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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tom Ambrose

David Walliams settles with Britain’s Got Talent production company over leaked comments

David Walliams
Fremantle has apologised to David Walliams and says it has reached an amicable solution after he accused it of causing him psychiatric harm and financial loss. Photograph: Dymond/Thames/Syco/Shutterstock

Britain’s Got Talent production company Fremantle has apologised and settled with David Walliams after comments he made while working on the show were leaked.

Walliams made derogatory and sexually explicit remarks about contestants during the recording of an episode of the ITV talent show, which he was a judge on between 2012 and 2022.

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