Overview
- Walliams told New Zealand’s Mike Hosking Radio Breakfast Show he will take his 12-year-old son to the Maldives before Christmas for scuba diving.
- He said he will not have his son on Christmas Day this year, reflecting a co‑parenting arrangement with ex‑wife Lara Stone in which holidays are shared.
- His new book, Santa & Son, draws on feelings around not having a child for Christmas and focuses on a father–son bond within a separated family.
- He described Christmas as a time when melancholy can surface and recalled dreading his first Christmas after his father's death in 2008.
- Walliams reiterated his preference to keep his son out of the spotlight, while separate reports of industry distancing rely on unnamed sources.