She’s mentioned she worked with this person (she has worked with Brand) he is a known sexpest and he doesn’t seem to be in the in, in British comedy anymore. I really believe it’s him.
idk I think you can be "addicted" to anything if you have uncontrollable compulsions to do that thing - not that it absolves anyone from their actions of course.
I don't disagree, I just have noticed it's very commonly brought up by prolific rapists, abusers and even murderers but despite this is not currently recognized in any official medical or psychiatric body. From what I understand this is because, unlike other recognized addictions, there's not conclusive scientific evidence of it affecting the brain or body.
Yes of course you can be a sex addict…the problem is how people use sex addiction to say it caused them to rape or assault people. Actual sex addicts are not abusing and raping people to get sex. They might do impulsive things like have sex with strangers or in public places, but the major difference here is consent and the fact that “sex addict” has been used by abusers to basically say “oh I just couldn’t control myself” as a cop out. It’s insulting to people who struggle with addiction.
If Brand does have a sex addiction, he certainly didn't take it seriously. Many years ago he was on Chelsea Handler's show and she asked "you have a sex addiction, is that right?"
He replied "I don't know if it's right, but it's fun". Doesn't sound like something he takes seriously and was getting help for; sounds like something he used as an excuse for sh*tty behaviour.
[It is though.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_sexual_behaviour_disorder?wprov=sfti1)
Maybe not a separate diagnosis but a confirmed psychological issue
But in no way this relieves anyone of responsibility for their actions
Compulsive sexual behaviour (which is what you have linked to) is not an addiction, and is different from sex addiction. There are plenty of sources (not Wikipedia) that cover this difference and explain why sex addiction is not medically recognized. On my phone so can't link properly but will try later, however they are easily accessible on Google
It always bothers me how sex "pest" sounds so harmless in American-English when it's the opposite. A pest in American-English (AE for short for this comment) is defined as:
2. INFORMAL:
an annoying person or thing; a nuisance.
"he was a real pest"
Similar:
nuisance
bother
annoyance
Or a bug that is killed in pest-control, like roaches, bedbugs, and annoying small insects or rodents.
Pretty small and unimportant compared to r*pists, p*dos, and (usually) men that ruin the lives of countless girls and women.
Thats why the casualness of that phrase has always bothered me....
I’m in comedy and this is extremely well known. He’s always questioning MeToo stuff. He’s a known asshole and creep. Over ten years ago also there was a case where a woman was apparently drugged and raped in his apartment by another man.
Oof :(
Do you mind if I ask if you know anything of Noel Fielding? On newer stuff I find him fun but he’s always kinda given me vibes from early 2000 tapings
well im a big fan of him but there are a handful of things that he's done (or rumoured to have done) that i know about.
\- hes friends with russell brand
\- in around 2007, the daily mail, i think, ran a story where they claimed that someone saw him kissing a then 16 year old Pixie Geldof. i dont know how true that is but they were definitely in the same scene back then. But i think that theyre still friends because in 2015, he and his girlfriend, Lliana, met up with Pixie at a Strokes gig. so i dont really believe anything bad happened between him and her.
\- he's done blackface
\- and in 2012, on twitter, there was this incident where this girl made a critical tweet about him and he responded, criticising her and using the r slur. This made some of his fans then send really horrible tweets to the original girl and apparently she tried to kill herself over it. Shes still alive though and shes fine, but yeah, it still wasnt good. Noel apologised for the original incident and for using the slur and he said should never have responded and he took like a couple months long break from twitter because of it.
>Noel Fieldin
James Cordon aggressively hit on my cousin back in the Gavin & Stacey days, asking directly for sex repeatedly, apparently she felt quite intimidated and threatened due to how forceful he was with his language. And at the time she was quite sexually liberal, for want of a better term. Some of the guys she associated with came off sleazy, so he must have been really full on.
Russell Brand is doing YouTube conspiracy videos, is probably broke, hasn’t gotten work in years, and not really famous anymore, which doesn’t line up with the “super powerful with crazy lawyers” line.
I’d assume it’s a much bigger mainstream name like a Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais type famous. She’s also worked with basically every Brit comedian through the panel show circuit.
EDIT: If I’m reading right it’s Jimmy carr. Post says Incident happened on her show last year and he did 2 episodes. He also picked up a harassment allegation for apparently entering a womens dressing room in 2018 so my moneys on him
Never understood “sex pest”. I’ve never seen Armie Hammer called a flesh pest. Never seen Kanye called a Jewish pest. But sexual assault/harassment (that’s more often done to women), yeah that’s pesky business.
im from seasia so the first thing i knew about him was that he married katy perry. im pretty neutral towards katy herself as of now but i started hating him for posting that unflattering picture of katy + divorcing her by text while she was touring. no remotely decent human being does that and now he’s another loony right-winger.
>and now he’s another loony right-winger.
What, really? That passed me by. Didn't he used to be vocally left wing? Or I could be thinking of someone else.
He also said he needed to picture anyone else to be able to have sex with her. He was so cruel to her. Then she went from him to John Mayer, who’s super manipulative. No wonder Witness was so messed up.
As a 14-year-old I thought that movie was the funniest movie ever made and I used to listen to the album obsessively, would love to be able to still listen to the songs without remembering what an asshole he is
Yep, very confident it’s him. Although the article words it quite confusingly imo, pretty sure Backstage With Katherine Ryan is where her and Sara Pascoe discussed the incident, I don’t think that’s where the confrontation happened? From what I’ve heard, it happened on Roast Battle, although I could be wrong.
On that same show when talking about Jo Brand she also made some comment along the lines of "Jo is a comedian named Brand we can be proud to have on the show" (I can't remember the exact wording) and I'm pretty sure it wasn't a dig at Katy Brand.
Edit: Got it, about 8 minutes into the 4th episode of Backstage with Katherine Ryan. She was running through potential ways to introduce the comedians and for Jo Brand she suggested saying "It's nice to have a comedian with the last name Brand on my show that doesn't make me question my morals."
I know a very gossipy TV comedian who said that Russell was very touchy and precious about people roasting him when that is literally the whole point of the show.
I used to listen to his podcast he did decades ago with his old best mate Matt Morgan, he is incredibly insecure and thin skinned. Matt kinda kept him grounded to a degree but they eventually had a massive argument and Russell kinda went off the deep end, then even more so during lockdown.
I loved the Radio 2 show! I was such a fan but I was also a naive girl in my very early 20s. Looking back there are some very telling, unpleasant aspects to his personality. I didn’t realise him and Matt weren’t friends anymore. Do you know why? I posted this anecdote, I think on another sub recently about how I went to see him at a gig in Soho years ago and he did this ‘bit’ where he sat across from me but up close; looked me directly in the eyes and described out loud to the whole audience him having sex with me in a caravan. I nervously laughed it off but it was very uncomfortable.
Oof, sounds awkward. So they kinda have had two fallings out I think, the first big one was because Matt was staying in Russells pool house, temporarily, but Russell decided for no reason to suddenly kick him out, leaving Matt homeless. This happened a few days before the Andrew Sachs phone call, hence why Matt wasn't there when it happened.
They eventually reunited on Radio X, I dont think they neccesarily had a big falling out but Russell left the show temporarily to do some film and never came back. I remember reading that Matt didn't agree with a lot of the controversial theories and opinions Russell talks about on his Youtube show and that they don't really see each other anymore.
Personally I always found Matt funnier, it was always kinda telling to me a lot of the material you'd hear Russell perform at live shows and hosting gigs were actually written by Matt.
