Piers Morgan branded David Walliams "soooooo creepy" in a resurfaced tweet from 2022, four years before the former Britain's Got Talent judge faced allegations of sexual misconduct involving teenage girls as young as 15.
Walliams was named on Tuesday as the famous man who lost his bid for an injunction to prevent the publication of allegations against him. Multiple women have accused the TV personality of sexually pursuing them when they were teenagers, according to a joint investigation by the Guardian and ITV.
Morgan's History of Criticism
Morgan, who was Walliams' predecessor on Britain's Got Talent, tweeted in 2022 that the 55-year-old was "one of the nastiest frauds in TV". In May of the same year, he delivered the two-word verdict, branding Walliams "soooooo creepy".
In 2019, the broadcaster accused Walliams of liking the "nastiest tweets" about him on X, slamming the comedian as "two-faced", "poisonous", and "cowardly" in a social media post. A year later, Piers claimed Walliams made his "skin crawl".
Feud Over Britain's Got Talent
Also in 2020, Morgan ruled out a return to Britain's Got Talent. He told the Sunday Mirror: "I couldn't 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."
Poking fun at the feud, Walliams took to X to share an image showing him draped over Morgan with the caption: "Piers Morgan loves me really."
Allegations Against Walliams
One woman alleged Walliams began contacting her when she was 15 after meeting her at a Little Britain fan event, before starting a sexual relationship with her at the age of 17, ITV News reported. 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. Walliams denies the allegations made against him.
He sought an injunction to prevent the broadcast and publication of the investigation at the High Court, with his lawyers arguing he was a suicide risk. In a reported letter to the Guardian and ITV News regarding the claims, 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."
