Matt Lucas conspicuously stops daily tweet amid David Walliams allegations
- Newsrooms
- 13
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
2 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 4118 stories, and number 15 of 519 in Film & TV.Part of a bigger story
David Walliams: 22 developments since Tue 10 Nov.Related
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In The Independent’s words.2
The bigger story: David Walliams
22 developments since Tue 10 Nov. 15 more since this one.
- Morning Mail: David Walliams accused of preying on young women; Greens’ fury at Labor; and a statue mocks Trump
5 newsrooms. Linked by Morning Mail, accuse, women
- Grooming gangs investigator speaks out over 'appalling' David Walliams sex abuse claims
5 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, celebrity, accuse, prey, young, groom
- David Walliams cut from his upcoming Australian film as streaming services and distributors drop project entirely amid sexual misconduct claims
21 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, sexual, speak, groom, celebrity
- Lucy Beaumont fears she'll 'never work in TV again' after revealing herself as David Walliams whistleblower and says she came forward after filing police report about another predatory man in the industry
5 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, sexual, assault, investigation, allege, joke
- David Walliams accused of preying on teenage girls
1 newsroom. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, prey, teenage, girl
Matt Lucas conspicuously stops daily tweet amid David Walliams allegations
13 newsrooms
The story so far
13 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 20
- Newsrooms and sources
- 13
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).
First with it: The Independent, 2 hr 35 min before anyone else.
Reported by 13 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Brisbane Times, WAtoday, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Reports |
|---|---|
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 0 |
| Wed | 0 |
| Thu | 17 |
| Today | 3 |


