Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | November 10, 2026
Several weeks ago, reports emerged that a high-profile British celebrity was seeking to block the publication of an investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct. Said celebrity's legal team said that he was at a high risk to suicide were the report to be made public. A judge declared that he investigation "concerns matters of substantial public interest" and found that the court did not have an obligation to protect the celebrity from acts of possible self-harm. The celebrity had until yesterday to file an appeal. He did not. Now, The Guardian has revealed the identity of the celebrity. To the surprise of nobody, it's David Walliams.
The Guardian and ITN News have reported that Walliams "has been accused by multiple women of using his power and celebrity status to prey on young women and teenagers for sex. The allegations include accounts from two women who said they first met the star when they were 15 years old." Both women, who are now in their 30s, said hey had been groomed by Walliams and that the experience had deeply affected them.
The investigation detailed how Walliams abused his position as both a best-selling author and a TV personality to pursue women and teenage girls. One woman, named as Alex, said she had met Walliams at a fan event and had maintained phone and email contact with him for several months. At one point, Walliams started asking for photographs from her and he began "telling me how to pose", including nude. She was 17. They later began a sexual relationship. While Alex says the encounters she had with Walliams were consensual, she "felt like a prostitute, essentially" while in his company.
"I think I was groomed, 100%. We met when I was 15 and he was promising to help me and was a figure of authority and someone that I looked to for guidance and help. He used that power and abused that power the minute he felt he just about could and it was just about safe to."
"I want to vomit. I hate him. My body reacts when I think about it. It's like a trauma response," she says. "I never said no," she says, "but I felt unable to say anything or have any control in that situation once I was with him.
Another woman, Lilly Creightmore, says Walliams approached her when she was 16, sending her a card out of the blue and complimenting her on her appearance on a modelling show. She says he repeatedly pestered her for sex despite her saying no, and that on one occasion, "he put his head in my lap and made me stroke his head." She adds: "I didn't feel safe there and it wasn't a good situation, so I had to go stay somewhere else."
One woman, identified as Jade, said that she received Myspace DMs from Walliams when she was 15, and that, when they met in-person, he forcefully kissed her. He then tried to coax her into sex. The age of consent in the UK is 16. "I wasn't ready for sex. I didn't want to do that with him or with anyone. I was very uncomfortable with my own body as well. And I didn't - I didn't want to be touched in that way at all. I mean, I was only a 15-year-old." Walliams agreed to stop. She recalls him saying "that we should wait until I'm 16 and then said to keep in contact ... I remember him saying that. That comment will always stick out in my mind. That's a very strange thing to say."
ITV News have made their investigation available to watch on YouTube now.
I cannot tell you how much of an open secret this was. While this does not make the allegations in this report any less shocking, it's hard to overstate just how well-known Walliams's creepiness towards women and girls was. In the publishing world, women were frequently told not to go into a room alone with him. I heard many stories from people in TV regarding his leering and predatory treatment of the opposite sex. Only Russell Brand was talked about more frequently as the abuser everyone was aware of. When news of the injunction emerged, everyone knew Walliams was behind it. Literally everyone.
If you're not British, this guy's popularity must seem baffling, but make no mistake, for at least 20 years, he was a very big deal. Little Britain, the sketch show he co-created and starred in with Matt Lucas, was wildly popular and endlessly quoted. Walliams's children's books made him a publishing phenomenon. He has sold more than 26 million copies in the UK alone, worth £156 million, according to The Guardian. He was also a judge on Britain's Got Talent and received acclaim for dramatic performances. He's a BAFTA winner.
But he was also controversial. Little Britain is a staggeringly racist and classist show. Walliams had a history of blackface. At live shows, he pulled down the underwear of a 16-year-old boy on stage and kissed him on the lips. His kids' books were regularly condemned for their classism, racism, and fat-shaming. And in 2020, one woman tweeted, ""Why did I ever think it was 'normal' for a 44yr male to invite four girls aged 16/17 into his dressing room without any adults - just his PA, who would bring refreshments once in a while. And the fact that everyone at that TV production company would see it and say NOTHING."
But it took until this year for things to change. In publishing, where interns and staff were warned about his behaviour and frequently harassed by Walliams, he was protected because of his sales. He was finally dropped in December of last year after a change of management at HarperCollins, and the publisher announced this September that they were stopping publication of his lucrative back-catalogue.
He was let go from Britain's Got Talent after it emerged that he'd made misogynistic and sexually explicit comments about a contestant. He was throwing literal Nazi salutes on an episode of the BBC show Would I Lie to You? in 2025, which was never aired. His downfall has been a long time coming.
Walliams denies all allegations of wrongdoing.
