EXCLUSIVE: David Walliams has been scrubbed from the online archives of Channel 4 after the Little Britain star was accused of preying on teenage girls. He denies wrongdoing.
Channel 4 has deleted shows featuring Walliams from its streaming service, including the 2021 special Chitty Flies Again with David Walliams, in which he attempted to recreate the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car. Two episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown starring Walliams are also not available.
A Channel 4 spokesperson told Deadline: “Following the serious allegations against David Walliams, we have decided to remove programmes in which he is featured from our platforms. We will keep the matter under review.”
Channel 4 follows the BBC and Sky in scrubbing Walliams. The BBC took down Little Britain from iPlayer, as well as adaptations of children’s books, such as Gangsta Granny. An episode of genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? featuring Walliams was also taken down. Sky said it had “removed content which features him from our platforms.”
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ITV News and The Guardian published their investigation into Walliams on Tuesday, detailing how he allegedly used his position on shows like Little Britain and Britain’s Got Talent to meet teenagers and pursue sexual contact with them. Walliams strongly refuted the allegations.
“I am not a sexual predator… I have not broken the law,” Walliams told ITV News. “I am devastated that some of the women I met ten to twenty years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
He continued: “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.”