Overview
- Walliams was publicly named on Tuesday after he missed the Court of Appeal deadline to challenge a High Court decision that refused to uphold his bid for a permanent anonymity order.
- Multiple women told the Guardian and ITV that Walliams used his fame to initiate sexual relationships and to groom young women, and one complainant alleges she was assaulted when she was 15.
- Mr Justice Nicklin rejected the injunction request while recognising Walliams’s serious psychiatric vulnerability and the increased suicide risk that publication posed, saying the risk did not make an order necessary or inevitable.
- Walliams denies being a sexual predator and says he at times behaved thoughtlessly, and institutions have already cut ties with him, including HarperCollins ending its publishing relationship and Alton Towers closing the themed attraction.
- The media organisations say their probe interviewed more than 100 people, including over 30 with first‑hand accounts, and the court noted some alleged conduct could amount to criminal offences though no criminal charges have been reported so far.