Jul 17, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
In our first episode we take on the career of children's author and TV personality David Walliams. Once regarded as a national treasure, now the subject of abuse allegations, our conversation…
most successful children's author.
And he's kind of acclaimed to be one of the most successful children's authors in the last 20 years.
He was accused by a couple of anonymous sources from HarperCollins for inappropriate misconduct.
One employee left with a five-figure payout.
There was a consensus within HarperCollins that any female colleague who would be visiting David Walliams, working with David Walliams, should do it in a pair, essentially was the internal writing of this.
If you work with David Walliams, don't visit him.
Don't sit in a meeting with him alone.
Make sure you have someone else.
which in our experience is a brilliant way of describing HR and how they tackle things.
So David is seeking legal advice on this.
And I thought that was interesting because it's not legal action.
It's legal advice.
And often you hear of people taking legal action against, you know, accusations like this when they're maybe inflamed, not true.
Can you think of any situation in life, any scenario whereby the people who are responsible for the safeguarding and well-being of their employees would say, okay, you two men, you go together.
course not.
It's just absolutely ludicrous that they would entertain people The fact that in order to be around this individual, you have to be in pairs to keep you safe.
I think
it really speaks to the position that David Walliams hold stroke held um at his publishers and what he came to represent um and why he was why he was so untouchable up to now
most successful children's author.
And he's kind of acclaimed to be one of the most successful children's authors in the last 20 years.
He was accused by a couple of anonymous sources from HarperCollins for inappropriate misconduct.
One employee left with a five-figure payout.
There was a consensus within HarperCollins that any female colleague who would be visiting David Walliams, working with David Walliams, should do it in a pair, essentially was the internal writing of this.
If you work with David Walliams, don't visit him.
Don't sit in a meeting with him alone.
Make sure you have someone else.
which in our experience is a brilliant way of describing HR and how they tackle things.
So David is seeking legal advice on this.
And I thought that was interesting because it's not legal action.
It's legal advice.
And often you hear of people taking legal action against, you know, accusations like this when they're maybe inflamed, not true.
Can you think of any situation in life, any scenario whereby the people who are responsible for the safeguarding and well-being of their employees would say, okay, you two men, you go together.
course not.
It's just absolutely ludicrous that they would entertain people The fact that in order to be around this individual, you have to be in pairs to keep you safe.
I think
it really speaks to the position that David Walliams hold stroke held um at his publishers and what he came to represent um and why he was why he was so untouchable up to now
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