British comedian and children’s author David Walliams accused of sexual misconduct

LONDON (AP) – British children's author and comedian David Walliams applied his fame to groom girls and young women for sex, two British news outlets noted on Tuesday.

Key points

• ITV News and the Guardian newspaper remarked their joint investigation featured interviews with multiple women who provided first-hand accounts of Walliams' conduct.
• He had sought a court injunction to bar ITV News and the Guardian from identifying him in their reporting.
• A judge rejected his injunction request last week, but protected his identity until late Monday.
• "I am not a sexual predator, " Walliams remarked, according to ITV.

ITV News and the Guardian newspaper remarked their joint investigation featured interviews with multiple women who provided first-hand accounts of Walliams' conduct. While others accused him of grooming them when they were teens, one woman alleged he sexually assaulted her at his house when she was 15.

Walliams, 55, denied the allegations. He had sought a court injunction to bar ITV News and the Guardian from identifying him in their reporting. His lawyers asserted that publication of sexual misconduct allegations would lead him to take his own life.

Notably, a judge rejected his injunction request last week, but protected his identity until late Monday.

"I am not a sexual predator, " Walliams remarked, according to ITV. "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."

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