David Walliams has been accused by multiple women of using his power and celebrity status to prey on young women and on teenagers.
It was revealed that he was the celebrity who was trying to get an injunction against being named in the media when the right to appeal timeline had passed.
He later said in a statement that while he accepts that he is culpable for possibly not being as nice as he should have been, that nothing that he did was illegal.
The statement reads: "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, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me."
Meirion Jones, an investigative journalist who has been doing a lot of work in investigating the actions of David Walliams, joined Anton Savage on Newstalk Breakfast to explain what was going on.
He said: "These [accusations] are not at the level of, say, the Russell Brand court case, but the allegations are that he behaved inappropriately with under 16 year olds and over 16 year olds.
"A number of young women have come forward to say that they are unhappy with the way he was treated.
"The Metropolitan Police are asking the journalists involved from The Times and from ITN and the Guardian as to what evidence they have to see if there is any grounds for taking any further action.
"What is happening, though, is that more people are coming forward. I had a call yesterday from someone who works in television, and this is an allegation, it's not proved, but they were saying they had seen David Walliams behaving inappropriately with another under 16 year old girl.
"What I would expect would be that in the wake of these stories that appeared yesterday after a court ruled that they could do, that we will see more and more allegations coming forward."
In the wake of the allegations, Walliams has been dumped by his publisher, his Alton Towers area shut down, and let go from Britain's Got Talent.
"You would [there is no coming back from this]," Mr Jones continued, "but stranger things have happened. Some people managed to reinvent themselves.
"It really depends on what further allegations come forward. If you were going to compile a list of the top three people that you would expect to be exposed, he would have been one of those three people.
"He's keeping a low profile at the moment. It'll be interesting to see how he and his lawyers try to deal with this.
"Obviously, they fought tooth and nail to try and prevent to get an injunction to prevent this story coming out. But I know the people at The Guardian and at ITN, they have been working on this for three or four years.
"They have been gradually collecting more and more information. They feel very confident in their story.
"You know, obviously, he has the option now of trying to sue them for libel or whatever, but at the moment, there's no indication that he is going to do that."
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Main image: David Walliams seen during the Rocketman UK Premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London. Pic: James Warren / SOPA Images/Sipa USA
