Piers Morgan has launched a scathing attack on David Walliams after it was revealed the former Britain's Got Talent judge has been accused of sexual misconduct. A joint three-year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian has alleged Walliams preyed on teenage girls as young as 15. Morgan, who has made his feelings about Walliams clear several times over the years, has now shared his thoughts on the allegations, branding Walliams a "nasty piece of work".
Morgan's four-word verdict
"Shocking, but unsurprising. Walliams is a nasty piece of work," he wrote on X.
On Tuesday (November 10), Walliams was named as the high-profile celebrity who lost his bid for an injunction to prevent the publication of allegations against him. Multiple women have accused the children's author of sexually pursuing them when they were teenagers, according to the investigation.
Walliams denies allegations
Walliams has denied the allegations, insisting that while he behaved "thoughtlessly", he never broke the law. In a statement to the Guardian and ITV News, the comedian said: "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…I am not a sexual predator…I have not broken the law… I am devastated that some of the women I met ten to twenty years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me."
History of criticism
In 2019, Morgan accused Walliams of liking the "nastiest tweets" about him on X. Calling him out on social media, Morgan slammed the comedian as "two-faced", "poisonous", and "cowardly". The following year, Morgan claimed that Walliams made his "skin crawl".
Also in 2020, Morgan ruled out a return to Britain's Got Talent, admitting he could never work with Walliams. "I think he is a duplicitous, treacherous, piece of work. I will come back to BGT if the money is right and if they guarantee Walliams gets fired. I might even make it a contractual clause that I get to be the one who tells him he is fired," he told the Mirror. In 2022, Morgan claimed Walliams was "one of the nastiest frauds in TV".
Investigation details
ITV News reported that one woman alleged Walliams began contacting her when she was 15 after meeting her at a Little Britain fan event, and they began a sexual relationship when she was 17. Walliams is also accused of inappropriate conduct at Britain's Got Talent and at his former publisher, HarperCollins. The investigation alleged that he had a sexual relationship with at least one junior employee at HarperCollins, and pursued another.
