The teenage girls David Walliams preyed on in public: As police urge women to come forward, how grooming comic's behaviour was so well known Jonathan Ross joked about it in a room full of stars

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The children's author and entertainer used his fame to groom schoolgirls and pursue young women, it was claimed.

By SAM GREENHILL, THE CHIEF REPORTER and CHRIS POLLARD, NEWS REPORTER and REBECCA CAMBER, CRIME AND SECURITY EDITOR

Published: 00:49 GMT, 11 November 2026 | Updated: 02:35 GMT, 11 November 2026

Scotland Yard last night urged women to come forward after David Walliams was unmasked as the celebrity trying to hush up claims he preyed on teenagers.

The children's author and entertainer used his fame to groom schoolgirls and pursue young women, it was claimed.

Walliams, 55, allegedly sexually assaulted one 15-year-old, targeted another who was doing her GCSE mocks, and sexually harassed a string of other young women, according to a media investigation. Walliams denies all the accusations.

He acknowledged behaving 'thoughtlessly' at times but declared: 'I am not a sexual predator.'

However, controversy has never been far away and after the allegations emerged yesterday, footage from the 2004 Comedy Awards resurfaced. It shows Walliams laughing as compere Jonathan Ross tells the room full of celebrities and TV executives: 'The comedy awards is 15 years old – and like most 15-year-olds, it's drunk, it's unpredictable and it's probably going home with David Walliams.'

Walliams threatened to kill himself if the women's claims were made public, the High Court was told last month. The former Britain's Got Talent judge sought an injunction to silence the investigation, sparking a national guessing game about the identity of the 'well-known individual' at the centre of the case.

But his application was refused and yesterday The Guardian newspaper and ITV News published more than 17,000 words online and an hour-long documentary detailing the torrid claims.

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