Yo say Russell Brand can’t stoop much lower.

I’m not referring specifically to RB here, but do you really believe that it’s possible for a sex offender to change? I mean, I can understand that a thief could change if their circumstances changed. Or a violent thug could change as they got older, drank less and went out less. But if you’ve got it in you to do that to a person, does that ever leave you? I’m not convinced it does.

I believe you. I’m so sorry. I hope he gets everything he deserves.

There are so many things to hate about rape trials, aren’t there? I hate that rape is so difficult to get a conviction for that it’s practically legal. I hate that victims of famous rapists are always accused of reporting it for the fame and/or the money. I hate that a ‘Not Guilty’ verdict is interpreted as ‘innocent’ and the victim is made out to be a liar simply because it was impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

@EnhancedVampireEyeballs and everyone else who has gone through similar. 💐 You are warriors.

Highly unlikely, he has a PR team advising him on how to play this. Like the other predators who use religion or a fake crisis as a distraction to prying eyes.

He hasn't really changed for the good. It's all a money-making grift.

I thought that was odd - arriving with his shirt open.
You’d think someone would advise him that it looks disrespectful to the court. 🤔Or perhaps they did and this was his response.

He's openly admitted his bad past. I do believe that he's changed for the good, but he still committed crimes that need to be atoned.

He does things like that deliberately , I'm sure he thinks it's clever , he's very strange .

Yes, innocent until proven guilty etc etc, but it’s plainly concrete this guy is a wrong’un on some counts.

Wasn't he claiming last month to have found God and that he is no longer the person he was? He comes across as a total narc and manipulator.

There are too many women coming forward. I saw the documentary and remember the account of the one who was raped in LA. It sounded brutal.

People seem to be confusing manipulation with intelligence in his camp. He is trying and often succeeding to win favour with the lowest intellectual level. The men that have failed in life be it socially, financially or emotionally and are desperate to group together to blame anyone but themselves for there failures. He always had a touch of the emperor’s new clothes or the 15 year old obnoxious precocious intellectual for me. When I think about narcs I have a tinge a 1% of sympathy for them as it stems from trauma/parenting etc but I have nothing for him at all.

Never liked him
Liked him even less after the Andrew Sachs phone call with Jonathan Ross
(who should have been sacked for it ).

I must have missed that. Why on earth would Bear Grylls have baptised him?!

There is too much of the ‘lynch mob’ mentality now and he is innocent until proven guilty.

Yes, in the Thames 🤮 perhaps that explains the pollution in the water now it probably seeps out of him. He’s like the child catcher possessed by a pirate who reads out the contents of a Victorian thesaurus on a loop .

He is yuk

Good job there's going to be an actual trial then.

Investigative journalism around wealthy, powerful, famous men abusing their status to sexually exploit women is absoultely necessary. History tells us these men use their money and influence to silence their victims and evade justice, and they are enabled by corporations (including the BBC, which we pay for) to do so. I'd love to live in a world where the Police and the Courts could be trusted to get justice for rape victims but that's not the world we live in so it's a good thing that a joint investigation by The Times and Channel 4's Dispatches has exposed this scumbag for who he is.

Oh come on. The whole Andrew Sachs thing was a burning red flag bonanza.

His absolute disrespect for anyone and anything symbolised in his ridiculous outfit. What a twat.

THAT outfit to court on a criminal charge? Pillock.

I have no doubt we'll see him sink even lower.🤮

I always found him sleazy, he was someone I didn't want to like but did. I loved listening to him. I'm not surprised about the revelations, but I wanted to be wrong.

I hate trial by media.