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David Walliams accused of sexual misconduct after losing injunction bid
Woman accusing Walliams of grooming speaks to BBC Newsnight
ITV News and the Guardian have published reports alleging that David Walliams has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women, including one who was aged 15.
The allegations were made as a part of a joint three-year investigation, external by the two news organisations, which was published after the entertainer lost a legal bid to stop the claims against him being made public.
Some of the women accuse Walliams of "grooming" them when they were teenagers. One now characterises her alleged encounter with Walliams at 15-years- old as a "sexual assault".
In a letter to journalists published by the Guardian, Walliams said he was "not a sexual predator" and had not "broken the law".
He said he "realised that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with" and said he regretted not always taking "people's feelings properly into account".
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Walliams shot to fame alongside Matt Lucas in the early 2000s with BBC sketch comedy Little Britain, and also served as a judge on ITV's Britain's Got Talent and launched a best-selling series of children's books.
The Guardian and ITV News say that several of the women, who do not know one another, allege they were targets of unwanted sexual advances from Walliams.
One woman alleges she met Walliams at a fan event when she was 15. She says he groomed her and they had sex when she was 17