'He groomed me': David Walliams accused of preying on teenage girls after losing anonymity fight
- Newsrooms
- 17
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Slowing
6 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 3532 stories, and number 26 of 1481 in News.
1File photo: David Walliams
British children's author and comedian David Walliams is facing allegations of using his fame to groom girls and young women for sex
Evening Standard didn’t include a summary, so this is ABC News’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: David Walliams
David Edward Williams, known professionally as David Walliams, is an English actor, comedian, writer and television personality. He rose to prominence for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011). From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on the television talent competition Britain's Got Talent.4
The story so far
17 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 35
- Newsrooms and sources
- 17
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 6 in the three before).
First with it: Evening Standard, 24 min before anyone else.
Reported by 17 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone Australia (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from