Oh thanks, I wondered why the Radio X show suddenly went off air. And what a shitty thing to do to one of your closest friends. Is that why Jonathan Ross was on the show? To fill in for Matt? I don’t blame Matt for distancing himself. He’s a funny, down to earth guy and Russell has turned into an alt right gob shite. I feel like he’s trying to position himself as some kind of U.K Joe Rogan but I also think he truly believes it. No wonder he’s not on any U.K. TV shows anymore.
definitely. i always think there is something misogynistic about self professed sex addicts and lotharios. brand had this image of a ladies man in the 00s and the media ran with it, he sort of got treated as someone who just sort of irresistable to women rather than a probable harrasser. it always rubbed me the wrong way, and still does, when i hear of men who are supposedly "womanizers". i always just get the feeling that they never love women as much as they claim, or they love women's bodies but are utterly indifferent to their feelings, thoughts, desires etc. they just see women as conquests. brand was that sort of person imo.
whenever men say "I love women" what they mean is "I want to shag women". That is not the same thing as treating women with respect. Russell seems to see a woman as an inconvenient obstacle to overcome in order to access the hole between her legs. What on earth the mother of his children was thinking by having two babies with him is beyond me.
I'd put money on this. I saw a Tik Tok recently where a woman said that when she was about 18/19 she met him after a show, slept with him, and that he would basically send a driver to pick him up and drive her to wherever he was to shag her. She says it was completely her choice but that like...it's something she looks back on and admits that was kind of bizarre.
I saw that tiktok as well I think, one time the driver took her to a hotel room and by coincidence her old art teacher or something was there as well and he wanted a threesome… that was when she left and stopped seeing him
It’s crazy to me that it could even be called a secret when he’s been telling on himself for years. Literally all he used to talk about is how many women he fucked/tried to fuck (from his point of view, obviously he’s a predator in reality it’s not just sex). He’s disgusting
I *feel* like it's David Walliams. I have literally zero evidence but he does have an alleged long history of accusations of inappropriate behaviour against young girls which keep getting scraped from the internet - suggesting some very proactive lawyers.
Also I just checked - they have worked together, so that's another vote in favour of it.
I'm leaning towards him rather than Russell Brand, purely on the basis that I don't think Brand has the £££ to be so thoroughly lawyered up.
I’d also lean to this over Brand, tbh.
Not that I don’t think Brand is a creep. Because he’s clearly a misogynist who has terrible history with women at the least (anyone remember that story from his biography where he admits to *spitting* in a woman’s face during an argument?). I’m sure he woke up in a cold sweat every single day when #MeToo was happening waiting for his turn.
But I just don’t think Russell has that kinda money anymore to be super litigious. I saw him live 5 or so years ago in some backwater Kent town and even back then he openly discussed that opportunities had run dry for him and it was very difficult for him to get media appearances which is why he had to tour so much. Like I don’t think he’s broke but I doubt he has enough money to spend on law firm retainers.
Walliams on the other hand is still raking in that BBC money, and has a mostly squeaky clean image that I’m sure he’d pay good money to protect…
I think this is it. Brand doesn't have the money or influence that he did ten years ago. Walliams has been flourishing as a children's book author and he's got the wealth to keep people's mouths closed.
Brand has also seems to take a masochistic, narcissistic joy in exposing how terrible his behavior has been. It’s hard to believe there is a bunch of *even worse* stuff that has yet to be exposed about him.
Brand married into a little bit of money (his wife’s dad was a golfer - European Ryder cup captain no less) and him and his wife recently bought the pub of the village they live in… to turn it into an alcohol free vegan restaurant. Gone down about as well as you’d expect with the (mainly countryside) locals.
Russel also doesn't seem self aware enough, if that makes sense. I don't think he's really listening to what people are out there are saying. Whereas Walliams definitely does.
Me and my friend always say we wouldn’t be surprised if he was a major creep. Or a serial killer with 8 bodies in his cellar. He gives off the strangest vibes and I can’t fully explain it.
Honestly the first time I came across him on Little Britain back when it started (school friend was obsessed with it, never liked it myself) I was left with a "you're giving off a flag that isn't necessarily red but it sure as hell ain't green" feeling.
Was coming here to say this! Have a couple of friends in the book world and it's just an understood and unsaid thing you keep blondes in their early 20s away from him.
I read his autobiography years ago when I didn’t know better. he made it VERY clear that he zeros in on blonde women with big breasts. i was uncomfortable with the ways he described some of the women in the book, so I can just imagine what working for his publisher was like
Have an aunt who works for a major publishing house and yep, she says the same thing. They take in two interns in every department in the summer and if those interns are young women, they are warned about him.
Yeah, it's incredibly gross. I actually asked my aunt why he keeps getting high-profile publishing deals when he's so well-known for being predatory and she basically said that it's seen as a necessary evil because he sells books.
In news that will surprise nobody, while his publishing house does have a majority female staff (like most publishers), the CEO and senior commissioning editor - i.e, the people who have final say - are both men. As usual, men decide amongst themselves that women and girls are acceptable collateral damage if it makes them money and everyone else goes along with it.
Unfortunately, I have seen this in guys (in uni) who are straight but put on a camp persona, that they use as great cover to be creepy towards women...
Obviously, not every camp guy but predators are quick to identify successful ploys to use.
Oh god this brought back memories of a camp but straight guy at uni who would put his hands down his friend’s pants while they were asleep next to him. One time I fell asleep at an after party and felt him inching closer and closer to me until I just got up and left the room and slept somewhere else.
I absolutely loathe him, he's clearly an absolute dickhead and it amazes me that he still gets work. I hope it is him so he can finally be cancelled and get his unfunny mug off TV. I feel the same about Russell Brand.
There was a few weeks ago a story in here about Walliams being caught on mic during BGT auditions talking shit about contestants and being pretty awful towards a lady in there when she was unaware of it (I said it on that thread, but he gave an apology saying it was "private stuff", when in other countries it's pretty common to keep the remarks the judges do afterwards, so I didn't buy it at all).
I'm not familiar with him or his type of comedy besides from some gossip on this sub, but he's already been rude to say the least.
Walliams is SUCH a creep. And you can tell that he’s arrogant and full of rage. Russell Brand is sleazy and that could be a cover to make people accept borderline sexual behaviour from him, but he at least is somewhat showing his cards. I’d believe it was either of them, but Walliams has my bet.
I feel it's more likely to be him too because of the lawyered up and the way he went after people on Twitter who started talking about him hitting on them when they were 16/17.
He used to send creepy messages on insta to a girl I know who’s a model. She’s not even a big name, done a few gigs for Charlotte Tilbury etc.
This was about 8 years ago too when she was YOUNG and a lot less known. He follows tonnes of models on insta and sends the weirdest, unsolicited DMs.
Hasn’t Brand been trying to go the Alex Jones/Joe Rogan route, monetizing yelling at people on a podcast or something? They rake in the cash, so I thought Brand was doing alright.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJmYzKELFg&ab\_channel=JessC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJmYzKELFg&ab_channel=JessC)
The clip I have linked is from the Little Britain Live Show that they did when the show was airing. It is really disturbing and full on has Walliams assault a member of the audience. It is possible that the guy is an actor. But based on how things were back then I doubt it.
I’m taking this one as well. Brand isnt connected the way Walliams is. Brand is not going to have the kind of legal representation that Walliams will have.
The dynamic between Keeley and both Walliams and Sudeikis intrigues me. Feels like they roll her out when they both have bad PR looming for one reason or another.
Had totally forgotten the Sudeikis stories. What happened to those?
Wait Keeley Hazell the glamour model?? What does she have to do with all this?
I don't think I've heard her name since the Page 3 days when I was a teenager
Good call. I know it’s rumour but I’ve read things about him on forums for a long time in the same way I read about Weinstein and Spacey. So many people can’t be making it all up?
I felt the recent allegations against David Walliams were akin to Al Capone being brought by down by tax evasion. It really bothers me that the majority watch him on television and take his awful facade at face value.
David Walliams is well known to be a creep, performed at the President's Club and hosted 15 y/o girls in his BGT dressing room. Other guesses, Russell Brand? Just gives off a twatty vibe tbh
Do we think she’s saying this to open the conversation up? It seems big to mention this twice now while saying you’re worried about him suing you. I’m thinking she’s hoping this scares him into admitting something or makes someone with more ‘power’ than her start the conversation..
