Matt Lucas conspicuously stops daily tweet amid David Walliams allegations - The Independent
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Matt Lucas has stopped posting daily tweets as he faces calls to speak out about his former comedy partner David Walliams’ sexual misconduct allegations.
The comedian, 52, created and starred in sketch shows Little Britain and Come Fly with Me alongside Walliams in the Noughties and 2010s, while the pair hosted a podcast together until earlier this year.
However, Lucas is yet to publicly address the recent allegations made about Walliams, who was accused of sexual misconduct and grooming girls as young as 15 in a joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV on Tuesday (10 November). He denies all allegations.
Former Great British Bake Off host Lucas stopped posting “good morning” on X, which he had been doing daily for several years, on Tuesday 3 November – a week before the Walliams allegations were published.
Since then, X users have urged him to “release a statement” about Walliams, with one commenting on his last tweet: “Any statement about David and what you did and didn’t know. The world is waiting.” Another said: “Anyone else find it odd how it's been almost 24 hours since the news broke and there's been no official statement from Matt Lucas?” Others suggested that he was possibly “keeping a dignified silence” on the matter.
The Independent has contacted Lucas for comment.
Walliams and Lucas met one another in 1990 at the National Youth Theatre and 10 years later, they launched Little Britain as a radio show. It was later developed into a TV series, which ran on the BBC from 2003 until 2006. They subsequently created and starred in Come Fly with Me, but by 2011, they had split comedically – with Walliams writing in his memoir, Camp David, that their relationship was “over for the time being” and that they were “very different people and probably want different things”.
They reportedly reconnected at the funeral for the late Dale Winton in 2018 and worked together on BBC Radio 4’s Little Brexit. Two years later, Lucas said that he and Walliams were “the very best of friends” and messaged “every single day”.
Last year, the pair launched the podcast Making A Scene, which saw them interview celebrity guests. The final episode aired in October 2025.
The duo also worked together on the film Fing!, based on Walliams’ book of the same name. Lucas provides the voice of Fing, while Walliams – who wrote the screenplay – was set to make a cameo. However, in light of the recent allegations against Walliams, Sky announced they will no longer distribute the film in the UK and his cameo has been cut from the film.
Earlier this week, the BBC pulled Little Britain and other titles featuring Walliams from its platforms. A spokesperson said: “These are serious allegations. As such, the BBC is looking carefully at all material featuring and written by David Walliams on our platforms.
“We are in the process of removing some programmes, including Little Britain, whilst this review is under way.”
In a statement to The Guardian and ITV news, 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.
“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,” he continued. “I am not a sexual predator… I have not broken the law… I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
