Former Holby City actor Jeremy Edwards has said he was "sexually humiliated" after David Walliams pulled down his trousers and exposed his penis during a Comic Relief sketch in 2006. Edwards, best known for his roles in Hollyoaks, Holby City and Millie Inbetween, said he was a last-minute replacement for a Little Britain sketch alongside Walliams and comedian David Baddiel at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
In the sketch, Walliams performed as Des Kay, a predatory, gay former children's entertainer and TV presenter, who plays a game of "hide the sausage" before lunging at Edwards and pulling down his jeans and underwear, leaving him partially naked in front of an audience of 3,500 people. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Edwards, 55, said he had been misled about what the sketch would involve and was only told his trousers would be pulled down. "It simply was abuse. I did not agree to it," he said. He added that the footage, which featured in the Comic Relief Does Little Britain Live DVD released in 2007, had "haunted me for years".S1S2
Walliams, 55, a best-selling author and former Britain's Got Talent judge, has previously said the incident was a mistake, telling The Sun in 2011 that his pants came down at the same time as Edwards' trousers. The comments come as Walliams was named as part of an alleged sexual misconduct investigation by The Guardian and ITV News on Tuesday, in which one woman described an alleged encounter when she was 15 as "sexual assault" and multiple women accused him of "grooming" them as teenagers. Walliams denies any wrongdoing, and in a letter he said he had "behaved thoughtlessly" at times but had not broken the law.S1S2
On Friday, the Metropolitan Police said it had received a number of non-recent "serious" sex offence allegations against him in recent days. Several sources alleged inappropriate behaviour towards women at Britain's Got Talent, where Walliams served as a judge from 2012 to 2022, and at his publisher HarperCollins, which dropped him last year. His literary agency, Independent Talent Group, also dropped him. Walliams had earlier failed in attempts to obtain an injunction preventing the media from revealing his identity, his lawyers arguing there was a risk he would take his own life.S1
