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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 4:41 am
(September 20, 2023 at 4:32 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Lots of accusations. Some very serious.
Russell Brand allegations: What is the star accused of? - BBC News
Sadly, I'm not surprised going to be surprised if these turn out to be true and he's a predator.
Nor am I going to be surprised if the BBC, Channel4, and Hollywood turned a blind eye to it happening beneath their noses.
Of those three, Auntie Beeb is the one least likely to turn a blind eye. The Jimmy Savile stuff changed the culture of suppressing reports of sex abuse.
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 4:45 am
And yet one of the accusations:
"As part of a phone conversation broadcast on his radio programme, Brand offered to bring a female employee with him to meet Jimmy Savile - and agreed, at Savile's request, that she be naked"
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 4:50 am
(September 20, 2023 at 4:45 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: And yet one of the accusations:
"As part of a phone conversation broadcast on his radio programme, Brand offered to bring a female employee with him to meet Jimmy Savile - and agreed, at Savile's request, that she be naked"
That's not remotely the same thing.
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 4:53 am
What I mean is, some of the allegations concerning RB relate to behaviour at the BBC. That makes me wonder if the BBC really learned anything about this stuff after Saville.
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 4:56 am
Seldom do I get a creepy vibe from people...Russell Brand has always been one of the people who do. Just seeing a picture of him makes me feel like I need to shower with some Lysol.
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 5:00 am
Many people have felt that Brand was always creepy. You are not alone in that.
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 6:09 am
There is a documentary about his crimes
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 6:56 am
I have no love for Brand, I always found him to a bit of a pratt, but if he is guilty of anything let the courts decide, not the media. So far he is innocent until proven guilty.
(having said that I would not be surprised if he was guilty, but I don't have all the facts just what the sensationalist media are putting out)
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RE: Brand Accused of Sexual Misconduct
September 20, 2023 at 11:24 am
Brand is saying he is innocent and this attack is only because he's associating with people like Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro and for the things he's saying about a lot of powerful organisations.
I might be a pessimistic bastard but i think it could easily be that he is guilty and people now only care about it because he doesn't have the left wing Liberal image he once had that the majority of the media loves.
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