Does David Walliams have children? All about family as British comedian accused of preying on teenage girls 

David Walliams is no stranger to the spotlight, but the attention the fifty-five-year-old British comedian has drawn this week is a far cry from his days on Little Britain. Multiple women have reportedly accused Walliams of grooming and sexual misconduct, allegations that only became public after he lost a court bid to keep them buried. The Guardian and ITV News published the findings on Tuesday, following a High Court ruling that rejected his attempt to block the investigation.

Walliams, who is also one of Britain’s best-selling children’s authors, denies all of it. In a letter sent to news organisations, he acknowledged he “behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with,” but maintained he is “not a sexual predator” and has “not broken the law.”

(These are Mr. Walliams’ words, offered as his personal denial. The allegations remain untested in any court of law.)

Outside the controversy, he is a father to one child, a son named Alfred, born in May 2013. Alfred’s mother is Dutch supermodel Lara Stone, whom Walliams married in 2010. The two divorced in 2015 and have continued sharing custody of their son since.

Teenage fan allegedly received a phone call from David Walliams after handing him her scripts at a fan event:

As per a report shared by The Guardian, a woman the publication refers to as Alex had just come home from school and was watching The Simpsons in her bedroom when her phone reportedly rang. It was January 2004. Alex was fifteen years old and studying for her GCSEs at the time, while Walliams was thirty-two and a rising name in British comedy off the back of Little Britain.

A few days before the call, Alex had attended a fan event where Walliams was signing autographs as his character Lou. As per the same report, she had brought along printed scripts she had written herself, handing them over with a cover letter that included her contact details. She had not expected him to actually reach out.

When he did call, the first thing he allegedly said was,

“Hi, it’s David Walliams. You know, off the telly!”

So stunned was she by the moment that she immediately documented the conversation across four sides of A4 paper in what The Guardian describes as “youthful scrawl.” In her notes, she wrote,

“David Walliams phoned me!! He said he thought my scripts are VERY FUNNY!”

She also noted that Walliams had appeared surprised upon learning her age, reportedly asking her,

“Right, so you’re, what, 15, 16?”

According to her account, the two stayed in contact over the following two years, speaking by phone on a couple of occasions and exchanging multiple emails. By the time Alex was seventeen, she alleges, they were having physical relations.

(The account above belongs solely to Alex, whose name has been changed at her request. These are allegations. David Walliams denies the claims made against him.)

Alex is one of multiple women who allege David Walliams exploited his celebrity status to pursue them when they were teenagers or young women, as per the joint investigation by The Guardian and ITV News.

The allegations also reportedly extended into his professional life. As per the same investigation, HarperCollins severed ties with Walliams after concerns were raised about his conduct over several years, including an allegation that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a junior female employee and pursued another. In September, the publisher confirmed it would no longer sell or reprint his back catalogue, though few reasons were given publicly at the time.

(These are unverified allegations reported as part of a joint press investigation. This publication does not take a position on the claims made by any individual named or referenced above.)

David Walliams on why he keeps his son Alfred away from the public eye:

Back in December 2025, David Walliams made headlines when he sat down for an appearance on Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking Breakfast show in New Zealand, opening up about life as a father after his split from Lara Stone. The two share custody of their son Alfred and took turns to have him over the Christmas period.

That experience of spending certain Christmases without Alfred crept into Walliams’ writing. His forty-fourth children’s book, Santa and Son, centres on a young boy raised by a single mother whose father is a retired Santa Claus. As per a report shared by Hello! Magazine, Walliams explained the emotional thread running through the story,

“This dad in the book is sort of a deadbeat dad but there’s definitely a theme running through about parents, separated parents. And so, I was thinking a bit about sometimes the pain you feel as a parent when you don’t have your child at Christmas. I think at Christmas there’s a sort of thing that we’ve all got to be happy but there’s often sort of melancholy creeps in.”

He also had plans to make up for the time apart, with Walliams set to take Alfred on a pre-Christmas trip to the Maldives. David Walliams has long been deliberate about shielding Alfred from the public eye. In a separate interview, he was candid about his reasoning,

“Being in the spotlight, I don’t see how that would help them. You don’t know what they’re going to want to do with their lives. What’s the point of them being on display, I don’t understand it.”

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“They might choose to do something completely private with their lives in which case there doesn’t seem to be any advantage to it. You’ve got to make your own choices about that sort of thing. I knew what I was getting into, this is what I signed up to,” he added.

(The views shared above are David Walliams’ own words from interview settings and reflect his personal perspective on parenthood and privacy.)

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