{"id":2206738,"date":"2025-12-20T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2206738"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:57:16","slug":"childrens-author-denies-inappropriate-behavior-after-publisher-drops-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/childrens-author-denies-inappropriate-behavior-after-publisher-drops-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s author denies inappropriate behavior after publisher drops him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2Fnewspress-collage-yq53xibml-1766242576617.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261766224595\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 British children\u2019s author and comedian David Walliams has denied allegations of inappropriate behavior after publisher HarperCollins dropped him.<\/p>\n<p>Walliams, 54, is one of the U.K.\u2019s bestselling children\u2019s book authors and a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/11\/david-walliams-apologizes-for-sexually-explicit-offensive-britains-got-talent-comments\/\">former judge on the TV show \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, HarperCollins said: \u201cAfter careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams. The author is aware of this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Children\u2019s author and comedian David Walliams denied allegations of inappropriate behavior after publisher HarperCollins dropped him.  <span class=\"credit\">Scott A Garfitt\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cAfter careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams,\u201d HarperCollins said. \u201cThe author is aware of this decision.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A spokesperson for Walliams said in a statement that he \u201chas never been informed of any allegations raised against him by HarperCollins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was not party to any investigation or given any opportunity to answer questions. David strongly denies that he has behaved inappropriately and is taking legal advice,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The publisher said it would not comment on internal matters, \u201cto respect the privacy of individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarperCollins takes employee wellbeing extremely seriously and has processes in place for reporting and investigating concerns,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Walliams left \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent\u201d in 2022 over \u201cdisrespectful comments\u201d about auditioning contestants. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Walliams has published over 40 children\u2019s books and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, according to his website. <\/p>\n<p>Several of them, including \u201cGangsta Granny,\u201d have been adapted into a BBC comedy dramas and stage productions.<\/p>\n<p>Walliams left his role as judge on \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent\u201d in 2022 after apologizing for making \u201cdisrespectful comments\u201d about auditioning contestants.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 British children\u2019s author and comedian David Walliams has denied allegations of inappropriate behavior after publisher HarperCollins dropped him. Walliams, 54, is one of the U.K.\u2019s bestselling children\u2019s book authors and a former judge on the TV show \u201cBritain\u2019s Got Talent.\u201d In a statement on Friday, HarperCollins said: \u201cAfter careful consideration, and under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2206739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":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,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21994,22063,21900,21741,397813],"class_list":["post-2206738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-books","tag-children","tag-comedians","tag-entertainment","tag-misconduct"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Childrens-author-denies-inappropriate-behavior-after-publisher-drops-him.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206740,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206738\/revisions\/2206740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}