Not to feel sorry for David Walliams?

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And to think that if he's going to be rude and indecent while wearing a microphone on set that you don't have an expectation of privacy?

And suicidal thoughts, my arse.

He's just sorry he got caught.

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Oh yes, that's useful, thank you!

Horrible man

Its perfectly proportionate for him to feel dreadful, when he’s acted so dreadfully.

Id feel full of self-loathing if I were him too.

Mr Walliams says that up to the present time, his lost earnings amount to £1,765,290.50

Poor bugger. I can probably find him the 50p down the back of my sofa.

Cry me a river

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

In light of Russel Brand, misogynistic and sexist presenters need to be stamped out.

I certainly don't

I agree. I work in employment law and there is a concept of extension of the workplace. So basically there are circumstances where even if you are not at work your behaviour can be seen as happening at work- so training events, work Christmas parties, even a pub close to your work with lots of colleagues can be seen as an extension of the workplace. My point being that the things he said would be seen as bringing his employer into disrepute even had they not been said literally in his workplace. Any employer would discipline someone for saying this type of thing at work.

Things that are no defence in employment law are 'it was a private conversation', 'everyone talks like that, it's part of the culture', 'it was a joke''I was letting off steam'. All of which he uses as an excuse.

He is absolutely right about being recorded without his knowledge and the recordings being kept being wrong. That isn't on. Everyone who is mic'ed up regularly for work knows you can turn the mic off when you go to the toilet though. Plus it's actually a different issue to what he said.

I remember being missed up for a huge international Skype call once. We were hanging around before it started and a colleague said something terrible. He went to the control box and it had been recorded- he had to beg the technician to delete it as we had been told our microphones weren't recording at that time.

I'm sure he has had suicidal thoughts though- because he's lost a lot of money,power and kudos through his own stupidity.

I have not one iota of sympathy for him.

He has always come across as a creepy perv.
So much so I thought he was credible as the mystery celeb before Russell brand story broke.

Agree it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy....

I'm a bit confused about the private conversation part, from what I heard on the news he was saying he had all sorts of private conservations, about religion, his child, divorce etc, but why would you leave your mic on? Did he leave it on whilst he went to the loo as well?! But the guardian article the bbc one above links too says they were recording in-between audition takes to potentially make like a blooper show or whatever so he would have know he was being recorded.

"worries that other private and personal matters my be leaked"

Yeah, I bet he is.

Also, "fears that what he says and does may be recorded and leaked without his consent".

Whilst I agree that private information shouldn't be leaked without consent, if he didn't say such vile things, then there wouldn't be any impetus to leak anything.

I don't understand why people like him and Russell Brand keep getting employed?

Disgusting man. His kids books should be banned - they’re borderline racist and laugh at the fat, the poor and single mums. Trying to produce a generation of kids as ignorant as he is.

He can fuck off to the far side of forever

Always thought he was smarmy and awful

Yep, same here. I was honestly surprised when it was RB and not DW. I'm sure his time will come, but until then I wish he and his books would disappear.

Interestingly, the man who phoned me on Monday, offering to fix my broadband, introduced himself as David Walliam (no 's'). So maybe he has fallen on hard times? I didn't stay to chat.

I've been thinking for a while that he is likely to be next in line for all kinds of unpleasant stories coming out of the woodwork. No idea if he's actually a paedo or anything, but he's a sexist, racist, classist perv, and creepy at that. I'm pretty sure he has pulled other guys' trousers and pants down on stage, against their wishes. Vile man.

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Not sorry for him at all. We'll be expected to feel sorry for Laurence Fox next. He has no manners or idea of how to behave - I believe those disgusting comments were made in front of female judges - whether he considers his company to be 'friends' or not. I wouldn't want a male friend like that, and men (or women for that matter) who talk like that in the workplace should be reported.

I don’t believe this is anything to do with BGT.

No sympathy for him at all but it sounds like the whole panel is pretty nasty about contestants and that there is a culture of bitchy, nastiness, looking down at the public, amongst them. Time it was closed down. I stopped watching it years ago.

Diddums.

He's a complete sleaze unworthy of my tiniest violin.

going against the grain but there's something truly sinister about sound engineers (or whoever it was) leaking private conversations. Of course you're going to say off the cuff things during an entire day- you're not going to be fully on your guard- and you shouldn't have to be.
What he said about the female contestant was horrible but I'd argue that we all say nasty things- it's human nature to gossip and sometimes rather brutally if to friends.
Imagine someone told you they'd recorded everything you'd said today and intended to publicise it? I know I wouldn't be feeling very relaxed!