Inside Russell Brand and David Walliams’ decades-long friendship
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
- New
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 1:24am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3547 stories, and number 420 of 1489 in News.Part of a bigger story
David Walliams: 3 developments since Mon 9 Nov.Related
David Walliams to be removed from Fing! after allegations (shares David Walliams and Russell Brand); Inside Russell Brand and Katy Perry’s marriage, from a ‘tornado’ courtship to divorce via text (shares David Walliams and Russell Brand)Why it’s moving
- ScoopDaily Mail had it 26 hr before anyone else.
1Walliams and Brand were ‘really close friends’ who appeared on TV and stage numerous times together
In The Independent’s words.2
The bigger story: David Walliams
3 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 2 more since this one.
Inside Russell Brand and David Walliams’ decades-long friendship
You’re here3 newsrooms
- UK’s Jonathan Ross Says He Was ‘Unaware’ of David Walliams Alleged Abuse as 2004 Joke About 15-Year-Old Resurfaces
3 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, comedy, joke
- David Walliams 'joked about' by staff at publisher: 'Tip of the iceberg'
2 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, joked
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 4
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 2
First with it: Daily Mail, 1 day before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 1 |
| Today | 3 |
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 1.9 days
- To three newsrooms
- 1.9 days
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 8:36pm AEDT | Daily Mail | 1 |
| 10:17pm AEDT | Daily Express | 2 |
| 7:08pm AEDT | The Independent | 3 |
Bigger than 94% of News stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 1.9 days; a typical News story that gets there takes 7.6 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 1:24am AEDT (3 most likely), and 3 to 4 by Thu, 12 Nov, 7:24pm AEDT. 3 now.



