Jeremy Edwards has told how he was sexually humiliated by David Walliams when he appeared live on stage to perform a sketch for Comic Relief.
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The British actor recalled how the 'predatory' comedian pulled his pants down leaving his private parts exposed then performed a simulated sex act on him in front of an audience of 3,500 people including some of the biggest names in showbusiness.
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The degrading ordeal was captured on a special release DVD which is still available to buy on the internet.
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Jeremy – who was once engaged to S Club 7 pop star Rachel Stevens – told how he had suffered years of torment after the incident even though he was the innocent victim.
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Jeremy, 55, told how he had agreed to take part in a light-hearted Little Britain sketch alongside Walliams and comedian David Baddiel at the Hammersmith Apollo in London in November 2006.
But he alleges he was duped by Walliams claiming the star – who is now mired in a scandal of allegations of grooming girls as young as 15 and harassing women in the workplace – launched into the premeditated assault.
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Jeremy Edwards has spoken for the first time about the years of shame he suffered after appearing in the notorious hide the sausage sketch with the predatory comic David Walliams
Edwards, who rose to fame in the Channel Four soap Hollyoaks, says what happened to him was 'not OK' - and says that he felt it was a premeditated assault on him by Walliams
Walliams, Edwards said, tickled him so that he lifted his arms and then took the opportunity to pull down his pants.
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When the shocked actor bent over to pull them up, Walliams then rugby tackled him to the floor and then climbed on top of him to mount him in the packed theatre
The actor is still angry with Walliams today, two decades on, for not warning him beforehand what was going to happen.
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He says the unpleasant incident has haunted him for years
Speaking exclusively about it for the first time to the Daily Mail, he said: 'It simply was abuse.
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I did not agree to it.
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'You just can't do that to people.
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Having your trousers pulled down and you're stood there in your boxer shorts is one thing.
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Having your penis exposed is something very different.
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I didn't know that was going to happen.
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I'm angry because why did they think that would be OK with me?
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'If they had said to me 'By the way they are going to expose you in front of everybody would you agree?'.
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'What we are talking about here is consent and I didn't consent to it.
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In reality I went down, flip bang.
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'If I had known I was going to have my genitals exposed in front of all those people then put on a DVD which has sold millions of copies and then for it for now to be on the internet for the rest of my life I wouldn't have done it for a million years.
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He knew exactly what he was going to do and had no qualms doing it to me.
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I wish it had never happened.
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It was supposed to be a bit of fun and instead it's been something that has haunted me for years.
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Insisting he had been deceived by Walliams, also 55, he added: 'I've never had an apology.'
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Jeremy told how he had always believed that what had happened at the event had been an accident and that Walliams hadn't meant to go as far as he had done to raise a laugh.
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It was years later that he was shown videos of the comedian carrying out the same stunt when other innocent members of the public were also exposed.
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He said: 'I never knew it was something that was done with intent.
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It's only recently that I have seen footage of previous shows that I realised that was always the plan.
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It wasn't an accident that my pants got pulled down.
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'They deliberately got me there to do that.
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There's videos of him doing it to other men but worse than me - grabbing them by the ankles and spinning them round for the audience after taking their pants down.
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'I feel stupid that I felt I couldn't say anything.
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I can only imagine that for members of the public that must be magnified ten fold.'
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The sketch ended up featuring as a highlight in the Comic Relief Does Little Britain Live DVD which was released in 2007.
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Alongside Walliams and his comedy partner Matt Lucas the video features a glittering array of celebrities including Jonathan Ross, Dawn French, Russell Brand and Peter Kay.
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Jeremy – who was known for his boyish good looks – told how he had agreed to take part in the event at short notice after Duncan James from the boy band Blue had dropped out at the last minute.
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Father-of-two Jeremy – who rose to fame in Channel Four soap opera Hollyoaks and also had a starring role in medical drama Holby City – had turned up at the event with wife Lydia and a friend.
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In the sketch, Walliams performed as the character Des Kay, a predatory gay former children's entertainer and TV presenter.
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Footage of the incident that has gone viral shows Walliams' character playing a game of 'hide the sausage' before he lunges at Jeremy pulling down both his jeans and underwear and exposing his private parts.
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Describing the events that unfolded in his own words Jeremy said: 'I was contacted literally on the day of the show because Duncan from Blue had pulled out at the last minute.
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He was supposed to be doing it with David Baddiel.
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Edwards said that afterwards he just had to get away and went to the toilets to be alone and process what happened.
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