{"id":495142,"date":"2025-12-19T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/british-writer-david-walliams-fired-from-his-publishing-house-following-harassment-accusations\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:53:20","slug":"british-writer-david-walliams-fired-from-his-publishing-house-following-harassment-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/british-writer-david-walliams-fired-from-his-publishing-house-following-harassment-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"British writer David Walliams, fired from his publishing house following harassment accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"The British writer and television presenter, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Walliams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Walliams<\/a>, 54, was fired this Thursday from his literary publishing house, after facing accusations of inappropriate behavior and harassment against several women.\n\nWalliams&#8217; publisher, HarperCollins UK, stated today in a statement that, after &#8220;careful consideration&#8221; and under the leadership of its new CEO, Kate Elton, the company has decided &#8220;not to publish any new titles&#8221; by David Walliams.\n\nAccording to the British newspaper &#8216;The Telegraph&#8217;, the decision is due to an investigation by the same media outlet into Walliams&#8217; alleged inappropriate behavior with young women.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can also read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/hallan-jueza-muerta-y-arropada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge found dead and covered in her bed, in Colombia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe writer, one of the UK&#8217;s best-selling children&#8217;s book authors, faced accusations of having &#8220;harassed&#8221; young female employees of HarperCollins.\n\nAccording to &#8216;The Telegraph&#8217;, one of the workers who recounted her situation with Walliams, &#8220;received a five-figure payment from the publisher and left the company&#8221;.\n\n&#8220;At HarperCollins, we take the well-being of our employees very seriously and have processes in place to report and investigate concerns. To respect people&#8217;s privacy, we do not comment on internal matters,&#8221; the publisher indicated today, after the news was released.\n\nWalliams rose to fame over 20 years ago with the comedy series &#8216;Little Britain&#8217; on the BBC and began writing children&#8217;s books with HarperCollins in 2008, becoming a best-selling author, with over 40 children&#8217;s stories and collections and sales of over 60 million copies.\n\nWalliams&#8217; television career, who served as a judge on the British version of &#8216;Got Talent&#8217; between 2012 and 2022, was also tarnished after he made sexist comments about one of the female contestants on the show, which forced him to leave the show.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British writer and television presenter, David Walliams, 54, was fired this Thursday from his literary publishing house, after facing accusations of inappropriate behavior and harassment against several women. Walliams&#8217; publisher, HarperCollins UK, stated today in a statement that, after &#8220;careful consideration&#8221; and under the leadership of its new CEO, Kate Elton, the company has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24Oa","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}