David Walliams molested young men by pulling down their underwear in a 'humiliating' game of Hide The Sausage on a Little Britain stage show in 2007.
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Walliams → molest → 2007
The footage from a BBC documentary features the comedian, playing predatory gay former children's entertainer 'Des Kaye', groping three males said to be aged between 16 and 18.
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comedian → feature → 16
The video features him inviting the audience members on stage, where he appears to kiss their bare buttocks.
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he → feature → buttocks
Walliams is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and preying on multiple teenagers.
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Walliams → accuse → teenagers
He had sought an injunction to prevent publication of the claims, arguing he would take his own life if the allegations became public.
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allegations → seek → life
He was finally named today.
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He → name → ?
Walliams denies any wrongdoing and threatened to kill himself if his identity were revealed.
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identity → deny → himself
A video, which can still be seen on YouTube, begins with Walliams asking a volunteer to come up on stage before getting them to confirm their age.
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them → see → age
When one answers 16, the controversial comedian says, 'Bingo', before adding: 'You're a big boy for 16 aren't you – that's what I'll tell the judge.'
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I → answer → judge
A resurfaced video shows David Walliams playing a game of 'Hide The Sausage' with young male audience members
Walliams plays the role of 'Des Kaye', described as a predatory former kids' TV entertainer, who humiliates young men when they come on stage by pulling their pants down
He then kisses the boy on the lips before playing his game of 'Hide The Sausage', which involves him lunging for their trousers, dry humping them and leaving them with exposed buttocks and grappling to keep their genitals covered.
The footage was blasted by a number of critics who said it portrayed a stereotype of gay men as predatory.
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it → resurface → men
In other footage, Walliams can be seen pulling down the pants of actor Jeremy Edwards during a Little Britain Comic Relief Gala at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006.
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Walliams → see → 2006
Speaking about the stage performance of the comedy show earlier this year, Walliams insisted: 'It always brought the house down… not a single person ever complained.'
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person → speak → house
In February, The Daily Mail revealed that a convicted child sex offender worked as a stage manager on the production.
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offender → reveal → production
Gareth Weeks was already a convicted child sex offender during the tour – although there is no suggestion that Walliams and the rest of the production knew about his past at that time.
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Walliams → convict → time
According to a 2020 report from the BBC – which did not mention his role on Little Britain specifically – Weeks had been jailed for sexual offences in 1993, long before he took up his role on Little Britain Live.
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he → accord → Live
Despite this, he continued to work in theatres across Britain, where the court later heard he boasted to friends about his links to well-known figures in entertainment.
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he → continue → entertainment
Years later, in 2020, Weeks was sentenced to 15 years in prison for abusing a 14-year-old boy he had groomed online.
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he → sentence → boy
Walliams' character pulled down actor Jeremy Edwards' jeans and his underwear to near disastrous effect during a Little Britain Comic Relief Gala at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006
Walliams holds the actor on stage by his arm during the game of Hide The Sausage
Exeter Crown Court heard he sexually assaulted the teenager during their second meeting, went on to assault him again, and secretly filmed the abuse before sharing the footage with another paedophile.
Weeks' involvement in Little Britain Live is documented in Inside Little Britain, which records him using the tour as an opportunity to pursue men.
In one disturbing passage, he is described as showing Lucas a photograph on his phone of a young man lying naked beside him in bed, saying he had also taken other images.
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he → pull → images
Lucas told Weeks that it would be best if he kept such photos to himself.
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he → tell → himself
Elsewhere, the book recounts an exchange in which Walliams asks Weeks whether he had found any 'cute boys', to which Weeks replied: 'No, none.
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Weeks → recount → none
But I'll soon sort that out.
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I → sort → that
I'll find some.'
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I → find → some
The text, published in 2007, also captured Walliams reflecting on the segment in his own words.
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Walliams → publish → words
Asked what he most looked forward to about the show, he replied: 'The bit I'm most looking forward to is Des Kaye.
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I → ask → show
One witness who watched the routine unfold with a boy she estimated to be no more than 17 told the Daily Mail it felt 'like watching somebody being abused in front of you'.
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somebody → watch → you
Walliams is accused of 'abusing his status' on Little Britain and Britain's Got Talent (BGT) and engaging in 'inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities' with 'a large number' of young women and girls.
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Walliams → accuse → women
He denies any wrongdoing and told the High Court he would kill himself if his identity were revealed.
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identity → deny → himself
It came 24 hours after his friend Russell Brand was jailed for ten-and-a-half years for rape.
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friend → come → rape
This afternoon, Downing Street said allegations of sexual misconduct made by multiple women were 'deeply troubling' and the Government is 'concerned' about the use of injunctions.
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Government → say → injunctions
Labour has suspended him as a party member, it later emerged.
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it → suspend → member
One accuser, named as Jade by ITV News and The Guardian, alleges she was sexually assaulted by Walliams when she was 15 after he contacted her online.
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he → name → her
Jade claims they met in Soho before he drove her to his home in his Aston Martin.
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he → claim → Martin
She alleges Walliams sexually assaulted her at Supernova Heights, the mansion once owned by Oasis star Noel Gallagher.
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Walliams → allege → Gallagher
'He asked me to come over and gave me a hug.
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He → ask → hug
That's when he kissed me,' Jade alleged of Walliams, who was 36 at the time.
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who → kiss → time
'He lifted my top up and sucked on my breast and then tried to put my hand down his trousers.
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He → lift → trousers
That's when I pulled away and said, 'No'.
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I → pull → ?
He had an erection at the time,' she said.
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she → have → time
I didn't want to do that, with him or with anyone.
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I → want → anyone
I didn't want to be touched in that way at all.
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I → want → way
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