David Walliams
- Profession: Comedian
- Place/Date of Birth: Surrey, 20 August 2020
- Associated with: Matt Lucas
The 35-year-old has previously dated a string of famous women including Abi Titmuss, Patsy Kensit and Jayne Middlemiss.
He was photographed yesterday watching Matt Lucas tie the knot with long term partner Kevin McGee in London. see photos
Walliams picks up BBC sports honour- Dec 10 2006
Little Britain star David Walliams was honoured at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards after swimming the English Channel for charity.
The actor and comedian undertook the gruelling challenge in July, crossing the channel in 10-and-a-half hours to raise more than £1 million for Sport Relief.
Walliams said it was "very humbling" to be at the star-studded ceremony to receive his special award for the swim.
"The worst part was the cold, it really gets you down so I had to start thinking about Abba songs to keep me happy, and I thought about you a lot," he told a laughing Gary Lineker.
"I saw a lot of jellyfish, but luckily I didn’t get stung. I did go through some sewage," he added.
His writing and performing partner Matt Lucas was at the ceremony at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre to present the special award.
The pair joked they recognised Lineker from his crisp adverts. "Alan Shearer’s out there, he’s better," Lucas told the BBC presenter and former England and Tottenham striker.
"Are you sure you don’t want to give it to anybody who did anything better?" he asked, suggesting boules, croquet and sudoku players and his own Tetris skills, before handing over the trophy to his friend to huge applause.
Walliams, who said he had been congratulated recently for swimming the Atlantic, said he and Lucas wanted to carry on supporting Comic Relief, but that "we might go back to writing funny sketches" instead of attempting new physical challenges.
David eyes up swimming challenge? - Nov 21 2006
Not content with swimming the Channel, David Walliams is thinking about front-crawling from Russia to the United States.
The Little Britain comic is "seriously considering" swimming the Bering Strait, the water between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, and Alaska, one of the 50 American states.
The journey would require the 35-year-old to swim in Arctic temperatures, surrounded by whales and icebergs.
"I trained for a year to swim the Channel and got pretty good at it. I’m seriously considering swimming from Russia to America," he told the Daily Star.
"It’s extremely cold and apparently I would be swimming with a lot of killer whales, so it’s something I’d have to give a lot of thought to.
"But it’s definitely a possibility."
The comic raised more than £1 million for Sport Relief when he swam the Channel earlier this year.
He is now tipped to win the title of BBC Sports Personality Of The Year.
American Lynne Cox was the first person to cross the Bering Strait, according to the paper.
She made it in two hours and six minutes in 1987, but had to double her body-weight to protect herself from the icy waters.
Jessica’s ’boring’ date with Walliams - Oct 18 2006
Comedy actress Jessica Stevenson has admitted to a "boring" date with Little Britain star David Walliams - which ended with him buying her a box of smarties.
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Following a few unnoticed stints on television Walliams hooked up with Lucas (who was making a name for himself as George Dawes alonside Vic Reeves) to create the hilarious, but little known, Rock Profile in which they sent up famous pop stars including Elton John, Robbie Williams and the BeeGees. They also put together Sir Bernard’s Stately Homes and appeared in the Fat Les video for Vindaloo.
However it was Little Britain which would make Walliams a household name. The show which saw him dressed as a ’rubbish transvestite’ and playing a camp ministerial aide would not only put Walliams on the comedy map but on the tabloid one too. Despite being spotted with several sexy blondes, among them Abi Titmuss, Walliams’ sexuality is regularly questioned by the red tops.
December 2007