Jonathan Ross’ Walliams Joke Resurfaces Amid Assault Allegations
Footage was recently released showing Jonathan Ross making 2004 jokes about 15-year-olds “going home with David Walliams” – as the former Little Britain star faces allegations of sexual assault.
Walliams, who is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and preying on multiple teenagers, was seen throwing his head back in laughter at the remark on national tele.
The highly acclaimed children’s writer filed for an injunction to have the claims against him withheld from the public media, arguing he would take his own life if the allegations became public. Today, after all these years, his name was finally revealed. Mr Ross joked at the British Comedy Awards in 2004, when Little Britain – that Walliams created and starred in alongside Matt Lucas – was awarded Best TV Comedy.
Ross told the crowd: “The comedy award is 15 years old – 15 years old!” Ross continued with, “And like most 15-year-olds, it’s drunk, it’s unpredictable, and it’s probably going home with David Walliams.”
The scene from the video also showed that Walliams, who was wearing a formal black jacket and bow tie, seemed quite cheerful. Lawyers representing Mr Ross have claimed that he had no hand in drafting the joke and just acted it out on stage through the humour.
Walliams Faces Multiple Misconduct Allegations as Teen Accuser Speaks Out
Walliams faces accusations of ‘abusing his status’ both on Little Britain and Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) by indulging in ‘inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities’ with ‘a large number’ of young women and girls. He is defending himself by denying all allegations and saying that he would die by suicide if his identity were disclosed in the High Court. It happened 24 hours after his friend Russell Brand was sentenced to prison for ten and a half years for rape.
This afternoon, Downing Street responded that the sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women were ‘deeply troubling’, and the government shares the ‘concern’ about the use of injunctions. Later, it became known that Labour has suspended him from the party.
One of the accusers, identified as Jade by ITV News and The Guardian, claims that Walliams sexually assaulted her when she was only 15 after he had made contact with her via the internet. She says they had a meeting in Soho before he drove her to his home in his Aston Martin. Jade believes that Walliams committed the sexual assault on her inside Supernova Heights, a property which was formerly owned by Noel Gallagher of the rock band Oasis.
“He invited me over and gave me a hug. That is when he kissed me,” Jade recalled, of Walliams, who was 36 then.
“He lifted my shirt and sucked on my breast and then tried to put my hand down his trousers. That’s when I moved away and said, “No. “He had an erection at the time,” she added.
“I simply wasn’t up for sex. The thought of doing it with him or with anyone was really unappealing. I also did not want to be touched in such a way. After all, I was just 15. So, it’s a sexual assault. It’s grooming. Totally, it is completely wrong in every way,” she explained.
David Walliams Faces Further Allegations as Second Woman Claims She Was Groomed at 15
She claimed she had already told him how she had been sexually abused as a child by someone other than him, and he had only to reply, ‘Sorry to hear that.’
A woman referred to only as ‘Alex’ claims that Walliams began contacting her while she was at the age of 15 and preparing for her mock GCSEs after she had met him at a Little Britain fan event where he had been dressed in his character Lou outfit, frizzy wig and leather jacket.
The moment they met was recorded on camera. They started having a sexual relationship around two years later, when she was 17. When she was asked how she feels about him now, she answered, ‘I want to vomit. I hate him. My body reacts when I think about it. It’s like a trauma response. I think I was groomed. One hundred per cent.’
One whistleblower at David Walliams’s former publisher, HarperCollins, which made millions from his children’s books, revealed: ‘The agreement was, if you went to his home, you were required to accompany someone else. You could not go alone.’
Ex-BGT judge David Walliams, aged 55, took to the High Court to stop the press and media from discussing the accusations, triggering wild guesses about his identity on the internet.
Last week, though, a judge ruled against him, and it was learned that Walliams did not make an appeal in the time allowed, that being before 4.30pm Monday. At half-past noon on Tuesday, ITV News and The Guardian identified him. According to the BBC, a spokesman said they are in the act of removing a few shows, including Little Britain, as part of a broader review they are to perform of ‘all material featuring and written by David Walliams on our platforms’. Walliams has also lost his representation with the agency ITG.
