Comedian Lucy Beaumont bravely revealed on Tuesday that she was a whistleblower on David Walliams' allegations.
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Walliams was unmasked as the celebrity who fought for a court order to suppress allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and preyed on multiple teenage girls while 'abusing his status' to exploit teens.
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He sought a High Court injunction to prevent publication of the claims, arguing he would take his own life if the allegations became public.
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Just hours after Walliams was finally exposed, Beaumont revealed that she has privately been 'doing everything she can' to support one of his alleged victims.
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While she is best known for her deadpan jokes on stage, Beaumont dedicates her time offstage to protecting victims of abuse.
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The Celebrity Traitors star, who is a patron of Hull Women's Aid, uses her platform to advocate for women and girls' safety.
She has also explained how her own experience as the victim of predatory behaviour as a teenager 'makes her massively want to help others'.
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Beaumont, who began her career as a teaching assistant, has also raised thousands of pounds for countless charities including The Children’s Hospital Charity, Cost-of-Living School Gigs and Mothershare.
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Comedian Lucy Beaumont bravely revealed on Tuesday that she was a whistleblower on David Walliams' allegations
Walliams was unmasked as the celebrity who fought for a court order to suppress allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and preyed on multiple teenage girls while 'abusing his status' to exploit teens
She was announced as the patron of Hull Women's Aid back in 2024, helping survivors of domestic abuse and raising awareness of this important issue.
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It's a real honour to be a patron of such an important life line to women and children,' she said.
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'Victims and survivors are most at risk when leaving or having just left an abusive partner and without the incredible first response and lasting care that women's aid provide, the most vulnerable families in our society would not be safe.
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Beaumont is a hugely talented stand-up, comedy actress and writer, best known for starring and co-writing Meet The Richardsons alongside her ex Jon Richardson.
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The pair, who share one daughter together, tied the knot in April 2015 and announced their separation in April 2024.
Meet The Richardsons saw Beaumont nominated for a BAFTA TV award in the female performance in a comedy programme category in 2023.
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The show first launched on the channel in 2020 with the couple writing it alongside Peter Kay's Car Share scribe Tim Reid.
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Beaumont has featured on a number of panel shows including Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster, The Last Leg and Have I Got News For You.
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In 2022 her comedy Hullraisers, which she co-wrote,
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was aired on Channel 4 while in that same year she released her first book Drinking Custard: Diary of a Confused Mum.
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Beaumont previously said her career was held back by predatory men on the comedy circuit as she explained how she had suffered 'quite a few incidences' early on.
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While she is best known for her deadpan jokes on stage, Beaumont dedicates her time offstage to protecting victims of abuse
And confirming the 'blacklist' of alleged offenders, she said there were up to 15 men carrying out the appalling behaviour.
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When being asked if anything had held her back, Beaumont said: 'Predatory male behaviour.
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'I've had quite a few incidences where if you're in any other workforce you would go to HR, but there isn't one.
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I think it's just everywhere and it's not talked about enough.
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It upsets me when I hear about young female comics having the same experiences.
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I thought for a while it was the same five or six people - and now it's not - I could name you 10 or 15 because of course people talk.'
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The writer and performer spoke in July 2023 about the issue on The Comedian's Comedian Podcast.
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She added: 'Comedy has the biggest gossips ever so everybody knows - or if you don't know the ones I know yet then you will do soon.
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It attracts such interesting, passionate, raw, edgy, wounded people - but it also attracts predatory men who are really messed up and sexually have been repressed for years.
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And they get a bit of fame and display these behaviours.
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It just gets covered up.
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Their agents know and the channels know and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
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'There's been times when I've just wanted to go on Twitter and just let people know everyone that we talk about, but not allowed to say.'
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This week, Beaumont revealed how she played a part in exposing Walliams.
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She was working on a show when a young person came to her and shared the information that they had worked on a show with Walliams and their job was to take 'young girls' to his dressing room.
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They believed that the girls were over 16.
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Beaumont said she gave information to The Guardian after being 'really worried' one of his alleged victims would 'take her own life'.
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The Celebrity Traitors star, who is a patron of Hull Women's Aid, uses her platform to advocate for women and girls' safety
Speaking on Sky News, she explained: 'I did as much as I could do privately and whenever I've heard a rumour about anyone, I've done everything I can.
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There's only so much you can do.
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Nothing seems to be illegal, but I was really worried, and I was one of the whistleblowers.
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I was one of the people to let the Guardian know.'
Beaumont also spoke about the nature of the TV industry, saying: 'There's no HR department in TV.
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There's no social services that you deal with, and it's partly because the industry is very well managed.
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These are very rare things to happen.
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