{"id":7117,"date":"2023-09-20T10:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/russell-brand-allegations-big-brother-boss-who-worked-with-comedian-at-channel-4-says-allegations-are-depressing-ents-arts-news\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T10:47:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T05:17:38","slug":"russell-brand-allegations-big-brother-boss-who-worked-with-comedian-at-channel-4-says-allegations-are-depressing-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/russell-brand-allegations-big-brother-boss-who-worked-with-comedian-at-channel-4-says-allegations-are-depressing-ents-arts-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand allegations: Big Brother boss who worked with comedian at Channel 4 says allegations are ‘depressing’ | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A TV executive who worked at a company that hired Russell Brand has described the allegations against the star as “depressing”.<\/p>\n

Phil Edgar-Jones was creative director of Remarkable Pictures, part of Endemol UK, and oversaw Big Brother during its Channel 4 years.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky News, he said: “There was never any sense that he’d done anything inappropriate that was brought to our attention certainly.<\/p>\n

“We knew he had a reputation for being promiscuous – and everybody knew that at the time – but that’s as far as it went, as far as we knew.”<\/p>\n

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He added that the allegations were “pretty depressing”.<\/p>\n

Mr Edgar-Jones, who is now director of Sky Arts and Entertainment, went on to stress that Remarkable Pictures would “100%” have acted if something was brought to its attention.<\/p>\n

Four women made allegations of rape and sexual assault<\/strong> against Brand in a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.<\/p>\n

Some of the claims date back to when he was presenting the spin-off programme Big Brother’s Big Mouth.<\/p>\n

The comedian and actor has said he “absolutely refutes<\/strong>” the allegations against him – and claimed he is being attacked by the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Mr Edgar-Jones said it was difficult to say whether Brand’s on-set behaviour at the time would have been regarded as unacceptable now.<\/p>\n

“It’s 20 years ago – I guess, maybe these things get called out a lot more now, for sure. But at the time, it didn’t seem like there was anything untoward that he was doing,” he added.<\/p>\n

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The executive went on to confirm that he is happy to take part in the reviews that are happening at the moment – with the BBC and Channel 4 launching investigations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 YouTube has suspended adverts on videos posted to Brand’s account<\/p>\n

\u2022 Channel 4 has taken down content featuring the comedian<\/strong> from its streaming service<\/p>\n

\u2022 The BBC has also removed some Brand content from iPlayer and Sounds<\/p>\n

\u2022 Paramount+ has removed a Brand stand-up comedy special, Live in New York City, from its service<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brand’s tour promoters have confirmed that his live shows have been postponed<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Metropolitan Police has received an allegation of sexual assault against Brand that dates back to 2003<\/p>\n

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Why are allegations only out now?<\/strong>
How YouTube stars make millions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Brand was at the centre of the so-called “Sachsgate” scandal in 2008, when he and TV presenter Jonathan Ross left lewd messages on the answerphone of Andrew Sachs, the late actor who starred in Fawlty Towers.<\/p>\n

The voicemails had related to Sachs’s granddaughter Georgina Baillie, who had an on-off relationship with Brand in the 2000s.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge<\/strong>, Baillie said that YouTube’s decision to suspend earnings from Brand’s channel amounted to “cancel culture”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old actress went on to say that, even though she did not know all of the details surrounding the allegations, some of the evidence is “compelling”.<\/p>\n

When asked about her thoughts about the claims, Baillie added: “I don’t know what happened there – I don’t know because I wasn’t there. He never did anything like that with me, everything was more than consensual, I promise.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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