Noel Fielding..

[CurlewKate]

… is very silent about Russell Brand, isn’t he?

I said EXACTLY the same to DH last night.

He was… very close to him…
and they look very similar.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/russell-brand-rapist-channel-4-clip-lily-allen-b3080288.html

Yup !

They don’t look similar! Even slightly. Not that that would have anything to do with it if they did.

He also disappeared from view a while back suddenly so I wondered what happened.

As in they both sought to emulate the same kind of 2000s ‘look’ - guyliner, messed up hair, same sort of clothing, same style of ‘humour’ …

Oh OK, dress similar. I thought I was going mad.

There have been long standing rumours that he dated Pixie Geldof when she was 16 and he 33. Now, the tabloids will jump on two people standing next to each other and make the conclusion that they are dating, but even if it was just platonic, most 33 year old men would go 'hmm, bit creepy if me and my mates hang around with a 16 year old'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-35353299

I'm game if Russell is. I think a Goth Detectives tour could be fun. A sort of Agatha Christie 'who done it'.
"Someone would get murdered (not for real) and then we would look for the murderer. I'd hunt for clues while Russell seduced the first four rows of the venue (he's trying to cut down)."

That clip is horrible! And the audience laughing?! I mean, what the actual fuck!

Have you not seen that clip of Bob Geldoph calling Brand a cunt to his face? Great stuff.

I really liked Noel in his Mighty Boosh days, but the trajectory he chose after was a bit disappointing. He did date a lot after he split up from his long term GF/ before he married his wife, and he had this really embarrassing thing for really fawning over children of famous people (hence Pixie Geldof).

I really hope he says something. Being friends with Brand is really, really bad life choice.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfZ0apMtihr/?mdxt=MW9mdmg3ZXoyZTQ4Zg==

So is his good friend Jonathan Ross

This is such an insult to NF who, in his younger days, was super cute.

I don't want to be "one of those people" but I've always been creeped out by him. I listened to the Mighty Boosh from the very first episode on the radio and it was disturbing to me. However, I'm an easily distubed person.

The mangina stuff in particular I hated, but I didn't mind the other chap, Julian Barratt.

Who knows, I seem to be the only person I know who feels that way...

I think there’s a reason he’s not saying something.

If he was entirely comfortable he didn’t witness/participate in anything, why not put out a statement to this effect, especially now the conviction has happened..?

I also feel the same about Jonathan Ross, I'll never forget some of the really gross sexual stuff he used to say to his female interviwees.

Mind you I also don't like the national treasures Stephen Fry and Graham Norton for things they've said about women, so perhaps I'm overreacting.

What do you want him to do though? Release a statement? Go on Piers Morgan? Wouldn’t that potentially be more incriminating?

I have always found NF really creepy.

Dh and I were literally saying this yesterday.

He had an epic tantrum and stropped off set round the time Russell was first charged......
https://deadline.com/2025/01/how-wheels-came-off-apple-tv-noel-fielding-the-completely-made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin-1236258564/

Release a statement, yes. As somebody who was a close friend and coworker, who worked alongside him for a number of years, it’s the least he can do surely? Sometimes I think the only reason people avoid doing it is to possibly avoid perjuring themselves at a later date 🤷‍♀️

Well he has moved in murky circles to be sure.

Who knows.

I can’t bear him. He’s too old for that overgrown toddler look he sports on Bake Off and no female presenter would be allowed on TV with grubby looking hair and scruffy jumpers on a cooking programme.

I distrust men in those skin tight low slung trousers, trademark of RB and still worn by NF - ugh.

All prejudice obviously.

But dissociate yourself Noel!

Known as a close friend of RB, J Ross, worked with Matt Lucas and that nasty little network…

Changing his image would help, IMO, and be less bleugh near all those wholesome cakes.

Fielding then replies: "How dare you? We're not rapists," with Carr asking him why he's wearing a cape on the show if he's not a rapist. "It's a Jack the Ripper cape. He wasn't a rapist, he was just–" Fielding says, as Russell Brand adds: "A serial murderer. There is no direct corollary between capes and rape. It's just a rhyme. Leave him alone." Brand continues: "What if, horror of horrors, he ain't even done a rape. You could ruin his reputation. Have you done a rape?" Fielding replies: "Well, if I have, I'd be leaving the scene of the crime like this," before placing his cape up to his face like Dracula.

I vividly remember watching that (although I hadn't realised it was so far back as 07) and feeling disturbed at the time. There are some things that should be off the table to joke about IMO, and rape is one of them.