A SECOND well-known British celebrity has an injunction to prevent allegations about him from being made public, it has been claimed.
It has emerged that a second man “in the public eye” has an injunction in plac after David Walliams was named as the famouis man who failed to get a similar injunction prevent the publication of allegations, including sexual misconduct against him.
The author had been granted anonymity during the proceedings, which was lifted after his injunction bid was dismissed and The Guardian and Independent Television News published their investigations on Tuesday.
Allegations against Walliams claim he used his “abuse of power and status” to contact young women and try to engage in “inappropriate and exploitative sexual activities”.
Walliams has denied all allegations against him.
David Walliams. (Image: PA)
Journalist Justine Smith told The Private Eye Podcast, which was released prior to Walliams being named, that there’s another man who has obtained a similar injunction.
She also alleged that the second man has “multiple victims” and that the injunction is “very heavily slapped [on] anyone who dares to say anything about it”.
Smith said: “There are two men at the moment who can’t be named. One for the most recent proceedings, and then one from several months back.
“Both of them, there are injunctions on reporting anything. Both of them multiple, multiple victims. Both of them in the public eye.”
She added: “I’ve spoken to one of the alleged victims in one of them, she’s prepared to speak publicly and be named, but we still can’t publish that.
“He’s managed to get an injunction, very heavily slapped anyone who dares to say anything about it. So we know this man is out there potentially abusing other people and there’s nothing we can do to report it.”
It comes after Russell Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of rape and sexual assault last week.
The former comedian and actor, now 51, was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court last week of raping a woman in 2009, as well as sexually assaulting female TV and radio workers between 2004 and 2009.
The judge sentencing Brand said allegations in the press and TV against the celebrity “empowered a number of women to come forward and tell their stories”, and told Brand he had become a “sexual predator” as he was starting to become famous.
One of his fans said she was raped as a 21-year-old by Brand in 2009 at his luxury London home, while female staffers at Channel 4, MTV, and Capital Radio came forward to reveal how they had been sexually assaulted by the TV star.
Justice Bennathan slammed Brand’s “staggering arrogance” as he sentenced him to 10 and a half years in prison for rape and three counts of sexual assault.