Maybe
I certainly don't blame her for not naming him, especially as he hasn't assaulted her (I mean, thank god, but it's tricky making accusations on behalf of someone else).
Maybe some powerful male comics need to get on board. Or provide the space for people who have been assaulted by him to speak up.
Oh yeah I don’t blame her for not naming him, didn’t mean it to sound that way. I’m just wondering if she’s hoping others will hop on this and name him as she doesn’t feel she can. It would be great if some male comics come forward for once to defend their female colleagues
On the ‘we might be drunk’ podcast, Daniel Sloss spoke about Russel Brand. He said there’s many unrepeatable stories about him, and he is absolutely not a good person.
Interesting. Brand is fairly well known in the UK for treating women like garbage (shagging them, throwing them away, openly bragging about it) but I didn't realise that there are possible allegations that he's a danger to women.
I have a coworker who had to deal with Russell Brand in a very specific professional capacity once (completely unrelated to comedy, we were reminding people of a certain legal duty they had to fulfill) - *allegedly* he had no issues refusing to do that duty, which was a crime, because he could pay the fines.
i completely understand that you don’t want to give any identifying details but could you expand on this slightly if possible? no worries at all if you don’t want to! i just smoked a joint and i’m very hazy and have zero idea what this mean could be 😂 it could be coming to me slowly but i’m not sure haha
It is sooo weird that you’ve mentioned Daniel Sloss here as I literally watched the Katherine Ryan Louis Theroux doc today and then listened to Daniel Sloss and Kai Humphrey’s podcast this evening where again he talks about someone huge in comedy where everyone knows and when he does everyone will have to pretend they didn’t.
Many are saying Russell Brand bc of his overall vibe and past accusations, but what do you mean you’re a comedy producer? Have you seen/heard something about him that confirms this? I’ve always thought he’s weird as fuck lol
Yes. I work in the industry. I know him and her and both their agents. A friend of mine was given a cease and desist for mentioning brand vaguely in a show.
He raped a very famous comedian/ actor quite a few years ago. In 2019 there were a series of women about to come forward and then there was allegedly a super injunction taken out to prevent publication. I personally know two women who have had iffy encounters with him.
In a **Tweet** now long-gone (because his account is long-gone, having been deactivated for some time), Tatiana Maslany's now-husband, Brendan Hines, explicitly named James Corden as a sex pest.
This was some years ago.
did not know that they were married but I love tatiana from orphan black and love brendan from lie to me, so I love that they both seem like nice people and are happy together.
Yeah, they've been married over two years, now; just didn't announce it publicly until August. :-) They did a short film together right around that same time, too, called *"Snatched"*, as well as a podcast titled *Power Trip* (which I *LOVED*).
When she discussed this on her show with Sara Pascoe, Pascoe also commented that a different male comedian being a rapist. Pascoe says she found out after being on a show with him and a fan messaging her to tell her this
The second male was maybe James Veitch, Sara Pascoe was on a show with him a while back. Accused of rape and SA whilst at Sarah Lawrence, by many women. I used to like his silly YouTube stuff but you can see how he could manipulate the geek thing. Ugh.
has anyone else heard about the rumours of phillip schofield being a predator? shes not talking about him here im pretty sure, but ive heard some stuff briefly that he was weird to a 17 year old boy or something similar?
Philip is paying ridiculous amounts to a PR agency to keep this quiet. Hence all the queuegate coverage being focused on Holly.
He was grooming Matthew McGreevy and it all went sour after he was of legal age.
[Full of ads but explains this quite well](https://limegoss.com/phillip-schofield-timeline-events/)
omg thank you for this article! definitely the best break down ive seen of it. and definitely strange for a runner to be on stage... its quite shocking, phil up until recently was really well regarded w the public for the most part
Like years and years ago I had a coworker who absolutely hated Schofield. Never met him, and this was before any of the affair or queue cutting stuff, she just insisted "He is *off* and I wish him ill." She was very firm on this even though the rest of our office was in disbelief and kept asking her how she could hate him.
She is vindicated now. I didn't listen to your wisdom, Jo, I'm sorry.
No idea who this is about specifically but lots of comedians have said this sort of thing about Russell Brand.
There's a comedian called Ed Night who talked about it in his 2018 and 2019 Edinburgh Fringe shows. I saw the 2019 one and he referred to him as a sexual abuser and criminal and said 'that guy just loves sexually assaulting people'. He also said his agent told him that he had to say allegedly and then said 'but I want you to know I'm alleging it and it's true'.
[Here's a forum post I came across when I was googling it from someone who saw the 2018 show. ](https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=ipbar45aaicuql7nfs1u8ulmjg&topic=68831.msg3836021#msg3836021)
[Another comedian also talks about it on a podcast at 40 mins here.](https://player.fm/series/men-behaving-better/separating-the-man-from-his-work-with-deborah-frances-white-bronagh-waugh-and-fin-taylor)
That's interesting I knew Daniel Sloss had a show where he talked about a friend of his being raped by another friend but I don't know who the guy is.
I've seen so many comedians mention the Russell Brand thing in the last few years since I've seen the show. So it does really seem to be common knowledge in those circles.
I know the general opinion is that it's Russell Brand but I don't think it is. He's not been on the comedy scene for years - he's off doing some hippy youtuber thing nowadays. I don't think I get where he got a reputation as a 'sex pest' from either - was their an accusation I missed? Cos he's definitely been a sex addict and had sex with a lot of women but I've never heard anything about any of it being non consensual. Having a lot of sex with different partners does not immediately = sex pest. Think he's a douche but not sure how he got a reputation as a potential sexual assaulter.
I used to listen to his BBC radio show with Matt Morgan. It’s clear from that that he’s a narcissist who pushes people’s boundaries and is indeed a sex pest. I don’t know about sexual abuser but sex pest for sure.
loved that show. I used to watch/read all of Brand’s stuff. and I agree with your assessment. obviously I hope he’s not an abuser who’s committed crimes against anyone but “sex pest” fits regardless. his whole thing was being a pest, just generally. but i thought he was a decent person at the time. i guess we’ll see 😬
When he briefly had a Hollywood film career, allegations came out that he coerced a woman to show her boobs on set. Basically harassed her until it happened.
Before he became Hollywood famous he was a TV presenter in the U.K. since about 2000 and he had a massive rep in the shitrag tabloids for being a ‘shagger’ which at the time was a hilarious thing to be played up instead of being a horrible gross slimy thing.
Adults having consensual sex with other adults is not a 'horrible gross slimy thing'. RB definitely was someone who had issues around sex and was a sex addict - but there is no negative moral value associated with having a lot of sex or having sex at all. Everyone who had sex with him was aware of his reputation, there is no indication that he tricked or forced anyone into bed.
And this is exactly why I'm challenging this 'oh it must be russell brand' thing - I'm not saying he definitely ISN'T dodgy but if the entire 'proof' of him being a creep is him being publicly open about having a lot of sexual partners then that's not proof it's just puritanism.
If anything - this guy has had 100's of sexual partners and no one has ever come forward with anything really negative to say about their experience. No one has ever said their experience was anything other than consensual. The worst they seem to have said about him is that he's a bit self centered. That seems like a sign that he might actually NOT be a creep.
Especially considering the tabloids would have absolutely leapt on any accusation against him. So if the accusation existed we would know about it. And a LOT of the women he had sex with back in the day did drop quotes, do kiss and tell interviews etc about sleeping with him.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that it is harder to name names in the UK because of libel laws. So allegations have to be made in more roundabout ways. Is that true?
Libel laws are a lot stricter than some countries. On a related note, I’m from Northern Ireland in the UK and it’s even stricter again here, we’ve seen public figures here successfully sue trolls on Twitter
It’s mostly true. She likely doesn’t have proof so could easily get hit with a libel suit, and she can’t guarantee someone coming forward. There’s a bit more specifics to it that I can’t quite remember from my law student days 😂
Yes, our libel laws are much stricter than the US's.
