David Walliams Biography
David Walliams is an English comedian, actor, writer, and TV personality. He is best known for his collaborations with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy shows Little Britain and Come Fly With Me. From 2012 to 2022, Walliams judged ITV’s talent show Britain’s Got Talent. He also writes children’s novels, which have sold over 37 million copies worldwide.
How old is David Walliams? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 20 August 2023. He was born in 1971 in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. His real name is David Edward Williams.
David Walliams Family – Education
He is the son of London Transport engineer Peter Williams and laboratory worker Kathleen Williams (née Ellis), who worked at Sutton Grammar School. Walliams grew up in Banstead, Surrey, specifically in the Nork neighbourhood, with his mother, father, and sister Julie. He attended Collingwood Boys’ School in Wallington and Reigate Grammar School in Surrey, where he was a contemporary of novelist Robert Shearman.
From 1989 to 1992, he attended the University of Bristol, where he lived at Manor Hall and earned a Bachelor of Arts (Drama). During his university holidays in 1990, Walliams performed with the National Youth Theatre, when he met future comedy partner and friend Matt Lucas. He changed his stage name to David Walliams when he joined Campus Equity since there was already a member named David Williams. Walliams’ father, Peter, died in 2007 from an aggressive form of liver cancer.
David Walliams Wife – Children
In 2009, Walliams dated model Lauren Budd, who was eighteen years old.Budd claimed Walliams approached her agent, Premier Model Management, about a date with her. In 2009, Walliams started dating Dutch model Lara Stone. They got engaged on January 20, 2010, after her parents approved of their relationship. The pair married on May 16, 2010, in downtown London’s Claridge’s Hotel.
On May 6, 2013, Stone gave birth to the couple’s child, Alfred. It was reported on March 4, 2015, that after five years of marriage, the couple had chosen to attempt a trial separation after “drifting apart”. Walliams filed for divorce from Stone on September 9, 2015, citing “unreasonable behaviour”. The couple was given a decree nisi the next day, and the marriage was formally dissolved six weeks after filing. In the book Inside Little Britain, Walliams hinted at being pansexual but stated that he disliked being labeled as such.
David Walliams Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
David Walliams 24 Hour Panel People
In March 2011, Walliams participated in 24 Hour Panel People, a 24-hour marathon of filming several panel show styles to raise funds for Comic Relief. The recordings were livestreamed on the BBC website. He participated in 19 episodes of “classic” television panel shows.
David Walliams Podcast
Walliams hosted a classical music podcast for kids called David Walliams’ Marvellous Musical Podcast. Classic FM produced the show, which earned gold at the 2020 British Podcast Awards. The show is a classical music podcast for children. The intended audience for the show is children aged seven to twelve. Classic FM produces the podcast. The show is a 10-part series. Clive Davis scored the show four out of five stars in The Times.
David Walliams Got Talent
From 2012 to 2022, Walliams served as a judge on ITV1’s Britain’s Got Talent, with Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon, and Simon Cowell. He was named Best Judge at the National Television Awards in 2015, 2018, and 2019 for his work on the series.
In 2022, it was revealed that Walliams would join Seven Network’s Australia’s Got Talent as a judge for the tenth season, alongside fellow Britain’s Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon and Australian actresses Kate Ritchie and Shane Jacobson.
In November 2022, after controversy developed over leaked critical comments made by Walliams to participants, it was announced that Walliams had decided “to bow out after a ten-year run” and that he wants to leave the program “on a high after a wonderful time”. He was succeeded by Bruno Tonioli, a judge on Dancing with the Stars.
David Walliams and Matt Lucas
Walliams and Lucas initially met at the Public Youth Theater, where they assumed minor parts in portrayals and peculiar personifications of different stone artists. They were likewise stars of the Principal Parody Channel show Pound and Peas and played little parts in Plunkett and Maclaine as detainees. They showed up together in a music video for the Pet Shop Young men single “I’m with Moronic”.
The pair are most popular for Little England, which ran from 2003 to 2009 on the BBC in the UK and from 2008 onwards on HBO in the USA. The series included characters like Emily Howard, Beam McCooney, and Sebastian Love. A live stage show, Little England Live, was created in 2006, trailed via occasional and good cause specials until 2009. A side project series, Little England USA, was created in the US by HBO in 2008.
Their later series was Come Fly with Me, a six-section series circulating on BBC One. The principal episode was the third most-watched program of Christmas Day 2010 and the most watched satire of the year. The couple have not worked or disclosed any appearances together since mid 2011, despite the fact that they each make separate appearance appearances in Michael Winterbottom’s 2013 film The Vibe of Adoration. Little England got back to BBC Radio 4 in October 2019 for an oddball extraordinary entitled Little Brexit.
David Walliams Books
In 2008, Walliams acquired a publishing contract with HarperCollins for two children’s novels. The first book, The Boy in the Dress, was published in 2008 and delves into Little Britain themes such as cross-dressing and effeminacy. The second book, Mr Stink, was drawn by Quentin Blake and received the Children’s Award in 2010. Walliams’ third book, Billionaire Boy, was released in 2010 and turned into a 60-minute film.
Walliams’ fourth book, Gangsta Granny, was published in 2011 and received the Red House Children’s Book Award. His sixth book, Ratburger, was published in 2012 and adapted into a one-off drama for Sky One. In 2013, BBC One produced a 70-minute film based on Walliams’ sixth book, Demon Dentist.
Walliams’ sixth book, Awful Auntie, was published in 2014 and is set in the 1930s. Grandpa’s Great Escape was released in 2015, and it follows a child named Jack as he attempts to rescue his grandfather from a care home managed by an evil matron. GivingTales, a children’s storybook app, was backed by Walliams to benefit UNICEF.
Code Name Bananas, which is place in World War II-era Britain, was published in 2020. His next children’s novel, Spaceboy, was released in September 2022. The World’s Worst Parents was published in 2023, but one story from The World’s Worst Children was removed in response to podcaster Georgie Ma’s objection that jokes about minorities were normalized from a young age. The book was later reissued in 2022, featuring a new story about Charlie the Chucker. Walliams’ next book, The World’s Worst Pets, was published in 2022 and illustrated by Adam Stower, while all previous volumes were illustrated by Tony Ross.