David Walliams has denied all allegations levelled against him, following the publication of a joint investigation by The Guardian and the news broadcaster ITN.
On Tuesday afternoon, Walliams was the subject of allegations from numerous women claiming that he “groomed” them as a teenagers, with one in particular accusing him of “sexual assault”.
The former Britain’s Got Talent judge has denied all of the allegations against him, including all criminal activity.
David Walliams in 2013In a statement, the Little Britain comedian said: “Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with. I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.
“And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did…”
He added: “I am not a sexual predator… I have not broken the law… I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
In the joint reporting, one woman claimed that she first met Walliams at a Little Britain fan event in 2004, when she was aged 15. She said that they struck up a relationship that she said had turned sexual by the time she was 17.
Another accused Walliams of “sexual assaulting” her when she was a teenager, after they first made contact on the social media site MySpace in 2007, when she was 15 and he was in his mid-30s.
The investigation includes accounts of alleged “inappropriate conduct” and “sexual harassment” behind the scenes ofBritain’s Got Talent, where he served as a judge for 10 years, and at his former publisher, HarperCollins.
David Walliams arriving at Britain’s Got Talent auditions in 2013In December of last year, it was first reported that the publisher HarperCollins UK – with whom Walliams had previously collaborated on more than 20 children’s books –had “decided not to publish any new titles” by him.
“HarperCollins takes employee well-being extremely seriously and has processes in place for reporting and investigating concerns,”a spokesperson said at the time, while declining to comment any more specifically on “internal matters”.
Walliams’ agent responded at the time: “David has never been informed of any allegations raised against him by HarperCollins.
“He was not party to any investigation or given any opportunity to answer questions. David strongly denies that he has behaved inappropriately and is taking legal advice.”
More recently, in September 2026,HarperCollins confirmed it had dropped Walliams’ backlist, meaning it would be phasing out his past titles, while Alton Towers confirmed last week that an area of the park inspired by his stories had been closed permanently.
