Tag: David Walliams
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David Walliams axed by his publisher over inappropriate behaviour with young women
According to a report by The Telegraph, David Walliams has been axed by his publisher, Harper Collins UK over accusations of inappropriate behaviour with young women. Besides from being known for his comedy shows, David Walliams is one of Britain’s most popular children’s authors. In Malta, David Walliams was at the centre of a scandal…
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David Walliams says sleeping with Johann Grech will enable you to make a film in Malta
The actor David Walliams, who is being paid at least €300,000 every time he comes to Malta to recite a couple of lines at publicly-funded events by the Film Commission, said during the Film Festival that he slept with Film Commissioner Johann Grech because it is the best way to get everything you need to…
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Only broke and washed-up actors would do propaganda for a criminal government
We have a new rising trend in Malta of foreign artists and actors getting paid by the Maltese government to conduct propaganda clips for the government and its apparatchiks and to serve as personal entertainers for our ministers and government executives. Two particular actors, David Walliams and Russell Crowe have been paraded by the Labour…
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No, it didn’t
Since there is some press interest in the story of the Malta Film Awards and its expenditure on the ceremony’s host, here are my views as a previous government culture executive. It’s not complicated really, and these sub-literate barbarians have no idea what they are doing, except for using the culture industries as their private…
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What film awards? You have been scammed.
The point of an award ceremony is to literally give an award to a selected category of people and celebrate their work. During the National Book Prize, I used to give out a 4000 cheque to every winner and then proceed to spend around another 1,000 marketing the winning book, apart from putting the book…