawl every time i see them tucked away in the back of his bookshelf.

He takes more notice of instagram than me so fx its all over there

omg what a crock

I hope Greg’s wife has filed for divorce

His fourth wife in case anyone confused which one 😂😂😂

just marrying someone who’s already got it wrong three times is mind blowing

I think he is the sort of person who gets a kick out of the powerlessness of his victims and that their sex is irrelevant

I'm no snob, but DW was one author my daughter was told by her school not to mention at her 11+ interviews.

Because of both poor content and poor writing skills.

(googled it) Correction: he was naked apart from wearing a sock on his erect dick. Not much better.

The way he wrote about his autistic son was horrible too.

Yes this could well be true. I don't know enough about him really, just that I found him unlikeable and couldn't see the appeal of his books.

My local primary refuses to stock DW books. I was pleasantly surprised.

The ones I have read are badly written and have quite inappropriate parts. As well as the female masseuse in Billionaire Boy I also recall the dad having a page 3 girl as a girlfriend and lots of comments about her clothing and body. Totally inappropriate when very young children are reading these books.