Comedian Lucy Beaumont fears TV blacklist after blowing whistle on heinous David Walliams allegations

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A comedian who shared concerns about David Walliams' inappropriate behavior with the British press fears she will never work in the television industry again after the…

A comedian who shared concerns about David Walliams’ inappropriate behavior with the British press fears she will never work in the television industry again after the best-selling children’s book author was accused of using his celebrity status to groom women for sex.

Lucy Beaumont, 43, told Sky News on Tuesday she was approached three years ago by a “young person” working their first job in the industry, who had voiced concerns about the “Little Britain” star’s behind-the-scenes behavior.

“They took me aside and said ‘I need to tell somebody something’ and confided in me some of his conduct that they were really worried about,” Beaumont said of the concerning interaction.

“The thing that struck me about it and that I was very concerned about was that he said they were very working-class girls, and some of them had never been to London before,” she said.

“They’d never been around TV. He felt they were vulnerable. This is the point of me talking about this because unless you do talk about it frankly, I don’t think anything will change.

“At the time, he didn’t think there was a process — a way to let people know within the TV company what was happening and how he felt, and I was really worried.”

Beaumont then said she was one of the people who shared the allegations with the Guardian newspaper – which identified the former “Britain’s Got Talent” judge on Tuesday after his lawyers failed to secure an injunction to prevent his unmasking.

“I was really worried and I was one of the whistleblowers. I was one of the people to let the Guardian know. People are saying – ‘Why tell journalists?’ There’s no HR department in TV. There’s no proper duty of care.

“There’s no social services that you deal with, and it’s partly because the industry is very well managed. There hasn’t been a process that you can deal with.”

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