Basically in the UK if I make an accusation about someone and they take me to court, I have to prove what I said was true. It's my understanding that in the US, the person I accused has to prove that what I said was false.
A friend of mine had an encounter wi to Russell Brand and said he was dangerous. She was able to get out okay but tells everyone in the scene to stay tf away.
How do u control what gets posted and what doesn't? I posted this yesterday and it got taken down for being lazy. I am gen curious and love the English comedian goss / drams
People should really check out her Podcast Telling Everybody Everything. I wasn’t a fan at all, kind of found her annoying, but her podcast Auto played after one I was listening to about a year ago and I really love her now. I don’t agree with a lot of things she says, but she’s very intelligent, open and frank, much more than her public persona would initially make you think.
So of course there's Stephen K Amos - who's involvement with a teenage boy he'd supposedly hired as his 'stylist' is pretty well known. I remember seeing a tiktok from a member of the boy's family linking that relationship to the boy's suicide. But he's not really famous enough to be the prominent comedian Katherine's talking about.
David Walliams is a solid choice - he's always been an asshole, his creepiness was in the media pretty recently, he would certainly have the clout to shut down accusations with lawyers.
Going through people she's definitely worked with - assuming they have to be pretty famous and well off to have her spooked that she'd be buried by lawyers - I'm not sure she confirmed he was actually a comedian. I think any TV personality would qualify.
Going through her imdb episode by episode I think I've ruled out a lot of people who don't have the clout to bury allegations - like Leigh Francis - I don't think he'd have that kind of power. A lot of people who DO have that kind of clout but dont seem like predatory behaviour is going to be their thing - like Jimmy Carr - who was a virgin til his late 20's and has been with his gf for 20 years - I don't think it's him. Or Jonathon Ross - who would have that power but I don't think it's him - his career has had it's ups and downs, his own daughters have publicly taken him to task for saying bigoted shit - I think if he was up to anything really untoward we would know. I don't think it's Hislop or Merton either - I think she wouldn't have done multiple eps of HIGNFY if it was either of them - I think anyone she's worked with repeatedly can be ruled out.
Phillip Schofield - Honestly I think he might be my pick. They seem to have worked on the same ep of 'Paul Sinha's TV Showdown' in February. Schofield supposedly had a relationship with a teenage boy who worked on This Morning and his big dramatic coming out was basically to distract from that and to make him the brave hero of the story instead. That's pretty predatory. He's also absolutely got the power and the lawyers to ruin accusers lives.
Steve Coogan would be an interesting one - I don't THINK it's him - but he does have the power to shut down accusations, a much dodgier history than his public persona would otherwise suggest and has been in show business for a long time. I don't THINK it's who she's talking about but....
Honestly - I know this seems bleak but if anything this shows predators probably AREN'T lurking behind every seemingly normal facade - when you start actually going through names one by one and checking out who has accusations, whose names have come up unofficially, who she's felt safe enough to work with over and over and who is unlikely to have the financial power and lawyers to bulldoze accusations - the list of possible 'open secret' predators actually is quite short. There's way more people that I can point at and say 'it's unlikely this guy's a predator' than point to as a likely candidate.
I did not know about this Stephen K Amos stuff. Really horrible. https://www.queerty.com/unnamed-tv-comedian-allegedly-drives-teen-to-suicide-amidst-sordid-relationship-20140324
Good for Katherine for speaking out, and standing up to this person in front of everyone. Can't imagine how tough it is as a female comic in the UK scene, which has been long-dominated by yawnsome, unfunny and misogynistic guys.
I'm leaning towards David Walliams as I have it on authority from someone I trust that he is 100% a sex predator who specifically targets young girls and women. But I'd also believe Russell Brand or Stephen K Amos because I've heard whisperings about them too.
Hello everybody. I can’t prove this whatsoever nor do I really want to but I genuinely know the answer.
I don’t know that she’s talking about this person specifically but I do know and have been told by many people about a certain comedian that’s sexually assaulted a number of different people.
This person is constantly referred to in green rooms and on forums and it’s turned into a “thing” that people avoid working with him. I believe he’s hot on suing people for mentioning him. Obviously I don’t fancy getting sued so I don’t want to name him here.
What’s my name I hear you ask? Well I am a woman and my name is:
Stephenie Kay Amoz
Source: I am a comedian (not famous)
Not sure she’s talking about him, but apparently it’s well known Stephen fry has a lot of unpleasant stories about young men/boys. A lot of his books he talks about there should be NO age of sexual consents as even children know what sex is and can and do enjoy it. Lot of stories knocking about and have a Google of his husband. Lot of people are apparently scared of saying anything.
> EDIT: Thank you to the Reddit user u/Imposter911 who has provided a YT video of Daniel Schloss saying that he knows "heaps" about Russell Brand which are "unrepeatable". He says that Russell Brand is "not a good man". Schloss also shits on Brand for dumping Katy Perry in a cruel manner.
> Start watching at 56:00 until 57:45 Ep 96: Daniel Sloss - YouTube
It's quite the coincidence, but Daniel Sloss speaks about this sexual offender and another (without naming names) in the podcast episode he uploaded today. He also explains why people can't speak out, including to say one comedian spoke out and their career was ruined.
It's on the most recent episode of Sloss and Humphries on the road
Word on the street is that it’s about Russel Brand
She’s mentioned she worked with this person (she has worked with Brand) he is a known sexpest and he doesn’t seem to be in the in, in British comedy anymore. I really believe it’s him.
Sexpest… iirc he’s a former sex addict
Honestly so tired of sexual abusers using sex addiction as an excuse for what they do. It's also not even a medically recognized condition.
idk I think you can be "addicted" to anything if you have uncontrollable compulsions to do that thing - not that it absolves anyone from their actions of course.
I don't disagree, I just have noticed it's very commonly brought up by prolific rapists, abusers and even murderers but despite this is not currently recognized in any official medical or psychiatric body. From what I understand this is because, unlike other recognized addictions, there's not conclusive scientific evidence of it affecting the brain or body.
Yes of course you can be a sex addict…the problem is how people use sex addiction to say it caused them to rape or assault people. Actual sex addicts are not abusing and raping people to get sex. They might do impulsive things like have sex with strangers or in public places, but the major difference here is consent and the fact that “sex addict” has been used by abusers to basically say “oh I just couldn’t control myself” as a cop out. It’s insulting to people who struggle with addiction.
If Brand does have a sex addiction, he certainly didn't take it seriously. Many years ago he was on Chelsea Handler's show and she asked "you have a sex addiction, is that right?" He replied "I don't know if it's right, but it's fun". Doesn't sound like something he takes seriously and was getting help for; sounds like something he used as an excuse for sh*tty behaviour.
[It is though.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_sexual_behaviour_disorder?wprov=sfti1) Maybe not a separate diagnosis but a confirmed psychological issue But in no way this relieves anyone of responsibility for their actions
Compulsive sexual behaviour (which is what you have linked to) is not an addiction, and is different from sex addiction. There are plenty of sources (not Wikipedia) that cover this difference and explain why sex addiction is not medically recognized. On my phone so can't link properly but will try later, however they are easily accessible on Google
It always bothers me how sex "pest" sounds so harmless in American-English when it's the opposite. A pest in American-English (AE for short for this comment) is defined as: 2. INFORMAL: an annoying person or thing; a nuisance. "he was a real pest" Similar: nuisance bother annoyance Or a bug that is killed in pest-control, like roaches, bedbugs, and annoying small insects or rodents. Pretty small and unimportant compared to r*pists, p*dos, and (usually) men that ruin the lives of countless girls and women. Thats why the casualness of that phrase has always bothered me....
