LUCY Beaumont has seen an unexpected career boost as her book sales have topped the charts after she ‘outed’ David Walliams
Her parenting book Drinking Custard: Diary of A Custard Mum, which was released in 2022, has been sold out online by fans.
The book is currently number 1 in Motherhood books on amazon, as well as number 1 in Child Discipline.
And that’s not the only boost. Insiders tell us there has also been a huge spike in ticket sales for her tour, Bad At Quiz Shows, Good with Wierdos.
A source close to Lucy said: “This is all been very unexpected but the feedback to Lucy coming forward has been amazing.
“She did a really brave thing, and while she expected it to affect her career for the worse, quite the opposite has happened.
“Her book, which came out for years ago, has now sold out, and there has been a noticeable surge in demand for tickets of her tour. Lucy is as surprised as anyone, but it just goes to show how much support and love for her there is right now.”
Earlier this week, on the allegations against him and tried to help one of his alleged victims.
Walliams was behind a sex claim injunction on Tuesday after losing a bid to gag the media and keep his identity secret.
The 55-year-old has been accused of – including two as young as 15 – Walliams has denied all wrongdoing.
Following the naming of Walliams, Lucy revealed she gave information to The Guardian after she was approached by someone who alleged their job was to take “young girls” to Walliams’ dressing room.
Speaking to Sky News, comedian Lucy also said she had accepted that she won’t work on TV again – admitting her fears that speaking out would block future jobs.
She said: “The reason I’m speaking out about this when I know everyone I know knows this, and I don’t hear anybody talking about it.
“And honestly, I don’t think I’ll work in telly again. I honestly don’t.”
However, the boost in sales shows just how much support it appears Lucy has.
Lucy told Sky News that while she never personally worked alongside Walliams or witnessed the allegations against him, she was approached by an alleged victim of his – whom she feared would “take her own life”.
“I did as much as I could do privately and whenever I’ve heard a rumour about anyone, I’ve done everything I can,” she said.
“There’s only so much you can do. I’m not the . Nothing seems to be illegal, but I was really worried, and I was one of the whistleblowers. I was one of the people to let The Guardian know.”
“I was worried that these girls were young. What I did was I then tried to contact some of them to check and to ask if they were alright.”
Lucy revealed she contacted an alleged victim and offered to pay her legal fees as she was “in a really bad way”.
“I was really worried about her. I was really worried she was going to take her own life because of it, she had put stuff online, and there was evidence that she was in a dressing room.
“I offered to pay legal fees to try and get her some protection, and I’m not saying necessarily that what she said was true, but I wanted to help her because it was a world that she was really out of depth with, and she, I believe, had signed an NDA.”
She added that the girl was not just restricted in talking to the media but she “couldn’t talk to family or friends or a therapist”.
A three-year joint investigation by ITV News and the Guardian has revealed allegations dating back as far as 2003 against Walliams. He denies the claims.
One of the schoolgirls said an alleged encounter amounted to “sexual assault” and claims he told her to wait until she was 16 for sex.
Multiple women have also claimed they were “groomed” by the star when they were teens and have painted the star as “pushy” and “predatory”.
In a statement to ITV News and The Guardian, Walliams saying “I am not a sexual predator”.
He 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…
“I am not a sexual predator… I have not broken the law… I am devastated that some of the women I met ten to twenty years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
