The Celebrity Abusers Thread

[wordsfromlee]

50 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

We never let my daughter read his shit books and I’m glad he’s been revealed for the creep he is. 

If it's any consolidation, he didn't write any of the books himself. They were all ghostwritten.

[westlondonmist]

BBC finally taken his stuff down, surprised they didn't do it prior given all the rumours.

[WyattSheepMask]

32 minutes ago, westlondonmist said:

BBC finally taken his stuff down, surprised they didn't do it prior given all the rumours.

If they removed it all before he was named, that would open them up for some sort of legal action I would imagine 

[Thunderplex]

43 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said:

If it's any consolidation, he didn't write any of the books himself. They were all ghostwritten.

By Jimmy Saville.

[Mr_Danger]

6 hours ago, neil said:

Other than Jonathan Ross I couldn't help but be watching GBBO the other day and wonder how nervous Noel might be these days.

Is Matt Lucas still on it too?

The thing about Brand and Walliams is that they carved these personas of being deviants of some degree for themselves, obviously as an act of self preservation but they were bound to have loads of jokes about them being wrongun’s so it’s hardly confirmation when you look back and see people like Ross telling jokes about them, or Russell Brand joking about rape on RHLSTP. I’ve met loads of people in my life that it wouldn’t surprise me if they turned out to be sex criminals. Doesn’t mean they are but when it’s turned out that one or two have been it doesn’t mean I was in on it or I always knew. 

[TheBurningRed]

26 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Is Matt Lucas still on it too

Allison Hammond replaced him. 

[IANdrewDiceClay]

There's a rapist from Baby Reindeer based on a some British comedy chap that apparently "everyone knows who it is". So I imagine there is more to come down the line, whoever he is.

[LaGoosh]

9 hours ago, Joe Blog said:

It was on here. Someone said their brother/sister worked in publishing and it was a well known secret about that chapter but no one would release it. M

That was me. Not my brother/sister but I happen to know lots of people in publishing and they all know the story and the details have never changed.

[Scratch]

On 11/9/2026 at 5:28 PM, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

I know he was influential and had a lot of 'power' but surely someone somewhere would have done and said something?

They did, hence it was an open secret.

But which of the many who are in on the open secret should be the one to go to the police? And with what?

For all the reasons already stated, which individual should feel able and responsible to put everything they have on the line because of a rumour? How would they know the actual impact of those affected by someone with a small part of the puzzle, and with no evidence, bringing something so traumatic to the fore?

I’ve read this morning that Lucy Beaumont has identified herself as being a whistleblower on Walliams. It reads as though she was in on the open secret, offered support to a victim and they chose a route of escalation that they both felt comfortable with. That’s both brave and considerate of the victim for what they would likely have to endure thereafter.

[RedTwoster]

11 hours ago, wordsfromlee said:

If it's any consolidation, he didn't write any of the books himself. They were all ghostwritten.

I don’t think that’s correct - I know there were suggestions about this on social media, but if there was any substance to them, the press would almost certainly have outed him for using a ghostwriter by now.

Normally I’d feel hesitant about doing something that could be seen as defending Walliams, but I think his books are utter dogshit, so I actually see this as defending ghostwriters. 

Edited 20 hours ago by RedTwoster

[LaGoosh]

I know someone from HarperCollins who told me his books definitely aren't ghostwritten, for whatever it's worth. If they were ghostwritten they'd have been better! They are barrel scraping cheap joke absolute shite just like everything Walliams has done in his career.

[Mr_Danger]

1 hour ago, RedTwoster said:

I don’t think that’s correct - I know there were suggestions about this on social media, but if there was any substance to them, the press would almost certainly have outed him for using a ghostwriter by now.

Normally I’d feel hesitant about doing something that could be seen aa defending Walliams, but I think his books are utter dogshit, so I actually see this as defending ghostwriters. 

I think what you mean to say is that Arthur Matthews wrote them all.

[RedTwoster]

2 hours ago, Scratch said:

I’ve read this morning that Lucy Beaumont has identified herself as being a whistleblower on Walliams. It reads as though she was in on the open secret, offered support to a victim and they chose a route of escalation that they both felt comfortable with. That’s both brave and considerate of the victim for what they would likely have to endure thereafter.

It's worth watching her interview with Cathy Newman on Sky News - it's long, but it exposes a lot more than just Walliams. In short, she didn't know Walliams and had never worked with him, but a runner confided in her and said he was really worried because, on a separate show, he'd been asked to take young girls to Walliams' dressing room. She actually tracked down the girls in question and offered support. One of the more alarming parts was the NDA these girls were forced to sign, which even forbade them from speaking to a therapist: 

Huge credit to Lucy Beaumont for this but also to the runner who confided in her in the first place. They would have had a lot to lose in terms of their aspirations, probably didn't know exactly how to handle this and they couldn't have been certain that Lucy Beaumont would even take them seriously/provide the incredible level of support that she did. 

[Ironic Indie Lad]

I have to say, my brother and I were very much trailblazers in thinking Walliams is a completely unfunny knob. 

We had this on VHS in 1997 and Walliams had a bit part on it. Even as kids we thought he ruined the scenes he was in. Obviously I am not trying to say I knew he was a sex pest and perhaps even a paedo. He's always given me the vibe of a show off from school / a workplace who is not funny to anyone with any taste. I suppose thats clearly true as Little Britain and his books are utter slop. 

 

[Scratch]

Walliams was a cast member on GamesWorld when I was on it in 1994, aged 14. He acted really strange the whole day, I remember feeling really uncomfortable around him. It wasn’t until, I think, Rock Profile was doing the rounds on UK Play that I recognised him as being that bloke off of GamesWorld.