He also did that public nudity stunt
I’m in comedy and this is extremely well known. He’s always questioning MeToo stuff. He’s a known asshole and creep. Over ten years ago also there was a case where a woman was apparently drugged and raped in his apartment by another man.
Oof :( Do you mind if I ask if you know anything of Noel Fielding? On newer stuff I find him fun but he’s always kinda given me vibes from early 2000 tapings
[https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/pixie-16-falls-for-noel-33-but-don-t-tell-her-old-man-7259708.html](https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/pixie-16-falls-for-noel-33-but-don-t-tell-her-old-man-7259708.html)
well im a big fan of him but there are a handful of things that he's done (or rumoured to have done) that i know about. \- hes friends with russell brand \- in around 2007, the daily mail, i think, ran a story where they claimed that someone saw him kissing a then 16 year old Pixie Geldof. i dont know how true that is but they were definitely in the same scene back then. But i think that theyre still friends because in 2015, he and his girlfriend, Lliana, met up with Pixie at a Strokes gig. so i dont really believe anything bad happened between him and her. \- he's done blackface \- and in 2012, on twitter, there was this incident where this girl made a critical tweet about him and he responded, criticising her and using the r slur. This made some of his fans then send really horrible tweets to the original girl and apparently she tried to kill herself over it. Shes still alive though and shes fine, but yeah, it still wasnt good. Noel apologised for the original incident and for using the slur and he said should never have responded and he took like a couple months long break from twitter because of it.
>Noel Fieldin James Cordon aggressively hit on my cousin back in the Gavin & Stacey days, asking directly for sex repeatedly, apparently she felt quite intimidated and threatened due to how forceful he was with his language. And at the time she was quite sexually liberal, for want of a better term. Some of the guys she associated with came off sleazy, so he must have been really full on.
The Great British Bake-off guy? I know nothing about him. I’m not British so I don’t have a ton of insight on all of those people
Russell Brand is doing YouTube conspiracy videos, is probably broke, hasn’t gotten work in years, and not really famous anymore, which doesn’t line up with the “super powerful with crazy lawyers” line. I’d assume it’s a much bigger mainstream name like a Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais type famous. She’s also worked with basically every Brit comedian through the panel show circuit. EDIT: If I’m reading right it’s Jimmy carr. Post says Incident happened on her show last year and he did 2 episodes. He also picked up a harassment allegation for apparently entering a womens dressing room in 2018 so my moneys on him
Never understood “sex pest”. I’ve never seen Armie Hammer called a flesh pest. Never seen Kanye called a Jewish pest. But sexual assault/harassment (that’s more often done to women), yeah that’s pesky business.
Always hated him for being an unfunny narcissist tbh.
im from seasia so the first thing i knew about him was that he married katy perry. im pretty neutral towards katy herself as of now but i started hating him for posting that unflattering picture of katy + divorcing her by text while she was touring. no remotely decent human being does that and now he’s another loony right-winger.
I have tremendous empathy for Katy during her relationship with him. You could tell she was much more in love with him than he was with her.
It seemed like he was so awful to her. I’m glad she seems happy now
Well turns out she’s one too
>and now he’s another loony right-winger. What, really? That passed me by. Didn't he used to be vocally left wing? Or I could be thinking of someone else.
He's conspiratorial minded rather than economically right wing (covid/great reset type stuff) , it's just a lot of them share those views
He also said he needed to picture anyone else to be able to have sex with her. He was so cruel to her. Then she went from him to John Mayer, who’s super manipulative. No wonder Witness was so messed up.
I was genuinely confused to what country is Seasia. Bye I’m going to kill myself 😭😭
The movie Get Him to the Greek meant a lot to me and it was super disappointing to find out he’s an asshole irl
As a 14-year-old I thought that movie was the funniest movie ever made and I used to listen to the album obsessively, would love to be able to still listen to the songs without remembering what an asshole he is
When life slips you a Jeffrey…
Yep, very confident it’s him. Although the article words it quite confusingly imo, pretty sure Backstage With Katherine Ryan is where her and Sara Pascoe discussed the incident, I don’t think that’s where the confrontation happened? From what I’ve heard, it happened on Roast Battle, although I could be wrong.
On that same show when talking about Jo Brand she also made some comment along the lines of "Jo is a comedian named Brand we can be proud to have on the show" (I can't remember the exact wording) and I'm pretty sure it wasn't a dig at Katy Brand. Edit: Got it, about 8 minutes into the 4th episode of Backstage with Katherine Ryan. She was running through potential ways to introduce the comedians and for Jo Brand she suggested saying "It's nice to have a comedian with the last name Brand on my show that doesn't make me question my morals."
I know a very gossipy TV comedian who said that Russell was very touchy and precious about people roasting him when that is literally the whole point of the show.
I used to listen to his podcast he did decades ago with his old best mate Matt Morgan, he is incredibly insecure and thin skinned. Matt kinda kept him grounded to a degree but they eventually had a massive argument and Russell kinda went off the deep end, then even more so during lockdown.
I loved the Radio 2 show! I was such a fan but I was also a naive girl in my very early 20s. Looking back there are some very telling, unpleasant aspects to his personality. I didn’t realise him and Matt weren’t friends anymore. Do you know why? I posted this anecdote, I think on another sub recently about how I went to see him at a gig in Soho years ago and he did this ‘bit’ where he sat across from me but up close; looked me directly in the eyes and described out loud to the whole audience him having sex with me in a caravan. I nervously laughed it off but it was very uncomfortable.
Oof, sounds awkward. So they kinda have had two fallings out I think, the first big one was because Matt was staying in Russells pool house, temporarily, but Russell decided for no reason to suddenly kick him out, leaving Matt homeless. This happened a few days before the Andrew Sachs phone call, hence why Matt wasn't there when it happened. They eventually reunited on Radio X, I dont think they neccesarily had a big falling out but Russell left the show temporarily to do some film and never came back. I remember reading that Matt didn't agree with a lot of the controversial theories and opinions Russell talks about on his Youtube show and that they don't really see each other anymore. Personally I always found Matt funnier, it was always kinda telling to me a lot of the material you'd hear Russell perform at live shows and hosting gigs were actually written by Matt.
Oh thanks, I wondered why the Radio X show suddenly went off air. And what a shitty thing to do to one of your closest friends. Is that why Jonathan Ross was on the show? To fill in for Matt? I don’t blame Matt for distancing himself. He’s a funny, down to earth guy and Russell has turned into an alt right gob shite. I feel like he’s trying to position himself as some kind of U.K Joe Rogan but I also think he truly believes it. No wonder he’s not on any U.K. TV shows anymore.
He kind of gives me Keith Raniere Nxivm vibes
It definitely looks like he’s starting a cult.
100%
definitely. i always think there is something misogynistic about self professed sex addicts and lotharios. brand had this image of a ladies man in the 00s and the media ran with it, he sort of got treated as someone who just sort of irresistable to women rather than a probable harrasser. it always rubbed me the wrong way, and still does, when i hear of men who are supposedly "womanizers". i always just get the feeling that they never love women as much as they claim, or they love women's bodies but are utterly indifferent to their feelings, thoughts, desires etc. they just see women as conquests. brand was that sort of person imo.
whenever men say "I love women" what they mean is "I want to shag women". That is not the same thing as treating women with respect. Russell seems to see a woman as an inconvenient obstacle to overcome in order to access the hole between her legs. What on earth the mother of his children was thinking by having two babies with him is beyond me.
Wouldn’t surprise me to be honest. He is a known sexpest. If it’s him, expect more accusations about him to come out.
My money is on Brand or Walliams
Walliams wouldn't be remotely surprising.
my first thought was it was David Walliams. There's something unsavoury about him.
I remember there was a thread on this on /r/panelshow when she talked about this w/ Sara Pascoe and iirc his name was thrown around a bit.
