Couldn’t get over how dull this was -

Dry-Tinder It’s all gone quiet on the Oakie, wankathon front too

Yeah funny that - another one which seemed complete nonsense from the beginning.

Mad_Cyril Who’s the fella who shat in a Kettle (or something along those lines)?

Jackmaster.

Although he was rather (only briefly) cancelled for supposedly being very handsy with people at a few gigs in quick succession. Not sure if the kettle thing was just some additional tidbit chucked on that makes things sound even worse, or to distract from the other stuff.

    Dan BBC News - Russell Brand accused of sexual assault by four women
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66831593

    All years and years ago, with no police charges having gone against him. Just reads like yet another coordinated attempt to take someone down by some people with axes to grind, with the hope that by chucking lots of salacious sounding information together it will cloud people from the fact that there’s likely no smoking gun for any of it.

    A second woman alleges that Brand assaulted her when he was 31 and she was 16 and still at school. It is claimed the actor referred to her as ‘the child’ during an emotionally abusive and controlling relationship that lasted for about three months

    I don’t know what was wrong with Ant n Dec, on a Saturday night. It might be a bit daft, but nobody got raped, that we know of yet anyway.

    As her taxi approached Russell Brand’s home, Alice remembers the driver begging her not to go inside. Recognising the destination, he had started to ask questions. Alice admitted she was 16 and still in school.
    She says the driver replied that his daughter was the same age and entreated Alice: “Please, I’m asking you not to go in there, you could be my little girl, and I would want someone to do this for her.” He offered to take her home without charge, but Alice insisted she was fine. “He had just such a sad look in his eyes,” she recalls.
    Alice, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, now realises that she wasn’t fine. During a relationship that lasted for about three months when Brand was a BBC radio presenter, she says that he referred to her as “the child” and alleges that he became increasingly controlling, and then emotionally and sexually abusive.
    Brand, then 30, sent a car to her secondary school to take her out of lessons and to his home, she says, and asked her to save his name in her phone as “Carly” to deceive her parents.

      benson
      Fuckinell, is that in the Times!!!

      Hardly journalism, proper hamming it up. Looks like bait for the pearl-clutchers and internet lynch-mobs.

      Almost undermines the claimants position, which isn’t a great thing

      That’s from the times.

      Yes.

      Sorry. Taking a 16 year old out of school for sex is bad. It’s even worse if you are 31.

        Hang on a fucking minute. Taking a 16 year old out of school for sex is bad??!

        Christ, we’re going backwards!

          Millsy
          Sit down Mills, news just in…

          Someone has just texted me that being nasty to benders and people of colour is also bad!!

          What’s going on with the world???

          Where is Zack with the Epstein-Brand connection phots?

            Having just watched Channel 4 news I actually feel sorry for Brand. I’m not a fan either. I do feel strongly that unless he’s actually convicted of a crime this is allegation at present and shouldn’t be the main news story or even in the news at all, as it will potentially undermine any proper investigation of which I don’t think there was any mention as whether there even is one.

              Amazing that not one single Epstein pedo client has been arrested let alone charged, but Russell Brand is about to get both barrels 🤷‍♀️

              Wasily as it will potentially undermine any proper investigation of which I don’t think there was any mention as whether there even is one.

              There is not, and seems unlikely to be when the accusers have conveniently chosen to remain anonymous and no official complaints have been filed.

              The rape accusation in the US will also probably be outside the statute of limitations.

              The BBC article states that:

              “The Sunday Times said all the women felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters.”

              Which sounds quite “predatory” in itself - some reporters were keen for a story and did what they could to find and create one.

              It’s not very difficult to see when the aims aren’t “justice” but slander.

              Can’t see him lasting long in the shovel.
              💀

              The conversation with Brand & Saville…. WTF.

              Wasily I feel quite similar tbh. I have never been a fan of the bloke, but I am surprised that this can be aired before any criminal proceedings are even raised?

              Whether any of it is true or not, his mainstream career is over. Just seems bizarre how this is being publicised

                alistair
                There’s some melodrama in the Times masquerading as journalism though.

                FUCKING BUUUURRRRRN HIM 🔥🔥🔥

                Back on the scag for Russ, he’s up to his neck in it. Sending cars to pick little girls up?

                gcw Whether any of it is true or not, his mainstream career is over.

                Two things on this - firstly even the attitude of assuming that mere accusations will be enough to wreck a career is part of the problem; such a chain of thinking should not be normalised.

                Second, Brand has spent recent years being very critical of mainstream media anyway, so such days were probably already in the past. I do wonder if this story was intended as a bit of revenge for that by some.

                Brand has always been a sex pest and his behaviour has been indulged and excused by the mainstream media over many years. The question is why now?

                  alistair Building up enough evidence as to form a watertight case.