David Walliams just faced a Met Police investigation into decades of grooming allegations
David Walliams is facing a Metropolitan Police investigation.
It follows a three-year joint investigation by ITV News and the Guardian.
They accuse him of grooming and sexually assaulting teenage girls and young women, over two decades.
David Walliams denies all of it.
So let's go through what we actually know.
David Walliams is 55. He co-created Little Britain. He wrote children's books that have sold more than 60 million copies. And he judged Britain's Got Talent from 2012 to 2022.
The investigation came out four days ago.
That was only after London's High Court threw out his bid to stop himself being named.
Justice Matthew Nicklin dismissed that application eleven days ago. He found David Walliams had a serious, long-running psychiatric vulnerability. But he said the evidence did not show suicide was inevitable.
David Walliams did not appeal. So the protection on his name ran out, and the story was published.
Now, here's the scale of it. More than 30 people gave first-hand accounts. And the allegations go back to 2003.
One woman says David Walliams started contacting her when she was 15. They had met at a Little Britain fan event. She says a sexual relationship began once she turned 17.
Another woman, named only as Jade, says she was invited to his house at 15. She says he pulled up her top. She says she pulled away and told him no. David Walliams was 36 at the time. This was in 2007.
One woman called her alleged encounter with him at 15 a sexual assault. Several others accuse him of grooming them as teenagers.
And the investigation goes further still. It alleges inappropriate conduct on the set of Britain's Got Talent. And at his former publisher, HarperCollins.
So what's happened since?
Three to four days ago, Scotland Yard said it would carefully assess any allegations made to it. At that point, it said it had received none. It told people to call 101, quoting a reference number. And it said it had contacted the organisations behind the investigation, to help potential victims come forward.
Now here's the newest piece. One outlet, ABC News Australia, reports the Met has gone further. It says the Met has now received several allegations of serious sexual offences against David Walliams. And that it has opened a formal investigation.
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