Lucy Beaumont fears she'll 'never work in TV again' after revealing herself as David Walliams whistleblower and says she came forward after filing police report about another predatory man in the industry

Lucy Beaumont says she doesn't 'think I'll work in telly again' after coming forward as a whistleblower in the David Walliams investigation.

Walliams, 55, has been unmasked as the celebrity who fought for a court order to suppress allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and preyed on multiple teenage girls while 'abusing his status' to exploit teens.

On Tuesday, a three-year joint investigation by ITV News and The Guardian revealed a series of allegations dating back to 2003, with some accusers being as young as 15. David denies all the allegations.

Appearing on Sky News, Lucy revealed she went to The Guardian with information about Walliams. She said: 'The reason I'm speaking out about this, when I know everyone I know knows this, and I don't hear anybody talking about it.

'And honestly, I don't think I'll work in telly again. I honestly don't.'

Lucy said that she feels it's her duty as an established name in the TV industry to 'protect younger women' but she acknowledged there's a reason 'you don't hear anybody talking about it.'

'The reason high-profile people aren't saying anything is because they lose work, you're seen as you might be a trouble causer,' she said, adding: 'I will slowly start getting less work, we're all paid really well … no one wants to mess that up.'

Lucy explained her own experience as the victim of predatory behaviour as a teenager 'makes me massively want to help others.'

She told Sky News how at the age of 16 she attended a BBC awards party with her playwright mother Gill Adams. 

Lucy said at the party 'I was taken off by an older man who works on TV. And my mum found us and stopped it.' 

She explained how she didn't find it 'serious' at the time but 'years later, I filed it with the Met Police. The reason for filing it was that if they had heard other things, it might help with others, if there was anything more serious, and they hadn't had anything else about him.'

Lucy explained how she had asked other women in confidence about working with the unnamed man but 'no one had had any problems. So for me, that was put to bed.'

'I did what I felt was the right thing to do. Whilst I was being interviewed by the Met Police. I also told them what were rumours, I hadn't been there, but I told them rumours about perpetrators in comedy.'

'Their response was 'you can't do anything. If someone wants to come forward and talk about it...' 

Speaking in 2023 Lucy said her career was held back by predatory men on the comedy circuit, claiming she could 'name 10 or 15' men in the industry. 

Lucy, said when asked on The Comedian's Comedian Podcast if anything had held her back in her career: 'Predatory male behaviour.

'I've had quite a few incidences where if you're in any other workforce you would go to HR, but there isn't one. I think it's just everywhere and it's not talked about enough.

'It upsets me when I hear about young female comics having the same experiences. I thought for a while it was the same five or six people - and now it's not - I could name you 10 or 15 because of course people talk.'

She added: 'Comedy has the biggest gossips ever so everybody knows - or if you don't know the ones I know yet then you will do soon.

'It attracts such interesting, passionate, raw, edgy, wounded people - but it also attracts predatory men who are really messed up and sexually have been repressed for years. And they get a bit of fame and display these behaviours.

'It just gets covered up. Their agents know and the channels know and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.

'There's been times when I've just wanted to go on Twitter and just let people know everyone that we talk about, but not allowed to say.'

Lucy, who starred in the first series of Celebrity Traitors last year, has revealed she gave information to The Guardian after being 'really worried' one of Walliams' alleged victims would 'take her own life'. 

Lucy was working on a show and a young person came to her and shared the information that they had worked on a show with Walliams and their job was to take 'young girls' to his dressing room. They believed that the girls were over 16. 

Speaking on Sky News, Lucy explained: 'I did as much as I could do privately and whenever I've heard a rumour about anyone, I've done everything I can. 

'There's only so much you can do. I'm not the police. Nothing seems to be illegal, but I was really worried, and I was one of the whistleblowers. I was one of the people to let the Guardian know.' 

Addressing the nature of the TV industry she continued: 'There's no HR department in TV. There's no proper duty of care. There's no social services that you deal with, and it's partly because the industry is very well managed. 

'These are very rare things to happen. It's full of very polite, really hardworking people under pressure. Everyone you work with is lovely, and these things slip through the net because there hasn't been a process that you can deal with.

'People have got agents, but the agents work for the talent. People move around a lot in their positions. You know, someone might be an exec one week, and then the next week they're not, they're working with someone else. So that it does need it does need looking at.'

Lucy confirmed she hasn't worked with Walliams herself and hasn't witnessed any of the allegations first hand. 

She confirmed: 'No, no, I haven't. I've never worked with him. I haven't witnessed anything, and that that's the point, isn't it? And obviously, if there's false allegations against someone, you don't want to be party to that.

'I was worried that these girls were young. What I did was I then tried to contact some of them to check and to ask if they were all right.

'Now I'd been privy to this information, because I used to work in a school, if a pupil came to tell me something that they'd witnessed, you have a duty of care to do that. And I think that's probably never left me.' 

Lucy got in contact with one of the alleged victims and offered her legal help. However, the girl denied her offer of help after explaining she had been silenced. 

Lucy explained: 'So I contacted one of the young girls, and she was in a really bad way. I was really worried about her. I was really worried she was going to take her own life because of it, she had put stuff online, and there was evidence that she was in a dressing room. 

'I offered to pay legal fees to try and get her some protection, and I'm not saying necessarily that what she said was true, but I wanted to help her because it was a world that she was really out of a depth with, and she, I believe, had signed an NDA.

'And this is the issue with some of these NDAs, the NDA wasn't just about she couldn't talk to the media, I'm nearly crying telling you this, it was that she couldn't talk to family or friends or a therapist.

Lucy confirmed the girl declined her offer of support. 

'She wouldn't talk to me much. She declined my offer. She declined my offer of support, and she just explained that she's been silenced. 

'And she was worried about other people. She was worried that if she told someone, then there was a legal burden on them as well.'

Walliams denies all allegations. 

In a statement to The Guardian and ITV News, the comedian said: 'Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with… I realise I did not always take people's feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.

'And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did…

'I am not a sexual predator… I have not broken the law… I am devastated that some of the women I met ten to twenty years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.'