Book could net him £1m

David Walliams has written his memoirs, which could net him up to £1million.

Publishers are currently engaged in a bidding war for the title, with trade magazine The Bookseller reporting that offers opened at a ‘high six-figure label’.

The Little Britain star is already a successful children’s author, with his debut The Boy In The Dress winning a People’s Book Prize last year.

The new autobiography – which does not yet have a title – is expected to cover his years before he got famous.

Waterstone's spokesman Jon Howells says it could be a bestseller, adding: ‘He's proven to be a great writer with his children's books and he's been really committed to publicity on their publication.’

Meanwhile, Walliams’s latest comedy Come Fly With Me has been pulled by some TV channels in Australia for fear it would cause offence.

The series, which also stars Matt Lucas, is due to start on Channel Nine at 8pm on Monday, but two of the rural stations that make up the network – NBN and WIN – have unexpectedly dropped it from their schedules.

Kellie Hampton, head of programming for the NBN network said she was waiting for feedback from city audiences before deciding whether it was suitable for her viewers. She said: ‘The regional TV audience is different.’

The show was the highest-rating new comedy programme of last year in the UK, with a second series in the pipeline.

Published: 15 May 2011