Noel Fielding..

[CurlewKate]

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

Good point

I’ve always had a suspicion he would be next on the #metoo list.

Nothing to do with what he looks like. He just gives off old lech.

I doesn't mean they have a rapist past to hide.

It does mean that they, like so many men, have seen rape as a joke, one of those things, 'he said she said', getting carried away or going a bit far, a misunderstanding etc.

Or simply that deep in their hearts they know that - like all men - they have been the beneficiaries of a culture of sexual and other violence towards women which by necessity and intent puts limits on women's agency and thereby maintains the patriarchal status quo, making life infinitely nicer for them.

You didn't think there would be more to it than a daft joke about similar sounding names?

RB and NF wouldn't have been as famous as they were if people hadn't watched what they they were making .

I absolutely agree that those in positions of power turned a blind eye and should be accoutable for that but a lot of the public liked both of them.

It's a bit disingenuous to say that those commissioning the shows bear responsibility and not also to acknowledge that many ordinary people thought the humour was acceptable.

Yes times were different and I'm not saying that people who watched his shows knew RB was a rapist but I think some people may find it uncomfortable now to admit that they were quite happy to go to shows and watch TV programmes with both of these men in them.

I hadn't heard about the Lily Allen thing before but even at the time would have found jokes about rape unacceptable.

This sharing of pornography between older and younger generations of men in the same family is very common.

It's a way of inducting them into the brotherhood of misogyny.

There's also something deeply homo-incestuous about it. Homo-eroticism is a massive part of the shared culture of sex/pornography that bonds men together against women - cf The Greeks fucking boys.

Noel fielding gives me the ick. He always looks ridiculous on bake off and is painfully unfunny. Comedian my arse, Alison is so naturally funny and bubbly compared to his tired old schtick.

Well that settles it then.
Thank god you aren’t a Judge. And I hope to god you never go on a jury.

He’s silent i suspect because he is struggling to believe his former friend could do this. Noel Fielding like many people when he was young did a few questionable things (dating pixie geldolf when she was 16, though that is legal), non pc jokes etc. but like most people did settle down, rb is different. I suspect Jonathan ross also will be silent too, they were friends. Anyone can find out a friend or acquaintance in the past did something really bad, it’s happened to me, it doesn’t me you have done anything bad yourself.

How would he know? Brand has been convicted of raping a person, and I doubt he went to Noel after it happened ‘you know that person I slept with last night, well I anally raped her!’ So unless Noel was there in the room, I guess he did not know.

Thank God you never have to employ your critical thinking skills at work (or I assume you don’t), I didn’t say NF should go on trial for anything 🤷‍♀️

Certainly silent / absent as a character witness at his trial.

BIrds of a feather and all that.

He knew exactly how Brand was behaving and yet stayed friends.

Must have known? So you think he was present in the room watching on when RB was raping women? What evidence have you got to support that?

He will have known that RB was promiscuous, as did everyone, but this notion that anyone close to RB must have known he was a rapist is absurd, dangerous, and just smacks of a witch hunt.

That injunction story is horrendous, why isn’t there more publicity over this in light of the RB trial and now his conviction?!

A lot of people on these threads and Mumsnet created the idea that he was a beloved natiohal treasure. Let's not all pretend like we knew he was a wrongun and never liked him.

I am here long enough to remember the webcam chats about his favourite biscuit and the many many MNers who fawned all over him and laughed about how he was a womanising shagger but he got away with it cos he was so funny and cheeky and he is top of their list if they were to shag a celebrity.

All those videos of his humour from that time period were of the time. The tide turned on that kind of humour as it should bit let's not pretend that it was so obvious and dangerous and no one was laughing and were turning a blind eye, cos that is not true at all.

I never said you did. I’m commenting on your (lack off) judgment. I’m literally employing my critical thinking skills in my reply about how idiotic yours was by saying how much they look similar. As if that has any bearing on anything at all.

I mean they both look like they could do with a good wash 😅 I’ve never understood the attraction to either of them

They both had hideous hair. RBs looked like a cheap wig I had that the cat had been sleeping on.

I actually quite like NF but part of me wouldn’t be surprised if stories about him surfaced in future.

And was then brushed with a toffee apple

None of us know exactly what did or didn’t happen in front of NF. But we do know a LOT of his offending happened in a work context and even in front of other people.

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-11-06/producer-accused-of-laughing-during-brand-assault-asked-to-step-back-from-role

I confess until recently I thought they were the same person!

Eh, 🤑

Yes funny that.