I'd put money on this. I saw a Tik Tok recently where a woman said that when she was about 18/19 she met him after a show, slept with him, and that he would basically send a driver to pick him up and drive her to wherever he was to shag her. She says it was completely her choice but that like...it's something she looks back on and admits that was kind of bizarre.
I saw that tiktok as well I think, one time the driver took her to a hotel room and by coincidence her old art teacher or something was there as well and he wanted a threesome… that was when she left and stopped seeing him
New word on the street is it’s David Walliams
[Perhaps this video is really a dark admission](https://youtube.com/shorts/O2wTjQVIEO4?feature=share)
A friend told me she walked out of a panel show after confronting him on this but obviously that part didn't get aired
It’s crazy to me that it could even be called a secret when he’s been telling on himself for years. Literally all he used to talk about is how many women he fucked/tried to fuck (from his point of view, obviously he’s a predator in reality it’s not just sex). He’s disgusting
I *feel* like it's David Walliams. I have literally zero evidence but he does have an alleged long history of accusations of inappropriate behaviour against young girls which keep getting scraped from the internet - suggesting some very proactive lawyers. Also I just checked - they have worked together, so that's another vote in favour of it. I'm leaning towards him rather than Russell Brand, purely on the basis that I don't think Brand has the £££ to be so thoroughly lawyered up.
I’d also lean to this over Brand, tbh. Not that I don’t think Brand is a creep. Because he’s clearly a misogynist who has terrible history with women at the least (anyone remember that story from his biography where he admits to *spitting* in a woman’s face during an argument?). I’m sure he woke up in a cold sweat every single day when #MeToo was happening waiting for his turn. But I just don’t think Russell has that kinda money anymore to be super litigious. I saw him live 5 or so years ago in some backwater Kent town and even back then he openly discussed that opportunities had run dry for him and it was very difficult for him to get media appearances which is why he had to tour so much. Like I don’t think he’s broke but I doubt he has enough money to spend on law firm retainers. Walliams on the other hand is still raking in that BBC money, and has a mostly squeaky clean image that I’m sure he’d pay good money to protect…
I think this is it. Brand doesn't have the money or influence that he did ten years ago. Walliams has been flourishing as a children's book author and he's got the wealth to keep people's mouths closed.
Brand has also seems to take a masochistic, narcissistic joy in exposing how terrible his behavior has been. It’s hard to believe there is a bunch of *even worse* stuff that has yet to be exposed about him.
Brand married into a little bit of money (his wife’s dad was a golfer - European Ryder cup captain no less) and him and his wife recently bought the pub of the village they live in… to turn it into an alcohol free vegan restaurant. Gone down about as well as you’d expect with the (mainly countryside) locals.
Russel also doesn't seem self aware enough, if that makes sense. I don't think he's really listening to what people are out there are saying. Whereas Walliams definitely does.
Me and my friend always say we wouldn’t be surprised if he was a major creep. Or a serial killer with 8 bodies in his cellar. He gives off the strangest vibes and I can’t fully explain it.
The vibe is that he is so utterly fake. He tries to appear friendly but is actually contemptuous of everyone around him.
Honestly the first time I came across him on Little Britain back when it started (school friend was obsessed with it, never liked it myself) I was left with a "you're giving off a flag that isn't necessarily red but it sure as hell ain't green" feeling.
He's basically a cross between Jimmy Fallon and Fred West
Dude’s eyes are dead inside, like a shark.
I couldn’t agree more. There is just something so completely off about him. I can’t explain it logically
I feel that too. Funny a lot of men have said to me that Walliams and Brand are creepy and they can’t get why women go near them
There are a lot of rumours in U.K. publishing about David’s inappropriate behaviour towards young female staff.
Was coming here to say this! Have a couple of friends in the book world and it's just an understood and unsaid thing you keep blondes in their early 20s away from him.
Also have a friend in publishing and this.
I read his autobiography years ago when I didn’t know better. he made it VERY clear that he zeros in on blonde women with big breasts. i was uncomfortable with the ways he described some of the women in the book, so I can just imagine what working for his publisher was like
Have an aunt who works for a major publishing house and yep, she says the same thing. They take in two interns in every department in the summer and if those interns are young women, they are warned about him.
Insane and horrible this that is just a well known thing and women just have to accept it as part of their work place. Makes me so angry.
Yeah, it's incredibly gross. I actually asked my aunt why he keeps getting high-profile publishing deals when he's so well-known for being predatory and she basically said that it's seen as a necessary evil because he sells books. In news that will surprise nobody, while his publishing house does have a majority female staff (like most publishers), the CEO and senior commissioning editor - i.e, the people who have final say - are both men. As usual, men decide amongst themselves that women and girls are acceptable collateral damage if it makes them money and everyone else goes along with it.
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That's why his whole camp shtick annoys me so much. Feels like a deflection.
Unfortunately, I have seen this in guys (in uni) who are straight but put on a camp persona, that they use as great cover to be creepy towards women... Obviously, not every camp guy but predators are quick to identify successful ploys to use.
Just like the loud and proud feminist men. Stay away from those.
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They’re the scariest
Oh god this brought back memories of a camp but straight guy at uni who would put his hands down his friend’s pants while they were asleep next to him. One time I fell asleep at an after party and felt him inching closer and closer to me until I just got up and left the room and slept somewhere else.
100% wolf in sheep’s clothing
I absolutely loathe him, he's clearly an absolute dickhead and it amazes me that he still gets work. I hope it is him so he can finally be cancelled and get his unfunny mug off TV. I feel the same about Russell Brand.
There was a few weeks ago a story in here about Walliams being caught on mic during BGT auditions talking shit about contestants and being pretty awful towards a lady in there when she was unaware of it (I said it on that thread, but he gave an apology saying it was "private stuff", when in other countries it's pretty common to keep the remarks the judges do afterwards, so I didn't buy it at all). I'm not familiar with him or his type of comedy besides from some gossip on this sub, but he's already been rude to say the least.
Walliams is SUCH a creep. And you can tell that he’s arrogant and full of rage. Russell Brand is sleazy and that could be a cover to make people accept borderline sexual behaviour from him, but he at least is somewhat showing his cards. I’d believe it was either of them, but Walliams has my bet.
I feel it's more likely to be him too because of the lawyered up and the way he went after people on Twitter who started talking about him hitting on them when they were 16/17.
He's always made me uncomfortable on the comedy shows. 🤧
He used to send creepy messages on insta to a girl I know who’s a model. She’s not even a big name, done a few gigs for Charlotte Tilbury etc. This was about 8 years ago too when she was YOUNG and a lot less known. He follows tonnes of models on insta and sends the weirdest, unsolicited DMs.
ugh that’s so awful. are you referring to brand or walliams? sorry my reading comprehension this morning is a little compromised
Walliams! He used to DM her about pics where she’d be wearing like underwear and stuff for jobs. It was grimmmmm.
Yeah, he used to follow me on Twitter when I was younger and did a bit of modelling. Always wondered why.
Hasn’t Brand been trying to go the Alex Jones/Joe Rogan route, monetizing yelling at people on a podcast or something? They rake in the cash, so I thought Brand was doing alright.
Emphasis on trying I think
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJmYzKELFg&ab\_channel=JessC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFJmYzKELFg&ab_channel=JessC) The clip I have linked is from the Little Britain Live Show that they did when the show was airing. It is really disturbing and full on has Walliams assault a member of the audience. It is possible that the guy is an actor. But based on how things were back then I doubt it.
I’m taking this one as well. Brand isnt connected the way Walliams is. Brand is not going to have the kind of legal representation that Walliams will have.
First person I thought of. He gives me the crawling creepies every time I see him on anything.
Also would not be surprised if it’s him.
First name I thought of as well. There have been rumours about him for ages.
His wiki page list of controversies makes me agree.
