UK comedian David Walliams accused of grooming and sexual harassment
- Newsrooms
- 18
- Last 3 hours
- 2 reports
- Momentum
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0 in the 3 before
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Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 19 to 20 newsrooms by 5:51am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time.
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
France 24 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 bigger story: David Walliams
9 developments since Tue 10 Nov. 5 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
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UK comedian David Walliams accused of grooming and sexual harassment
You’re here19 newsrooms. Linked by David Walliams, accuse, sexual, groom, celebrity, injunction
- David Walliams dropped from his own film after sexual misconduct allegations
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- 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
18 newsroomsRising- Reports
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- Newsrooms and sources
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- Last 3 hours
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Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (2 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: Evening Standard, 24 min before anyone else.
Reported by 18 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
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 4 |
| Today | 33 |
Where the coverage is from
Sources and credits
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Photo: Sriya Sarkar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence)
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France 24: UK comedian David Walliams accused of grooming and sexual harassment
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ABC News: British comedian and children's author David Walliams accused of sexual misconduct
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Background: “David Walliams”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)


