YouTube has suspended adverts on movies by Russell Brand after the comic was accused of rape and sexual assault.
The Google-owned firm mentioned it had suspended the monetisation of Mr Brand’s channel for “violating our Creator Responsibility policy”.
“If a creator’s off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community,” a spokesperson for YouTube mentioned.
Brand’s YouTube channels – the biggest of which has greater than six million subscribers – stay on the platform, however his movies not function adverts.
The comic, who discovered fame within the early 2000s on the stand-up circuit and as a presenter of exhibits together with Big Brother’s Big Mouth, has lately switched to wellness teaching and making YouTube movies.
It comes after 4 girls made sexual abuse allegations towards the star between 2006 and 2013 as a part of an investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
Brand, 48, denies any allegations towards him. He claimed in a video posted on-line on Friday night time that every one his relationships have been “consensual”.
The comic had been as a consequence of carry out on the Theatre Royal in Windsor on Tuesday – with extra dates scheduled in Wolverhampton and Plymouth later this month.
But the tour promoters mentioned in an announcement on Monday: “We are postponing these few remaining addiction charity fundraiser shows, we don’t like doing it – but we know you’ll understand.”
Since publication, The Times mentioned it had been contacted by “several women” with additional claims about Brand, however mentioned their allegations haven’t but been investigated and “will now be rigorously checked”.
The Metropolitan Police has mentioned on Monday it had acquired an allegation of sexual assault towards Brand courting again to 2003, following the publication of the claims towards the comic.
On Monday considered one of his accusers claimed a BBC automotive took her from faculty to the star’s home when she was 16 years previous.
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‘BBC automotive took me to Russell Brand’s home’
“Alice” advised BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour the alleged abusive relationship left her feeling “cheap and dirtied”.
She went on to say Brand’s denial of the accusations was “insulting”, including: “It’s laughable that he would even imply that this is some kind of mainstream media conspiracy. He’s not outside the mainstream.”
Downing Street has additionally described the allegations towards Brand as “very serious and concerning”
Channel 4 and TV manufacturing agency Banijay UK confirmed over the weekend they’d launched investigations, whereas the BBC mentioned it was “urgently looking into the issues raised”.
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The charity Trevi Women, which helps moms recovering from drug habit, additionally introduced on Saturday it was reducing ties with Brand.
But the comic has acquired backing from a number of high-profile figures, together with tech billionaire Elon Musk.
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He wrote on X, previously Twitter, on Sunday: “I support Russell Brand. That man is not evil.”
Meanwhile, Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter mentioned she “doesn’t see Russell Brand as a rapist” from her “own experience”.
Georgina Baillie, who had a relationship with Brand within the 2000s, added that ladies’s tales of sexual abuse ought to at all times be believed and brought severely.
Baillie, 38, was on the centre of the so-called “Sachsgate” scandal in 2008, which noticed Brand and TV presenter Jonathan Ross go away lewd messages about her on her Fawlty Towers star grandfather’s answering machine.
Discussing her relationship with Brand on TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, she mentioned: “He was always very nice to me. It was always clear what the parameters were and that was mutually agreed upon and never did anything untoward happen – apart from that [the Sachsgate tapes].
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“I was struggling with addiction for about 10- 15 years and I was finding it very hard to get clean and sober. So one of my mutual friends between me and Russell called him up and said, ‘Georgie needs some help’, and so he sent me to rehab.
“And so I used to be bodily separated from my drug of alternative and I acquired some remedy and I feel that had a giant half to play in my restoration journey.”
Going on to discuss the allegations, she said: “I’m not saying they’re lies as a result of you already know, it was a very long time in the past. We all… I feel they need to be believed and get some assist.”
Asked if she was presuming Brand was guilty, she added: “I, from my very own private expertise, don’t see Russell as a rapist. However, a whole lot of the proof could be very compelling, so one has to maintain an open thoughts.”
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