Russell Brand 🤢🤮

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🤢 🤢 Russell Brand. I never liked him anyway, Now he's on trail. Denies all charges of course.

I always remember the way her treated Lauren Harries and it being in the papers. He denied sleeping with her but I believe Lauren on this.

Yes it's the numbers which sway it for me. I think these 6 women are a different 6 women to the 5 who accused him of the same in the Dispatches documentary as most of those accusations took place in America. So actually 11 women?

Hopefully I will be proven wrong about his status going in his favour and the numbers of women will convince the jury? Guess there have been other famous men found guilty and imprisoned.

It makes me think of the stories of Northern Ireland's Jeffrey Donaldson sitting in prison reading his bible - after his convictions for sexual crimes.

Increasingly I see a self-pronounced 'godly man' and think 'Thank you wolf for removing that fleecey costume'.

This.

It's like AMW, the artist formerly known as Prince. He (or rather his mummy) paid £10,000,000 to £12,000,000 to a woman who he'd 'never met'. Never. Not once :)

I'll believe the women all day.

Wasn’t Mr Claypole the straight character who wasn’t a ghost - wore a trilby

Ched Evans. And yes, found not guilty at retrial.

I'm looking it up now. You could be right ...

ETA Google says he was the jester

Yes and the queen would be the first person to give a stiff upper lip to blackmailers…they’ll come back for more or others will accuse

she must have thought there was something to be silenced

Let me know!

I can’t help but think Clapole must be a euphemism for the BBC! 😂😂

Totally creepy and yuk. I can't understand why anyone would like him

The Crown Prosecution Service makes clear that contempt requires a substantial risk of serious prejudice, not simply an opinion that somebody might find objectionable. I don't think the jury are going to say some random person on MN said they think he did it so I'm going to find him guilty.

Ultimately they will hear the evidence and be directed by the judge to weigh it up and not be influenced by anything they may have seen or heard outside of court. The judge will know that most juries in such a case will see/hear random stuff. I'm sure they will take their legal duties seriously.

I always found him and his thesaurus monologues revolting.
Anyone remember there used to be an MNer who was always popping up and boasting that she’d slept with him? She’s keeping a pretty low profile now!

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If he truly has found God and he committed these crimes, you would think that his conscience would be telling him to plead guilty, as that would be the right thing to do.

Thank you!

ridiculous suggestion by the poster

I remember that, and also someone else saying he'd tried it on big time with her and she had to fend him off....and he was dirty. Maybe it was the cleaner/skid mark woman!

Exactly

He's probably a wrong 'un but I was a bit ?! at "Don't be a spoilsport" being led with as evidence of dastardly behaviour.

It’s hard to imagine it now but he was hugely popular. His schtick was being like a loquacious Pirates of the Caribbean extra and so the idea that was was having endless sex (being as he was already one kind of addict) always seemed entirely likely. Given his massive popularity what has been surprising is that it wasn’t always consensual and that he forced himself on his victims when they clearly didn’t want it. I’m not surprised by the allegations in the sense that nothing a man does ever surprises me anymore but I didn’t mind him back in the day and before this was all known.

I have two main memories of him in his ‘heyday’ that always come to mind when I think of him.

He’s the man who coined the term Pound Shop Enoch Powell about Farage on an episode of QT where RB was genuinely very good.

He wrote a really lovely tribute to Amy Winehouse after she died. It’s honest and raw and, re-reading it now, also says a lot about him as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jul/24/russell-brand-amy-winehouse-woman?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It’s clear that at some point, something whether his addictions, penchant for excess, fame or the fact that he’s a total arsehole turned him into a sexual predator. Let’s hope the trial brings some finality and justice for the victims.

Do we think this is how he’s explained it to his wife?

I had lots sex as an addict and people got the wrong idea but I’m cleansed now..

Better safe than sorry though. Commenting on SM on whether a person is guilty or innocent when a trial is underway is ill advised IMHO.

It's not that rare

@WeirdyBeardyMarrowBabyLady no we all know how popular he was..the moments darling and done to death

as said two things can be true at the same time and narcissist are charming

I did use to find him amusing and entertaining many years ago, someone bought me his first book and it was ok and then they got me his follow up. I got as far as his account of when he first met Katy Perry and it all just felt so arrogant and more than a bit off. Stopped liking him and when he did all the mad Covid stuff i started to despise him. Wasn't in any way surprised when Channel 4 did the expose on his vile ways. Oh and i gave both books to a charity shop years before the scandal broke, just didn't want them in the house.

Deny, deny, deny... It's the church's way...

Just ask the last archbishop of Canterbury, Justin welby. He was all high and mighty until the evidence became public that he covered up child sexual abuse in the church... Not so haughty today I see... Kind of fell off his perch.

Religious types who commit crimes often feel god is on their side... It's from decades of being looked up to by vulnerable people... Not being scrutinised enough... Or at all. "Him??? Nooo... Not him.... How dare you accuse a man of the church!"

If the former Archbishop of Canterbury can sink as low as to protect a pervert from being outed, then people should see that a "religious person" means nothing any more. Nothing...