Britain’s Got Talent bosses ‘looked into David Walliams claims 6 years ago’

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Walliams served as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent for a decade.

Britain’s Got Talent bosses reportedly investigated allegations against David Walliams six years ago, but did not find a ‘smoking gun’ to axe him from the show.

The former ITV show judge, 55, has been accused of grooming teenage girls as young as 15 and abusing his position to pursue women, in a new bombshell investigation from the Guardian and ITV News.

The allegations, which Walliams denies, come after he unsuccessfully attempted to block publication of the claims by obtaining an injunction.

It has now been reported that Britain’s Got Talent looked into Walliams’s behaviour in 2020, following claims on social media and from journalists that he had acted inappropriately at the Fountain Studios in Wembley.

BGT sources have told the Daily Mail that they were unable to verify whether the guests in Walliams’s dressing room were people he had met on social media.

Fan of the show Abby Tomlinson has claimed that she and a 13-year-old girl were left alone with Walliams in his BGT dressing room with the door closed, which his lawyers have denied.

They have insisted that the door to his dressing room was always left open and that young women were placed on the list by his personal assistant, according to the report in the Mail.

There were reportedly no formal complaints about Walliams made to Fremantle, the production company that makes BGT.

A show source told the publication of the investigation: ‘Because there were no formal complaints, it was on a more informal basis with no external company brought in to look at it.

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