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    BBC faces calls to pull David Walliams from Christmas schedules amid harassment claims
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    BBC faces calls to pull David Walliams from Christmas schedules amid harassment claims

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    1. Jealous-Shallot-3071 on

      Is the BBC really “facing calls” or is this just click bait?

      I’ve got 104 friends and not a single one of them has called the BBC asking them to remove Walliams from the schedule. Yes, he’s a dead-eyed weirdo, but none of us care about the poxy Christmas schedule to be up in arms about it

    2. video-kid on

      I mean they’ve pulled Mandy, presumably for a Trump joke, so I don’t see why they should air an episode where a dude made a nazi salute during filming.

    3. Dayzed-n-Confuzed on

      Ah. Good old “facing calls” and “amid claims “. Guilty until proven innocent and then still guilty of something

    4. Hobo_Drifter on

      Why not pull him earlier? Why wait til he is publicly exposed when many people in the industry were already aware of his behaviour?

    5. Practical-Purchase-9 on

      There were stories about him for years online, if random redditors knew about it, don’t tell me BBC management and others in TV weren’t aware. Same old story, ‘open secret’ in the industry gets swept under the carpet until it blows up, now his position is untenable and has to go, must be an investigation, lessons will be learned, etc.

      BBC seem to like putting a target on themselves over and over with cases like this.

    7. Minimus-Anxiety on

      I swear the bbc slowly “exposes” people doing minor stuff to hide the people doing saville levels of stuff…..

    8. Electronic_Line7020 on

      The BBC will always be damned either way – everything will be spun. And really – I think most people get it – a section of the UK has an agenda against the BBC – tell us something new. But you know what – I bet the venn diagram overlap between people who hate the BBC and people who want traditional British Values is more or less total. And there are few things more British than the BBC – so – my question is – when every last aspect of us has been deleted by this self eviscerating madness, what that can truly be called ‘British’ will be left – other than self-hatred?

    9. rwinh on

      The BBC really do take weird approaches to allegations like this.

      When an individual is well known for sexually assaulting or making inappropriate comments or actions, they drag their heels to follow the story or refuse to take immediate action (Savile, Williams, Wallace).

      But if they go by hearsay with no evidence they pull out all the stops to get a story and when it’s revealed there is no story or evidence, and the allegations were essentially made up, they weirdly pull the “b..but..but it’s in the public interest” card and refuse to apologise for their News of the World approach to journalism (Cliff Richard being the worst one recently that comes to mind, but you also have William Roache, Matthew Kelly and Michael Turner).

      It is shocking for an allegedly neutral state broadcaster. They do some things fantastically, but they also take a tabloid, gutter press approach to journalism in some instances, especially when they try to break a story first but with little information.

    11. GunstarGreen on

      Even before the allegations I always hated this sod. He played the ‘predatory gay man’ character to exhaustion. “Carefully around me, I might bum you against your will, how hilarious!”. It’s a stereotype that is so damaging to gay men.