Russell Brand has appeared stay on stage in London hours after being publicly accused of rape and sexual assault.
The comic is performing a present on the Troubabour Wembley Park theatre, which started simply after 8pm on Saturday – roughly an hour after its scheduled begin time, the PA information company reported.
A video of him strolling on stage, printed by The Sun, reveals him smiling and telling crowds: “Thank you, thank you, I love you.”
It is considered one of his 4 remaining dates on his Russell Brand Bipolarisation stay present.
Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse in a Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation – allegations he denies.
Four girls have made allegations of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013 whereas he was on the peak of his fame, in keeping with the newspaper.
The Sunday Times reviews that others have made a variety of accusations about Brand‘s controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour.
In an in a single day video put out on YouTube, Brand denied “very serious criminal allegations” that he mentioned can be made in opposition to him by a newspaper and TV firm.
In the video, entitled “So, This is Happening”, the comic rejected the claims that he described as “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks”.
One accuser says she was solely 16
The years-long investigation by the 2 information shops focuses on the claims of 4 girls.
The first advised them she was 16 and nonetheless at college when she entered a relationship with Brand, having met him whereas she was out procuring in central London.
Another girl says she was raped by Brand at his Los Angeles residence.
The newspaper particulars claims she was handled at a rape disaster centre on the identical day and despatched him a textual content afterwards saying: “When a girl say[s] NO it means no.”
Brand selling his autobiography My Booky Wook in 2009. Pic: AP
A 3rd girl alleges he sexually assaulted her at his West Hollywood residence after the pair met at Alcoholics Anonymous.
And the fourth claims to have been bodily and emotionally abused by him.
A feminine comic, who has not been named, additionally remembers being “grabbed” and “bitten” within the face by Brand after they gigged collectively within the early 2000s.
She likens his alleged behaviour at events to the character within the 1987 movie Predator.
BBC and Channel 4 situation statements
After a profession working for each the BBC and Channel 4 resulted in him being compelled to resign from his Radio 2 present, he moved to the US to pursue a Hollywood movie profession.
There he had a two-year marriage with pop star Katy Perry earlier than returning to the UK the place he married and had two kids.
He and Laura Gallacher, sister of the presenter Kirsty Gallacher, predict a 3rd youngster.
Brand, now 48, is now finest recognized for his social media movies and podcast, which regularly see him endorsing conspiracy theories.
The BBC mentioned in an announcement it has “evolved its approach to how it manages talent and how it deals with complaints or issues raised”.
Channel 4 mentioned it will be asking the manufacturing firm who made the programmes “to investigate these allegations and report their findings properly and satisfactorily to us”.
Source: information.sky.com”
