Andy Burnham’s senior aide reveals David Walliams invited her to Britain’s Got Talent dressing room when she was 17-years-old

Abby Tomlinson, a senior aide to Prime Minister Andy Burnham, alleges that David Walliams invited her to his Britain’s Got Talent dressing room in 2015, when she was 17. She says she and three other teenage girls were left alone with him, and that he later contacted her on social media. Walliams’s lawyers say her claim is misleading.

Her account is among allegations made by several women and girls in an ITV News and Guardian investigation. Two other women, identified as Jade and Alex, allege Walliams contacted them when they were minors; Jade says he sexually assaulted her when she was 15, while Alex says their sexual relationship began when she was 17. Walliams, 55, failed in a High Court bid to prevent publication and did not appeal by the deadline; Burnham’s spokesman called the allegations deeply troubling, and Labour suspended Walliams as a party member.