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Years of onscreen jokes suggest Walliams’ reputation was ‘in plain sight’ within industry, insider says
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References raise questions over whether claims about bankable stars have been ignored by entertainment industry The comedy sketch opens in a doctor’s office, with a trouserless David Walliams apparently being treated for a fictional sexually transmitted disease. The doctor tells
References raise questions over whether claims about bankable stars have been ignored by entertainment industry The comedy sketch opens in a doctor’s office, with a trouserless David Walliams apparently being treated for a fictional sexually transmitted disease. The doctor tells him it is bad news and he needs to contact “everyone you’ve been intimate with over the last year”. The camera closes in on the comedian’s shocked expression before he gasps: “Everyone?” Continue reading...
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