David Walliams Denies Sexual Misconduct Allegations and Grooming Claims
Some women have accused Walliams of sexual misconduct and grooming, some of which was when they were teenagers. Walliams today has strongly denied the allegations of him sexually abusing his position as a celebrity to have relationships with women, but at the same time he confessed that he had sometimes ‘behaved thoughtlessly’.
In an open letter to the press, the actor said, ‘In retrospect, I can see that sometimes I was negligent with my behaviour towards women with whom I had casual sexual relations. I see now that I did not always consider other people’s feelings properly. This is a thing I regret.’
‘One party being famous always creates a power imbalance to some extent; however, the difference is abusing this power, which is something I never did.’
‘I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law. I am really sad that after ten to 20 years some ladies that I have met are now expressing their hurt or anger towards me.’
This was a denial via a letter sent to the media several months ago by Walliams, as it is reported. He has not reacted today. It has been 11 months since the publisher HarperCollins decided to part ways with millionaire Walliams after allegations that he had harassed female junior employees. Jade claimed she was 15 when Walliams reached out to her on MySpace in 2007, during the peak of his Little Britain fame.
David Walliams Accusers Detail Alleged Online Contact and Sexual Misconduct
She said that she commented on his photo, and he immediately sent her a private message.
‘You are getting this level of attention from a celebrity. That’s a completely different level of attention,’ she said.
‘And then you think, Maybe I’m a little special, in a way.’ She also alleged that they first met in Soho in August 2007. ‘At that time, I was extremely shy,’ Jade stated.
‘And I hardly said anything, so it was mostly him asking questions. We talked a little about school, but it wasn’t long before he asked me if I’d ever had sex. I said I hadn’t. I really don’t like talking about those things.’
Jade also claimed that Walliams took her into an ‘alleyway’ when they were parting.
‘He sort of cornered us where no one could see us, and then that was when he kissed me,’ she explained.
‘He was using his tongue. I don’t want to use the word aggressive, but he was quite… excited.’ She mentioned that afterwards he invited her to his place, where she was sexually assaulted.
‘Probably I was still quite innocent about what he was expecting to happen. I didn’t think he would want sex, especially that quickly,’ she stated.
Alex, who came across Walliams at the Little Britain event when she was 15, said he promised to help her with work and also read her scripts. She sent him two pictures of herself.
“By the way, those pictures are really beautiful,” one of his emails reportedly said. ‘Will you send me some more photos? You are beautiful,’ he allegedly said to her.
According to ITV, in another email, she said she was going to have a bath. ‘You in the bath is a nice thought,’ he said. ‘Well… you in the bath with me is an even nicer thought… hehe,’ she responded. Walliams wrote back, ‘I’d like that. Call me.’
‘In the beginning, I just sent pictures of my face, then it was photos of my underwear,’ according to Alex.
David Walliams Faces Fresh Allegations From Former BGT Employee and Model
One of the former junior workers at BGT, named Mark, otherwise, revealed that he walked into Walliams’ dressing room and found two ‘very young’ people in the room while the TV judge was only in a towel.
Mark got £300 from Walliams along with a signed card at the end of the series. Mark alleged that a senior member of the production staff referred to the payment as ‘hush money’.
Walliams argues that he was not ‘buying’ Mark’s silence and there were no ‘matters’ requiring ‘covering up’.
The actor claims that he gave tips to the crew every year, and the figure he gave to Mark did not exceed the usual one. He labels the workers’ statements as a ‘smear’.
Lilly Creightmore, a model, stated that she was 18 when Walliams got in touch with her. He had seen her on the TV show, Model Behaviour, when she was 16.
He said he admired her, and she claims he got her address via a production company.
She also kept the card that Walliams sent her. She also has a photograph of her with Walliams at an event attended by various A-listers.
His note read, ‘When I saw you at the Little Britain recording, I was enraptured. Then when I saw you in Agent Provocateur, I so wanted to speak to you, but amongst all the frilly knickers, I couldn’t find the words. I’d love to take you out sometime. I know we’ve never spoken, but you seem lovely. David Walliams.’
At one time, she was without a home – and claims that Walliams offered her a room as a result.
Upon arrival, she recalls that Walliams said that she and he would be sharing the bed.
‘He crossed the line physically, for sure, in moments, when I was young, trying to coerce me into sleeping with him,’ Lilly said.