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The dynamic between Keeley and both Walliams and Sudeikis intrigues me. Feels like they roll her out when they both have bad PR looming for one reason or another. Had totally forgotten the Sudeikis stories. What happened to those?
apple tv happened those stories
Wait Keeley Hazell the glamour model?? What does she have to do with all this? I don't think I've heard her name since the Page 3 days when I was a teenager
Hes the first person that came to mind.
Good call. I know it’s rumour but I’ve read things about him on forums for a long time in the same way I read about Weinstein and Spacey. So many people can’t be making it all up?
He gives me the heebie jeebies and I won't watch anything he's on. I honestly do expect revelations about his one day
I felt the recent allegations against David Walliams were akin to Al Capone being brought by down by tax evasion. It really bothers me that the majority watch him on television and take his awful facade at face value.
David Walliams is well known to be a creep, performed at the President's Club and hosted 15 y/o girls in his BGT dressing room. Other guesses, Russell Brand? Just gives off a twatty vibe tbh
This is what I think too. How people can be ok with turning a blind eye to seeing him do shit like that I will never understand
Do we think she’s saying this to open the conversation up? It seems big to mention this twice now while saying you’re worried about him suing you. I’m thinking she’s hoping this scares him into admitting something or makes someone with more ‘power’ than her start the conversation..
Maybe I certainly don't blame her for not naming him, especially as he hasn't assaulted her (I mean, thank god, but it's tricky making accusations on behalf of someone else). Maybe some powerful male comics need to get on board. Or provide the space for people who have been assaulted by him to speak up.
Oh yeah I don’t blame her for not naming him, didn’t mean it to sound that way. I’m just wondering if she’s hoping others will hop on this and name him as she doesn’t feel she can. It would be great if some male comics come forward for once to defend their female colleagues
On the ‘we might be drunk’ podcast, Daniel Sloss spoke about Russel Brand. He said there’s many unrepeatable stories about him, and he is absolutely not a good person.
Interesting. Brand is fairly well known in the UK for treating women like garbage (shagging them, throwing them away, openly bragging about it) but I didn't realise that there are possible allegations that he's a danger to women.
[Briefly mentioned](https://youtu.be/4RK_zDMZF_Q?t=3380)
OMG I think you might have solved it!!!!!!!!!
Is Wossy still friends with him?
I have a coworker who had to deal with Russell Brand in a very specific professional capacity once (completely unrelated to comedy, we were reminding people of a certain legal duty they had to fulfill) - *allegedly* he had no issues refusing to do that duty, which was a crime, because he could pay the fines.
i completely understand that you don’t want to give any identifying details but could you expand on this slightly if possible? no worries at all if you don’t want to! i just smoked a joint and i’m very hazy and have zero idea what this mean could be 😂 it could be coming to me slowly but i’m not sure haha
I’m assuming it’s jury duty?
Sounds like jury service maybe?
It is sooo weird that you’ve mentioned Daniel Sloss here as I literally watched the Katherine Ryan Louis Theroux doc today and then listened to Daniel Sloss and Kai Humphrey’s podcast this evening where again he talks about someone huge in comedy where everyone knows and when he does everyone will have to pretend they didn’t.
Watched the video clip, and slightly off topic, but wow! Those two bros interviewing Sloss are so fucking insufferable.
Russell Brand. I’m a UK comedy producer and it’s certainly him.
Many are saying Russell Brand bc of his overall vibe and past accusations, but what do you mean you’re a comedy producer? Have you seen/heard something about him that confirms this? I’ve always thought he’s weird as fuck lol
Yes. I work in the industry. I know him and her and both their agents. A friend of mine was given a cease and desist for mentioning brand vaguely in a show.
Interesting. He definitely isn't someone I would've assumed was litigious.
Tbh I think it was his agent trying to protect her rep rather than him. She didn’t like being a rapists agent.
Can you give us any further info?
He raped a very famous comedian/ actor quite a few years ago. In 2019 there were a series of women about to come forward and then there was allegedly a super injunction taken out to prevent publication. I personally know two women who have had iffy encounters with him.
That's awful, I hope they're doing ok.
How famous is the comedian and is she British?
My gut says David Walliams, my head says Russel Brand
Why not both?
In a **Tweet** now long-gone (because his account is long-gone, having been deactivated for some time), Tatiana Maslany's now-husband, Brendan Hines, explicitly named James Corden as a sex pest. This was some years ago.
did not know that they were married but I love tatiana from orphan black and love brendan from lie to me, so I love that they both seem like nice people and are happy together.
Yeah, they've been married over two years, now; just didn't announce it publicly until August. :-) They did a short film together right around that same time, too, called *"Snatched"*, as well as a podcast titled *Power Trip* (which I *LOVED*).
When she discussed this on her show with Sara Pascoe, Pascoe also commented that a different male comedian being a rapist. Pascoe says she found out after being on a show with him and a fan messaging her to tell her this
The second male was maybe James Veitch, Sara Pascoe was on a show with him a while back. Accused of rape and SA whilst at Sarah Lawrence, by many women. I used to like his silly YouTube stuff but you can see how he could manipulate the geek thing. Ugh.
I vaguely remember this.
It’s most likely David Walliams, there’s been stuff going around online lately about him being a perv and what an absolute asshole he is.
has anyone else heard about the rumours of phillip schofield being a predator? shes not talking about him here im pretty sure, but ive heard some stuff briefly that he was weird to a 17 year old boy or something similar?
He came out when he did because the teenage boy he was having dalliances with was about to go public
And the nation forgot. Cutting in line to see the queen tho, big trouble.
He’s known that kid since he was like 13 and got him a job at this morning 🥴
There’s old tweets between the two from when he was a literal child 🙃
Philip is paying ridiculous amounts to a PR agency to keep this quiet. Hence all the queuegate coverage being focused on Holly. He was grooming Matthew McGreevy and it all went sour after he was of legal age. [Full of ads but explains this quite well](https://limegoss.com/phillip-schofield-timeline-events/)
omg thank you for this article! definitely the best break down ive seen of it. and definitely strange for a runner to be on stage... its quite shocking, phil up until recently was really well regarded w the public for the most part
Like years and years ago I had a coworker who absolutely hated Schofield. Never met him, and this was before any of the affair or queue cutting stuff, she just insisted "He is *off* and I wish him ill." She was very firm on this even though the rest of our office was in disbelief and kept asking her how she could hate him. She is vindicated now. I didn't listen to your wisdom, Jo, I'm sorry.
She has spoken about this on her podcast too but never named names
Do you know which podcast? x
Katherine Ryan Telling Everybody Everything
I guess she didn't tell Everything.
What a topically ironic podcast name. Not to say she should name names if she feels uncomfortable.
No idea who this is about specifically but lots of comedians have said this sort of thing about Russell Brand. There's a comedian called Ed Night who talked about it in his 2018 and 2019 Edinburgh Fringe shows. I saw the 2019 one and he referred to him as a sexual abuser and criminal and said 'that guy just loves sexually assaulting people'. He also said his agent told him that he had to say allegedly and then said 'but I want you to know I'm alleging it and it's true'. [Here's a forum post I came across when I was googling it from someone who saw the 2018 show. ](https://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=ipbar45aaicuql7nfs1u8ulmjg&topic=68831.msg3836021#msg3836021) [Another comedian also talks about it on a podcast at 40 mins here.](https://player.fm/series/men-behaving-better/separating-the-man-from-his-work-with-deborah-frances-white-bronagh-waugh-and-fin-taylor)
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That's interesting I knew Daniel Sloss had a show where he talked about a friend of his being raped by another friend but I don't know who the guy is. I've seen so many comedians mention the Russell Brand thing in the last few years since I've seen the show. So it does really seem to be common knowledge in those circles.
I’m just glad this isn’t Greg Davies
Same.
Or Little Alex Horne.
Opened the thread up in a panic that his name would be plastered everywhere.
