David Walliams molested young men in humiliating Hide The Sausage game during 'sickening' stage show

David Walliams molested young men by pulling down their underwear in a 'humiliating' game of Hide The Sausage on a Little Britain stage show in 2007.The footage from a BBC documentary features the comedian, playing predatory gay former children's entertainer 'Des Kaye', groping three males said to be aged between 16 and 18. The video features him inviting the audience members on stage, where he appears to kiss their bare buttocks. Walliams is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl and preying on multiple teenagers. He had sought an injunction to prevent publication of the claims, arguing he would take his own life if the allegations became public. He was finally named today.Walliams denies any wrongdoing and threatened to kill himself if his identity were revealed. A video, which can still be seen on YouTube, begins with Walliams asking a volunteer to come up on stage before getting them to confirm their age.When one answers 16, the controversial comedian says, 'Bingo', before adding: 'You're a big boy for 16 aren't you – that's what I'll tell the judge.' A resurfaced video shows David Walliams playing a game of 'Hide The Sausage' with young male audience members Walliams plays the role of 'Des Kaye', described as a predatory former kids' TV entertainer, who humiliates young men when they come on stage by pulling their pants downHe then kisses the boy on the lips before playing his game of 'Hide The Sausage', which involves him lunging for their trousers, dry humping them and leaving them with exposed buttocks and grappling to keep their genitals covered.The footage was blasted by a number of critics who said it portrayed a stereotype of gay men as predatory.In other footage, Walliams can be seen pulling down the pants of actor Jeremy Edwards during a Little Britain Comic Relief Gala at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006. Speaking about the stage performance of the comedy show earlier this year, Walliams insisted: 'It always brought the house down… not a single person ever complained.' In February, The Daily Mail revealed that a convicted child sex offender worked as a stage manager on the production.Gareth Weeks was already a convicted child sex offender during the tour – although there is no suggestion that Walliams and the rest of the production knew about his past at that time. According to a 2020 report from the BBC – which did not mention his role on Little Britain specifically – Weeks had been jailed for sexual offences in 1993, long before he took up his role on Little Britain Live.Despite this, he continued to work in theatres across Britain, where the court later heard he boasted to friends about his links to well-known figures in entertainment. Years later, in 2020, Weeks was sentenced to 15 years in prison for abusing a 14-year-old boy he had groomed online. Walliams' character pulled down actor Jeremy Edwards' jeans and his underwear to near disastrous effect during a Little Britain Comic Relief Gala at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006 Walliams holds the actor on stage by his arm during the game of Hide The Sausage Exeter Crown Court heard he sexually assaulted the teenager during their second meeting, went on to assault him again, and secretly filmed the abuse before sharing the footage with another paedophile.Weeks' involvement in Little Britain Live is documented in Inside Little Britain, which records him using the tour as an opportunity to pursue men.In one disturbing passage, he is described as showing Lucas a photograph on his phone of a young man lying naked beside him in bed, saying he had also taken other images. Lucas told Weeks that it would be best if he kept such photos to himself.Elsewhere, the book recounts an exchange in which Walliams asks Weeks whether he had found any 'cute boys', to which Weeks replied: 'No, none. No c**k. But I'll soon sort that out. I'll find some.'The text, published in 2007, also captured Walliams reflecting on the segment in his own words.Asked what he most looked forward to about the show, he replied: 'The bit I'm most looking forward to is Des Kaye. Getting to play with a nice young man from the audience.'One witness who watched the routine unfold with a boy she estimated to be no more than 17 told the Daily Mail it felt 'like watching somebody being abused in front of you'.Walliams is accused of 'abusing his status' on Little Britain and Britain's Got Talent (BGT) and engaging in 'inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities' with 'a large number' of young women and girls.He denies any wrongdoing and told the High Court he would kill himself if his identity were revealed. It came 24 hours after his friend Russell Brand was jailed for ten-and-a-half years for rape. This afternoon, Downing Street said allegations of sexual misconduct made by multiple women were 'deeply troubling' and the Government is 'concerned' about the use of injunctions. Labour has suspended him as a party member, it later emerged.One accuser, named as Jade by ITV News and The Guardian, alleges she was sexually assaulted by Walliams when she was 15 after he contacted her online.Jade claims they met in Soho before he drove her to his home in his Aston Martin. She alleges Walliams sexually assaulted her at Supernova Heights, the mansion once owned by Oasis star Noel Gallagher.'He asked me to come over and gave me a hug. That's when he kissed me,' Jade alleged of Walliams, who was 36 at the time.'He lifted my top up and sucked on my breast and then tried to put my hand down his trousers. That's when I pulled away and said, 'No'. He had an erection at the time,' she said.'I wasn't ready for sex. I didn't want to do that, with him or with anyone. I didn't want to be touched in that way at all. I mean, I was only 15. It's a sexual assault. It's grooming. It's completely wrong in every way.'In a statement to ITV News and The Guardian, Walliams 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.'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 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.'