A senior aide to Andy Burnham has alleged that David Walliams invited her to his dressing room on the set of Britain's Got Talent when she was 17 years old.
Abby Tomlinson, the Prime Minister's deputy director of digital communications, said she received a message on Twitter out of the blue in 2015 inviting her to watch the show being filmed, according to a joint investigation by ITV News and the Guardian.
Allegations of being left alone with Walliams
Ms Tomlinson, who was a BGT fan, said she took a 13-year-old girl along with her. When they arrived, they were shown backstage to Walliams' dressing room, where two other girls, aged 16 and 17, were waiting, The Guardian reports.
She claims that she and the 13-year-old girl were left alone with Walliams in his dressing room with the door closed and without another adult present. Walliams was 43 at the time.
According to ITV, Walliams' lawyers previously denied they were on their own and said his "door remained open at all times."
Walliams denies wrongdoing
Ms Tomlinson told The Guardian: "It was absolutely the case, the door was shut and we were alone with him." She added: "He's the sort of person who had obviously a lot of access to young women, teenage girls."
David Walliams has been accused of sexual misconduct and abusing his power to groom teenagers as young as 15. He has denied the allegations against him.
In a letter understood to have been sent several months ago by Walliams to reporters working on the ITV News and Guardian investigations, the TV personality wrote: "Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with.
"I realise I did not always take people's feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.
"And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did."
He added: "I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me."
Career fallout from allegations
Walliams had yet to respond following the publication of his name on Tuesday. After the allegations emerged, he was dropped by his literary agency, Independent Talent Group, and the BBC started to remove his shows, including Little Britain, from iPlayer.
Walliams also had his Labour Party membership suspended, and Downing Street described the allegations as "deeply troubling."
