Russell Brand : Open Secret

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New on today on Netflix. They must have been waiting until they could legally release it.
its quite shocking. This culture of everybody knowing but being scared to speak out really must stop.
I hope a lot of celebrities are getting really worried now.

Thanks I'll stick it on later

Watching it now. Never realised how big he made it in America, no idea why I didn’t realise and no idea why he was so successful over there. The whole programme is very yucky 🤢

I always thought he was sleazy but he was shockingly open about it on the clips they show.

Having watched more of it - with the programme speaking to more comedians, I think this is a better programme than the Dispatches programme about him

I’ve just watched it. Absolutely horrific. I do want to big up Nish Kumar, who I have always liked since The Mash Report days. I saw him live at a small comedy gig a year or two ago when he called him out, and said that lots of people were covering up. He only named one. I’m not going to say, but Jesus Christ it might not surprise you hahahahaha.

Who

Go on, give us initials at least.

I have. JC

Not clary?! or Carr I guess?

@Upwiththisiwillnotput

Never heard a thing about Clary.

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I’m assuming the latter. I hope I am wrong. I understand people not feeling able to come forward but to actually condone it and hide it? Especially when they are in a position to do something about it.

I know someone who worked for him very closely and said he was lovely so I’m not sure about this one.

Jimmy Carr made that joke about russell brand through the week, that would be some balls if he was guilty of something similar.

Can think of someone else with those initials who's been very successful in America. Could really do with OP coming back to give more of a signpost @user1486915549

Katherine Ryan is good friends with him so hopefully he’s not another one.

Me ? I’ve no idea who else is involved.
Just watching it unfold like the rest of you.

Only other JC I can think of was on a Late Late Show

James Corden

I didn't think OP said the JC was guilty of anything but that he knew about Brand and covered it up.

Very interesting to hear from ex girlfriends

RB has issued a statement.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/14/noel-fielding-horrified-deeply-disturbed-russell-brand-crimes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

When we were looking for some standup comedy last Sunday evening they still had his on Netflix. I'm not in the UK but I was still surprised as the verdict was given on Friday, wasn't it? Actually AI tells me it's still on the Netflix library but hidden from searches.

I do wonder how they deal with these situations on streaming services. I enjoyed Death on the Nile on Disney+ but I wonder if they'll pull it, and any other films he's been in will now disappear. I certainly wouldn't watch it again.

Thanks for the heads up OP, I'll give it a watch later today.

I never found his type of humour remotely funny, and he mostly passed me by as I didn't watch Big Brother or anything of that ilk. I also never realised how far he had got in America. I'm surprised he was ever as popular as he was here though.

None of this is a surprise really, and I just think it is such a tragedy that he was enabled by those who worked near him, or that they didn't feel that they could do much about it without risking their own livelihood.

I wonder who will be next, there are bound to be more.

Shit, I love that version of DotN, he was really good in it too.