A resurfaced 2006 video shows Russell Brand and David Walliams joking that appearing camp or gay was a “smokescreen” for them to attract women. The clip, from an edition of The Russell Brand Show featuring Walliams and Matt Lucas, has circulated online this week after Page Six first reported its existence.
Jokes About a 'Smokescreen'
In the footage, Lucas, who co-wrote Little Britain with Walliams, joked: “Girl, you look gorge. You’re like the two gayest straight blokes there are, aren’t you?”
Walliams, 55, responded: “Isn’t it a wonderful smokescreen?” Brand replied: “Isn’t it, though? Isn’t it glorious? It works wonderfully well.”
Brand's Prison Sentence
The clip has re-emerged just days after Brand was sentenced to 10 years in prison for one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault on Monday. He is now serving time at HMP Wandsworth in London.
Judge Mr Justice Bennathan described him as a “sexual predator” who told a “series of lies” and demonstrated “staggering arrogance.”
Walliams Faces Allegations
On Tuesday, Walliams was named as the celebrity at the centre of a three-year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian. To date, there have been no criminal charges against him, and he denies all allegations.
The best-selling author and former Britain's Got Talent judge was the subject of accusations of “grooming” teenage girls as young as 15 and abusing his position to pursue women. One woman described her alleged encounter with Walliams, when she was 15, as a “sexual assault,” while multiple women accused him of “grooming” them as teenagers.
In response, Walliams denies any wrongdoing and said he's “devastated” by the claims. He sent a letter to journalists working on this investigation and 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.”
