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18th September 2023
07:48am BST

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Channel 4 and production company Banijay UK have both launched investigations, and the BBC has said it is 'urgently looking into the issues raised.'
This prompted the BBC to release a statement:
"The documentary and associated reports contained serious allegations, spanning a number of years.
"Russell Brand worked on BBC radio programmes between 2006 and 2008, and we are urgently looking into the issues raised."
Comedian Daniel Sloss has also claimed in Channel 4's Dispatches documentary that female comics would warn each other about Russell Brand and his behaviour; it was something that was openly discussed within the industry, and there were 'many stories with varying degrees of severity' about Brand that came from a number of different people in the comedy industry.
Mr. Sloss claims the claims were often spoken about in public, with many comedians aware of his alleged abusive and coercive behaviour, adding that female comedians also spoke of him and warned each other in WhatsApp groups.
"For many, many years, women have been warning each other about Russell."
Yesterday, Irish comedian, Joanne McNally, took to her Instagram story to discuss the ongoing allegations against the British comedian and said rumours about Brand and these allegations were one of the first things she learned when she began working in the industry.
"I know that his defence of these accusations is that it's an attack on his character because he tells people things about mainstream media that mainstream media don't want us to know, so this is a plot to take him down because he's like exposing too much.
"Dude, these rumours are going around about him from long before he set up his 'truth channel' on YouTube, or whatever he's doing over there. It was one off the first things I heard when I got into the industry."
Elon Musk and Andrew Tate were among those appearing to offer Brand support, while Charity Trevi Women has cut ties with the comedian.
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