So it is Russell Brand

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The biggest news story of the year is about someone who has already written books about all the stuff he has done. I will be surprised if Dispatched can say one thing I didn't already know.

Yes, I am guessing it's about multiple allegations, and the failure of the industry to protect people from their behaviour. I.e. the focus will be on the industry turning a blind eye to it/knowingly allowing it

You’d be sad to see someone face consequences for committing sexual assault/rape?

Yes, I am guessing it's about multiple allegations, and the failure of the industry to protect people from their behaviour. I.e. the focus will be on the industry turning a blind eye to it/knowingly allowing it

But I thought that we all knew that went on historically, but now 'times have changed'.

Maybe it is the Katherine Ryan thing too. I don't think anyone is that bothered about RB.

Surely sex addiction and potential to rape go hand in hand?

@MiddleParking I think I must be posting too early! Yes of course of there's rape that needs to be addressed. I missed the "serious allegations" bit.

I just saw the "promiscuous" heading Nd thought well he's fairly open he used to be! And the bit about going after him.

I'll stop here and have coffee!!

It can’t just be about him, surely? I mean maybe the allegations are so absolutely terrible, the issue deserves 90 minutes and The Sunday Times - but… really?

hardly story of the year!

He's the creepiest filthiest douchiest arse weasel that's ever had a platform.
😂i agree.

What Katherine Ryan thing?

Just been reading about him after all the hype. Agree with others, he looks so dirty and greasy, like he stinks. Which isn’t a crime I guess. Btw, is there any comedian that hasn’t got ADHD?

His narrative doesn't support the mainstream narrative so I'm in no way surprised that he's about the outed as whatever it is he'll be outed as.

These kinds of "scandals" are always either a massive misdirection or designed to discredit someone who isn't playing ball.

I'm not a RB follower but I can see his narrative and the following he has garnered could be a problem.

Long gone are the days when people who go against the mainstream media are just ridiculed (David Icke was reduced to a "crazy man who believes in lizard people") now they have to be taken down completely.

Im not a conspiracy theorist, I'm just someone who is increasingly concerned about the back door errosion of freedom of speech.

It’s been an open secret for years that RB is a notorious rapist - hope he goes to prison for a long timd (I mean, he prob won’t cos rape is essentially legal in the UK, but we can hope).

Is that it 🙄

I guess so.

I think his idea of consensual may need redefining. I can easily believe he assumed it was consensual at the time, and that he still does, and that he's wrong.

But I don't know anything.

All of the “leaks” refer to multiple comedians, male and female, so it won’t just be RB.

and this feeds nicely into his “me against the media; the media against the truth” narrative.

On the one hand he's always pitched himself about being very honest about himself.
But on the other hand he's also been very honest about being a complete narcissist who'll do anything to get attention from people.

The Prospect article Alan Rusbridger tweeted last night is very interesting. It lays out how much he's appeared to have moved to the right but a lot of what he does is give space to others to air their views. He doesn't commit to a lot of it. Hard to pin down how much of it he actually believes...

He has denied allegations from two papers and two shows so no I don’t think it’s him - I think papers will be trying to work it out and may have contacted multiple people they think it could be.

Lawyers, and there will be lawyers involved, would never recommend that a client of theirs uses social media to deny heinous allegations - it will be a full a proper written statement such as was the case with others who have recently had similar allegations against them.

He's the creepiest filthiest douchiest arse weasel that's ever had a platform. How he convinced any women to ever get near him is absolutely beyond me

And me.

I think it will be him and others. His wife’s Instagram has gone completely overnight and that’s very odd. There was talk of David Walliams too on Reddit, don’t know how true that is but wouldn’t surprise me.

Really?

But ‘what’ is him? I have read the report of his denial but no idea what it relates to?

the habit of pursuing salacious stories has surely got to stop. Our press, and clearly our nation’s thirst for the private lives of celebrities, has got way out of control. It must be terrifying to be in any way famous as you’d be waiting for the house of cards to come tumbling down.

The Katherine Ryan thing was that she accused a well known comedian of being a predator.

I think it was David Walliams but not sure. So maybe it’s about that too.

It could be a take down of the comedy world in general for sexual abuse, I guess

If this is true then he should be prosecuted by the courts not the media. And if dispatches have evidence of this then they should have handed it over to the police not turned it into a tv show which could risk a successful trial.

When is this dispatches on?