‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Judge David Walliams Sues Fremantle After Being Axed For Allegedly Making ’Sexually Explicit’ Comments
variety.comK.J. Yossman David Walliams has filed suit against “Britain’s Got Talent” producer Fremantle after he was axed last November for allegedly making sexually explicit comments about a contestant.
The data protection suit was filed last week. Walliams was axed from the show, which airs in the U.K. on ITV, last November after transcripts were leaked to The Guardian newspaper in which he reportedly made a number of derogatory comments about contestants.
In the leaked transcripts, which came from three auditions filmed in London in 2020, Walliams was reportedly recorded calling one contestant, a senior citizen, a “cunt” and said of another contestant, who is female: “She thinks you want to fuck her, but you don’t,” adding she had given him a “boner” before it “shrivelled up inside my body.” The Guardian claimed to have reviewed the transcripts.
The newspaper said Walliams had made the comments in the presence of fellow judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon.
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