David Walliams was sentenced by the BBC after pretending to have a Nazi salute when recording the show of successful comedy panels Would I lie to you?.
The BBC said the gesture was “completely unacceptable” and apologized to public members if they were offended by the incident when filming a special Christmas. The Walliams representative was contacted to comment.
The Times of LondonWho first reported the story, said that Walliams had raised his arm to salute as a Call the midwife Actress Helen George attempted to convince the panelists that she suffered a sprain from the wrist “to agitate” during a Strictly coming to dance tour.
Sebastian Topan, a producer of radio Times who was in the audience, said Little Britain Star Walliams made the gesture twice during the recording in Pinewood. “Another panels spoke when David Walliams started to salute Nazi,” Topan told BBC News. “I was shocked by what I had seen.”
He added that the host Rob Brydon “wanted to exceed him as quickly as he could”, and the gesture of Walliams did not amusing others Would I lie to you? Players. “It was like an elephant in the room after that, because the incident was early in recording and therefore the rest of the show was weird,” added Topan.
A spokesperson for Banijay UK, who has Would I lie to you? Producer Zeppotron, said the images would be cut off from the final show.
“Any attempt at humor concerning this deeply offensive gesture, whether it is disseminated or not, is completely unacceptable in any context,” said the spokesperson. “He was immediately recognized during the registration that this segment would in no case be disseminated in any case and we apologize to those who were for registration for any caused offense.”
The BBC said: “The use of such an offensive gesture is completely unacceptable and we apologize for everyone when recording the offense caused.”
Walliams was a Great Britain has a talent judge for a decade, but a 2022 Tutor The newspaper investigation revealed that he had made disrespectful comments on two candidates. He then continued and installed with producer Fremantle on the transcription leak Tutor.
