The producer of Britain’s Got Talent has agreed an “amicable resolution” with David Walliams and stated it is “sincerely sorry that his private conversations” had been leaked when he was a choose on the present.
The comic – who appeared between 2012 and final 12 months – sued Fremantle for misuse of personal data and breach of knowledge safety legal guidelines.
High Court paperwork launched final month revealed he’d accused the corporate of inflicting him psychiatric hurt and monetary loss.
Walliams left the present in 2022 after apologising for “disrespectful comments” about contestants throughout filming breaks in January 2020 on the London Palladium.
Those remarks emerged in November final 12 months after a transcript was leaked to The Guardian.
According to court docket paperwork, Walliams, 52, believed producers “retained transcripts… of everything he said” and that Fremantle “must be the ultimate source” of the leaks.
The comic stated he assumed he was solely being recorded when contestants had been performing or throughout behind-the-scenes filming.
He alleged non-public conversations, together with him speaking about meals dependancy issues and his father’s loss of life, might have been recorded.
The court docket paperwork included a draft report by a retired guide psychiatrist, Dr Mark Collins, who stated the leak had “a profound, severe and, at times, very worrying effect on (Walliams’s) mental health”.
It stated Walliams “is plagued by uncontrollable negative thoughts”, together with “active suicidal thoughts”, and is taking treatment.
Walliams additionally stated his earnings had been “very severely reduced” as a result of unfavorable publicity across the story.
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In an announcement, Fremantle stated: “We are pleased that we have achieved an amicable resolution of this dispute with David.
“We are sincerely sorry that his non-public conversations when a choose on Britain’s Got Talent had been printed, and the nice misery this induced David.
“We have reviewed our production practices on the show to ensure they fully respect the expectations of our talent whilst satisfying the requirements of the show.
“We thank David for being an necessary a part of the Britain’s Got Talent household and the enduring success of the present and hope to have alternatives to work with him sooner or later.”
Source: information.sky.com”