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Richard Madeley has expressed his shock after being knowledgeable that he seems within the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary detailing disturbing allegations made towards Russell Brand.
On Saturday night time, the channel launched a programme titled Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches, which got here out on the identical day as an article following a joint investigation by The Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.
In the web article, 4 Women (Women attire Here) made accusations towards Brand, together with rape and sexual assault, which they allege befell between 2006 and 2013. The comic, 48, has vehemently denied all the allegations.
On Monday’s Good Morning Britain, co-hosts Madeley and Susanna Reid mentioned the newest information concerning Brand on the ITV programme with friends Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire.
At one level, Reid, 52, introduced up the truth that Madeley, 67, is proven within the Channel 4 documentary along with his spouse Judy Finnigan, 75, interviewing Brand a number of years in the past – a proven fact that he appeared visibly astonished to find.
‘There’s a clip the place you and Judy are interviewing Russell Brand,’ Reid mentioned, as Madeley responded: ‘Is there? In the documentary?’
The GMB presenter didn’t realised he appeared on the programme (Picture: Getty Images/ITV)Madeley speculated that the interview might need taken place round 2008 or 2009, as Reid defined how the intermotion unfolded.
‘There’s a type of you realize… he’s written a guide and he’s doing publicity for it, and Judy type of raises an eyebrow and says, “Ooh yeah, you’re all harmless Russell Brand, the way in which you behave,” and also you say, “Mm, butter wouldn’t soften,’ Reid mentioned.
As Madeley checked out his co-presenter, she continued: ‘It was nearly as you had been watching, I used to be considering, did you say that in a means that you simply form of knew his popularity, or was there something extra to that do you suppose?’
Madeley appeared again on the time in query, which was ‘a very long time in the past’, stressing that he ‘actually by no means heard allegations that he was a rapist or that he’d carried out something legal’.
Madeley recalled Brand’s previous popularity as a ‘womaniser’ on the time of their interview (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)‘Never heard that,’ he acknowledged. ‘If I had, we’d have needed to cope with that in an interview. However, as he himself has mentioned in his assertion, which he issued previous to the documentary going out, he had a horrible popularity as a womaniser, to make use of an old school phrase.
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‘His popularity was – and I received’t use the 4 letter phrase starting with S and ending with with R – however that’s what he was often known as. But I by no means heard allegations that he was something apart from a consensual operator in that area.
‘But sure – he was an operator. And the place there was a chance sexually, he would chase it up. And he says that himself, he was vastly promiscuous. But I’ve to say, I labored at Channel 4 on the time, I really by no means heard particular allegations that he was breaking the legislation.’
On Friday, forward of the Channel 4 documentary popping out and The Times piece being revealed, Brand posted a video on social media denying allegations that he mentioned had been set to be made towards him.
Brand has denied the allegations made towards him (Picture: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
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In the video, he mentioned that he ‘completely’ denied accusations, which he didn’t go into additional element about, explaining that he had obtained letters from a ‘mainstream media TV firm’ and a newspaper, which he mentioned included a ‘litany of extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults’.
The comic mentioned that there have been ‘some very critical allegations that I completely refute’, saying: ‘These allegations pertain to the time once I was working within the mainstream, once I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, once I was within the films and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I used to be very, very promiscuous.”
‘Now throughout that point of promiscuity the relationships I had had been completely, at all times consensual. I used to be at all times clear about that then, nearly too clear, and I’m being clear about it now as effectively.
‘To see that transparency metastasised into one thing legal, that I completely deny, makes me query is there one other agenda at play.’
The comedian added that he believed that he was being subjected to a ‘coordinated assault’ and that he could be trying into the allegations, as a result of it’s ‘very, very critical’.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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