David Walliams

Is David Walliams gay? It shouldn’t matter, of course. And, as someone who didn’t bat an eyelid at George Michael and Elton John trilling “Wrap her up, I’ll take her home with me/Wrap her up, she is all I need” in a 1985 duet, I’m probably not qualified to answer.

But the question follows the co-creator and co-star of Little Britain around like one of his comedy catchphrases. Jeremy Clarkson once put it to him on TV – Walliams’s characteristically evasive response being “Well, I don’t want to have sex with you” – while The Sun went through a phase of asking it every other day, printing a “gay/straight swingometer” according to the latest Walliams gossip.

So let’s get it out of the way: David, are you gay?....

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