Laura Brand, would you stand by your man? Trigger rape.

@TofuTuesday

no I don’t want to give them extra views!

They both seem abhorrent weirdos no wish to watch them further. Would be gutted if my sister turned out like this - a peculiar handmaiden to a hideous man. Feel sorry for her family and of course their kids.

Imagine having to have them over for Christmas!

I just wouldn’t. I would totally distance myself from my sister if she behaved like that. Ewww

He did. Katy P and he divorced her. Suspect she lacked Laura’s deference

@Pedant61

not in this case. Or most cases of this nature. We have little faith in juries to deliver justice when it’s his word against hers.

The system is fundamentally flawed

savile was never even charged but we don’t think he’s innocent do we?

If Laura was my sister, i would be concerned for her wellbeing and safety but on balance, I would have to cut her out. No way would her husband be welcome in my home

There's only room for one egocentric narcissist in that marriage. He used to have a sidekick (forget his name) but part of the thing on his radio show was that he'd mention sometimes having a threesome with him and some random woman. Sidekick was very much the lesser of the 2 in that pairing (if it could be deemed a friendship) and his role was to laugh along as the admiring acolyte.

He later ended up doing his own Dad podcast type thing. He has a daughter now also only a few years off the age of one of the girls who was in the Dispatches documentary on Brand

Honestly I wouldn’t have married someone with the sexual history and reputation of Brand for a few reasons. Firstly I prefer to date (and now be married to) someone with a similar sexual history to myself - and I’m definitely no Russell Brand. Secondly, he doesn’t shut the fuck up and that would just drive me mad.

I do feel sorry for her. She has three kids with him, and he must be somewhat charming. I’ve read accounts from people who have met him and I know a few people who met him and they often say he’s got a weird charm to him. I’m not going to sit here and say she’s a mug, because she obviously saw something in him and loves him very much.

If that was my husband, with all that evidence against him I would probably have an absolute breakdown and snap and end up in a padded room.

I am a strong believer in marriage, so assuming they have a good marriage, yesI think she should stand by him regardless of his past behaviour. Besides, she knew what was marrying. I may bewaring, but I think rescuing him from a dark oblivion of drug and sex addiction was her project. It was obvious when he was on the BBC that he was off the rails and being hyped upper for viewing figures when he should have been in rehab, so I blame the BBC as much as Blame him for the bad experiences women around him had while he was working there. The BBC has a long and sordid track record of protecting the perpetrators of sex crimes. It is about time it faced real consequences.

BBC has a terrible terrible track record. Hopefully things have changed

But Brand was on C4 for years. And MTV