00:00His job, this young person, was to take young girls. He definitely knew they were over 16, and he had
00:12to take them to Walliam's dressing room.
00:16He said they were very working-class girls, and some of them had never been to London before.
00:22They'd never been around TV. He felt they were vulnerable.
00:25That's comedian Lucy Beaumont opening up to Sky News about an incident that was reported to her three years ago.
00:32A young crew member confided in her about David Walliams' alleged sexual misconduct, saying his job on a previous set
00:38was to escort young, vulnerable women to Walliams' dressing room.
00:42In the UK, the age of consent is 16.
00:45Beaumont added that she never worked with Walliams herself and never witnessed this behavior personally.
00:50However, she revealed that she was one of the whistleblowers, including more than 30 sources who spoke to The Guardian.
00:57Beaumont now fears she'll be blacklisted in the industry for speaking out on the allegations.
01:02And in yet another career blow, Walliams has been dropped from the family-friendly film Thing.
01:07The 55-year-old comedy star actually co-wrote the movie, which is based on his 2019 children's book of
01:13the same name.
01:14Walliams is the author of dozens of kids' books and has sold over 50 million copies worldwide.
01:20Thing's movie producer said in a statement to Variety,
01:35Also starring Tahiko Watiti, Mia Wasikowski, and Williams' Little Britain co-star Matt Lucas,
01:41Thing is set to be released in the U.S. in January, but who knows if that'll actually happen.
01:45In the U.K., the distributor Sky has since removed it from its slate altogether.
01:50This all comes one day after news broke that Walliams was unmasked as an alleged sexual predator in a bombshell
01:56investigation.
02:09The mystery U.K. celebrity accused of sexual misconduct has been named as Little Britain star David Walliams.
02:16That story and more in today's Page Six Headlines.
02:19Former Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams' identity was revealed in a damning expose from The Guardian and ITV News.
02:27After Walliams' legal bid to remain anonymous failed, with his lawyers claiming he would attempt suicide if outed.
02:33In the new doc David Walliams' power and silence, multiple women accused the comedian of using his status to groom
02:40them for sex when they were teenagers.
02:42We met when I was 15.
02:44He was a figure of authority to me and someone that I looked to for guidance and help.
02:49And he used that power and abused that power the minute he felt he just about could and it was
02:56just about safe to.
02:58Walliams denied any wrongdoing in a statement writing,
03:01Looking back, I realized that at times I behaved thoughtlessly toward other people I had casual sexual relationships with.
