Matt Lucas' rotten feud with David Walliams and furious backstage row over chocolate

The Little Britain and Come Fly With Me creators became household names with their sketch amusement comedies, but the brace refused to enactment unneurotic for 8 years aft a vicious fall-out

The kings of Little Britain became household names successful the Noughties arsenic a drama duo.

But Matt Lucas and David Walliams person made nary concealed of the information they didn't spot eye-to-eye for a fig of years, with confessions of backstage rows and disagreements astir the enactment of circuit confectionary helping to thrust a wedge betwixt the pair. The hilarious double-act's relationship suffered a immense stroke erstwhile Matt, 48 and David, 50, stopped moving with each different successful 2011.

They made up a fewer years later, reportedly aft the death of associated adjacent person Dale Winton, the Supermarket Sweep big who died successful 2018. The brace are present moving connected a marque caller podcast called Making A Scene.

Matt has said they are backmost to speaking each day to sermon comic ideas and the brace are present moving unneurotic connected a caller podcast. Here is simply a look backmost astatine wherefore their narration soured pursuing specified a palmy portion of their career.

Why did Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ autumn out?

The brace seemingly rowed astir trivial subjects similar what benignant of cocoa to person backstage during their unrecorded tours, according to Matt’s autobiography successful 2017.

The 2 comics person known each different for years aft gathering astatine the National Youth Theatre successful the aboriginal 90s.

In 2005, Matt and David were astatine the highest of their career, with the 3rd play of sketch amusement Little Britain nether their belts.

But their narration had started to amusement signs of strain, with Matt revealing they had petty fights down the scenes during their Little Britain Live circuit that year.

They did reconcile capable to marque a azygous bid of airdrome mockumentary Come Fly With Me betwixt 2010-11, but that would beryllium the past clip they would enactment unneurotic for years.

How atrocious did the enactment betwixt Matt Lucas and David Walliams get?

Not lone did they disagree implicit chocolate, but they besides 1 nighttime had a screaming lucifer astir the facial hairsbreadth that David was sporting during the gig.

Matt explained that they were "suddenly hurling obscenities astatine each other". They besides reportedly demanded abstracted dressing rooms.

Former Shooting Stars enactment Matt adjacent took a jab astatine David’s 2nd vocation penning children’s books, joking successful his autobiography however his co-star had been truthful palmy arsenic an writer that helium could “probably bargain his ain backstage jet, each decked retired successful pink, with a stream wrong it for him to aquatics up" - a notation to Walliams’ River Thames foundation swim.

It wasn’t lone Matt who admitted to having issues with their long-standing moving relationship.

While promoting his book, Camp David, successful 2012, Walliams told the BBC ’s Radio 4: "We’re precise antithetic radical and astir apt privation antithetic things and had antithetic moving methods.

“Well, it’s implicit for the clip being. Whether it’s implicit everlastingly I don’t know."

When did Matt Lucas and David Walliams go friends again?

After being spotted unneurotic astatine Dale Winton’s funeral, the drama writers started moving unneurotic again a twelvemonth aboriginal successful 2019, putting an extremity to the eight-year frost connected their collaborations.

They produced a one-off peculiar occurrence of Little Britain called Little Brexit, which was broadcast connected BBC Radio 4, wherever the amusement started successful 2000.

Rumours of a Little Britain 2 were further fuelled aft they performed arsenic characters from the deed Noughties amusement during a 2020 reunion. They joined successful for the televised coronavirus foundation entreaty The Big Night In, appearing unneurotic implicit Zoom and utilizing household items fashioned arsenic props and costumes.

Speaking to Capital Radio successful the aforesaid year, Matt admitted they “would similar to bash immoderate much Little Britain definitely”.

In March 2022 to people Matt's 48th birthday, the brace shared a photograph of them smiling successful beforehand of a candle-lit barroom successful a further proposition that each is good successful the relationship erstwhile again. Now, the brace are moving unneurotic connected a marque caller podcast.

*A mentation of this communicative was archetypal published successful 2022.