David Walliams makes grim 8-word joke as he pulled down teen’s trousers on stage
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 5 newsrooms by 1:08am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 85% of the past week’s 3540 stories, and number 157 of 1486 in News.Part of a bigger story
David Walliams: 7 developments since Tue 10 Nov.
1Walliams made the quip during a stage routine in which he played a disgraced children's' TV presenter.
In Daily Express’s words.2
The bigger story: David Walliams
7 developments since Tue 10 Nov. 4 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
David Walliams Accused of Grooming Teen Girls for Sex
You’re here5 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, celebrity, accuse, prey, young, groom
- David Walliams sexual misconduct allegations spark calls for better safeguarding
18 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, sexual, groom, celebrity, injunction
- David Walliams to be removed from Fing! after allegations
12 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, groom, allegations, women, injunction, predator
- Comedian and author David Walliams accused of preying on young women
1 newsroom. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, prey, young, women
- Walliams and Brand were leading UK comics. Now they are part of a reckoning over sexual misconduct
1 newsroom. Linked by Walliams, sexual, misconduct
The story so far
5 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 6
- Newsrooms and sources
- 5
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: The Mirror, 18 min before anyone else.
Reported by 5 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Mirror, Daily Express (all Reach).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 5
- Over
- 15.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 30 min
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 11:05pm AEDT | The Mirror | 1 |
| 11:23pm AEDT | Deadline | 2 |
| 11:35pm AEDT | Daily Mail | 3 |
| 1:20am AEDT | TheWrap | 4 |
| 3:01pm AEDT | ABC News (Australia) | 5 |



