David Walliams dropped by his publishers

You will be telling me the world is round next.

I had to read some of his books to my GCs and although some of the early ones were OK, they just became worse and worse. I even wonder if the first ones were ghost written.

He clearly sees himself as the natural heir to Roald Dahl but he has none of Roald Dahl's flair, originality or talent. His books even copy the format of the Dahl books.

As for being sleazy, he is a known sex pest.

There was even quite a lot of unpleasant stuff about women within the books.

Am glad he has been dropped, he always struck me as arrogant and probably thought - like some other men in the public eye - that he was above being held accountable.

Galaxy

You will be telling me the world is round next.

It is in fact an oblate ellipsoid.

DS and I did enjoy the Gangsta Granny film. But I am not flabbergasted by the news.

You are showing off now Allira

So we all found him awful!! I thought some of his appearances on Britains got Talent were truly terrible and I always wondered how he stayed as long as he did I couldn’t believe how smutty he was allowed to be on a programme kids would be watching.
I ve never read any of his books but I know a lot of kids love reading them
Nasty little man

It looks to me as if everyone knew who worked with him as well. How many times is this going to happen.

I thought he was gay, perhaps not.

BlueBelle

So we all found him awful!! I thought some of his appearances on Britains got Talent were truly terrible and I always wondered how he stayed as long as he did I couldn’t believe how smutty he was allowed to be on a programme kids would be watching.
I ve never read any of his books but I know a lot of kids love reading them
Nasty little man

DH loathed him. Mostly because if his behaviour on BGT.
Youngest grandson loved his early books though.

Not in the least surprised, he has always been creepy and his behaviour on BGT was embarrassing and when he was kissing Simon Cowell and making suggestive remarks it was making SC very uncomfortable.

It reminded me very much of how Jimmy Savile kissed women's hands and made creepy remarks to them and he did all this openly, just as DW does, because they knew nobody would call them out. I think we will be hearing a lot more about this story and I have said this before on GN.

Galaxy

You are showing off now Allira

It's DH, not me!

"The Earth is not round, dear" he tells me.
Well, it certainly looks it! 🌏

Well said Bluebelle, I have never liked him, been saying for years he's been hiding in plain sight. Revolting man.

I’ve always found him creepy.

Used to wonder if he were gay, but wasn’t he married to a glam model? (Not that makes any difference).

I wondered what she saw in him.

He makes my skin crawl, as did Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris.

We must always follow our gut reaction.

As a child I had an Uncle who used to insist on sitting me on his knee and tickling me, I hated him.

He once visited our home, as he left he demanded a kiss, I refused and ran away, my stupid Mother told me off for not kissing him.

We must allow our children and grandchildren to follow their gut reactions.

He was a ‘guest’ on The Wheel the other weekend and made some quite nasty and inappropriate remarks to the contestant. It was cringeworthy. I was surprised they hadn’t edited him out.

His books are horrible. They have a bullying undertone to many of them and the characters are awful. Apart from that, they're badly written.
I never understood his type of humour and disliked Little Britain. He and Matt Lucas seemed to revel in mocking people with physical or mental difficulty.

I loathed Little Britain, though I only watched a couple of the early ones so possibly shouldn’t comment
I dislike so called comedians who mock people, humiliate them, plain nasty

Well I can see we all agree on this one, a rare take on GN

He’s always struck me as a creep. His books are also awful and poorly written. Long time coming, though I’m sure it is likely in response to some scandal close to being made public. I am not convinced the publisher suddenly became a company of integrity and is merely ridding itself of an unsavory writer.

He's certainly not a wonderful author and his behaviour on BGT was like a cringefest.

Sago

He makes my skin crawl, as did Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris.

We must always follow our gut reaction.

As a child I had an Uncle who used to insist on sitting me on his knee and tickling me, I hated him.

He once visited our home, as he left he demanded a kiss, I refused and ran away, my stupid Mother told me off for not kissing him.

We must allow our children and grandchildren to follow their gut reactions.

Sadly, too many generations have been ingrained with the mentality of forcing physical affection onto children. This is why grooming is so successful in plain site. For every creep uncle or famous creep like Walliams and Saville, there are many children—especially girls—who grow up being reluctant to enforce physical boundaries with violators. We teach them to fear being viewed as impolite more than essentially being assaulted. I don’t even like to see people guilt-trip toddlers with “granny will be so sad if you don’t give a hug and a kiss”. It’s harmful behaviour that prepares them to accept unwanted touching later in life.

I’m another one who never liked him.

But - it does beg the question - how in Hades did he ever become “a celebrity” in the first place? Let alone “a successful children’s author”. Some people must have thought he was wonderful.

I ve never read any of his books but called him a wonderful author on the back of all the children I know love his books and anyone who can get children reading and enjoying reading gets a tick but not having read them myself I don’t know if they are well written or not
But I do know he oozes sleeze and a very nasty streak
He’s now acting all innocent and saying he’s never been called out for any inappropriate behaviour with young ladies