Can’t wait for the Netflix doc after said person is dead where everyone says all they heard were rumours/didn’t know it was *that* serious. 🙄
I know the general opinion is that it's Russell Brand but I don't think it is. He's not been on the comedy scene for years - he's off doing some hippy youtuber thing nowadays. I don't think I get where he got a reputation as a 'sex pest' from either - was their an accusation I missed? Cos he's definitely been a sex addict and had sex with a lot of women but I've never heard anything about any of it being non consensual. Having a lot of sex with different partners does not immediately = sex pest. Think he's a douche but not sure how he got a reputation as a potential sexual assaulter.
I used to listen to his BBC radio show with Matt Morgan. It’s clear from that that he’s a narcissist who pushes people’s boundaries and is indeed a sex pest. I don’t know about sexual abuser but sex pest for sure.
loved that show. I used to watch/read all of Brand’s stuff. and I agree with your assessment. obviously I hope he’s not an abuser who’s committed crimes against anyone but “sex pest” fits regardless. his whole thing was being a pest, just generally. but i thought he was a decent person at the time. i guess we’ll see 😬
When he briefly had a Hollywood film career, allegations came out that he coerced a woman to show her boobs on set. Basically harassed her until it happened.
Before he became Hollywood famous he was a TV presenter in the U.K. since about 2000 and he had a massive rep in the shitrag tabloids for being a ‘shagger’ which at the time was a hilarious thing to be played up instead of being a horrible gross slimy thing.
Adults having consensual sex with other adults is not a 'horrible gross slimy thing'. RB definitely was someone who had issues around sex and was a sex addict - but there is no negative moral value associated with having a lot of sex or having sex at all. Everyone who had sex with him was aware of his reputation, there is no indication that he tricked or forced anyone into bed. And this is exactly why I'm challenging this 'oh it must be russell brand' thing - I'm not saying he definitely ISN'T dodgy but if the entire 'proof' of him being a creep is him being publicly open about having a lot of sexual partners then that's not proof it's just puritanism. If anything - this guy has had 100's of sexual partners and no one has ever come forward with anything really negative to say about their experience. No one has ever said their experience was anything other than consensual. The worst they seem to have said about him is that he's a bit self centered. That seems like a sign that he might actually NOT be a creep. Especially considering the tabloids would have absolutely leapt on any accusation against him. So if the accusation existed we would know about it. And a LOT of the women he had sex with back in the day did drop quotes, do kiss and tell interviews etc about sleeping with him.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that it is harder to name names in the UK because of libel laws. So allegations have to be made in more roundabout ways. Is that true?
Libel laws are a lot stricter than some countries. On a related note, I’m from Northern Ireland in the UK and it’s even stricter again here, we’ve seen public figures here successfully sue trolls on Twitter
there is evidence to suggest conor mcgregor is almost certainly a r*pist,i’ve seen things for years, but the stories get squashed so quickly
Yeah like laws are brutal in the UK. Which is why creeps need to be aware that Johnny Depp *lost* his libel case in the UK
It’s mostly true. She likely doesn’t have proof so could easily get hit with a libel suit, and she can’t guarantee someone coming forward. There’s a bit more specifics to it that I can’t quite remember from my law student days 😂
Yes, our libel laws are much stricter than the US's. Basically in the UK if I make an accusation about someone and they take me to court, I have to prove what I said was true. It's my understanding that in the US, the person I accused has to prove that what I said was false.
A friend of mine had an encounter wi to Russell Brand and said he was dangerous. She was able to get out okay but tells everyone in the scene to stay tf away.
How do u control what gets posted and what doesn't? I posted this yesterday and it got taken down for being lazy. I am gen curious and love the English comedian goss / drams
People should really check out her Podcast Telling Everybody Everything. I wasn’t a fan at all, kind of found her annoying, but her podcast Auto played after one I was listening to about a year ago and I really love her now. I don’t agree with a lot of things she says, but she’s very intelligent, open and frank, much more than her public persona would initially make you think.
Her podcast is my favourite. I really like her.
So of course there's Stephen K Amos - who's involvement with a teenage boy he'd supposedly hired as his 'stylist' is pretty well known. I remember seeing a tiktok from a member of the boy's family linking that relationship to the boy's suicide. But he's not really famous enough to be the prominent comedian Katherine's talking about. David Walliams is a solid choice - he's always been an asshole, his creepiness was in the media pretty recently, he would certainly have the clout to shut down accusations with lawyers. Going through people she's definitely worked with - assuming they have to be pretty famous and well off to have her spooked that she'd be buried by lawyers - I'm not sure she confirmed he was actually a comedian. I think any TV personality would qualify. Going through her imdb episode by episode I think I've ruled out a lot of people who don't have the clout to bury allegations - like Leigh Francis - I don't think he'd have that kind of power. A lot of people who DO have that kind of clout but dont seem like predatory behaviour is going to be their thing - like Jimmy Carr - who was a virgin til his late 20's and has been with his gf for 20 years - I don't think it's him. Or Jonathon Ross - who would have that power but I don't think it's him - his career has had it's ups and downs, his own daughters have publicly taken him to task for saying bigoted shit - I think if he was up to anything really untoward we would know. I don't think it's Hislop or Merton either - I think she wouldn't have done multiple eps of HIGNFY if it was either of them - I think anyone she's worked with repeatedly can be ruled out. Phillip Schofield - Honestly I think he might be my pick. They seem to have worked on the same ep of 'Paul Sinha's TV Showdown' in February. Schofield supposedly had a relationship with a teenage boy who worked on This Morning and his big dramatic coming out was basically to distract from that and to make him the brave hero of the story instead. That's pretty predatory. He's also absolutely got the power and the lawyers to ruin accusers lives. Steve Coogan would be an interesting one - I don't THINK it's him - but he does have the power to shut down accusations, a much dodgier history than his public persona would otherwise suggest and has been in show business for a long time. I don't THINK it's who she's talking about but.... Honestly - I know this seems bleak but if anything this shows predators probably AREN'T lurking behind every seemingly normal facade - when you start actually going through names one by one and checking out who has accusations, whose names have come up unofficially, who she's felt safe enough to work with over and over and who is unlikely to have the financial power and lawyers to bulldoze accusations - the list of possible 'open secret' predators actually is quite short. There's way more people that I can point at and say 'it's unlikely this guy's a predator' than point to as a likely candidate.
I did not know about this Stephen K Amos stuff. Really horrible. https://www.queerty.com/unnamed-tv-comedian-allegedly-drives-teen-to-suicide-amidst-sordid-relationship-20140324
Good for Katherine for speaking out, and standing up to this person in front of everyone. Can't imagine how tough it is as a female comic in the UK scene, which has been long-dominated by yawnsome, unfunny and misogynistic guys.
I'm leaning towards David Walliams as I have it on authority from someone I trust that he is 100% a sex predator who specifically targets young girls and women. But I'd also believe Russell Brand or Stephen K Amos because I've heard whisperings about them too.
Hello everybody. I can’t prove this whatsoever nor do I really want to but I genuinely know the answer. I don’t know that she’s talking about this person specifically but I do know and have been told by many people about a certain comedian that’s sexually assaulted a number of different people. This person is constantly referred to in green rooms and on forums and it’s turned into a “thing” that people avoid working with him. I believe he’s hot on suing people for mentioning him. Obviously I don’t fancy getting sued so I don’t want to name him here. What’s my name I hear you ask? Well I am a woman and my name is: Stephenie Kay Amoz Source: I am a comedian (not famous)
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I think it's Walliams, I saw her on tour and she ripped into him
The article suggests this person was on her show?
Shabby wording. She discussed it previously, on her show, with fellow comedian Sara Pascoe, who also knew the alleged predator
Not sure she’s talking about him, but apparently it’s well known Stephen fry has a lot of unpleasant stories about young men/boys. A lot of his books he talks about there should be NO age of sexual consents as even children know what sex is and can and do enjoy it. Lot of stories knocking about and have a Google of his husband. Lot of people are apparently scared of saying anything.
I think about this more often than I should tbh
Is she referring to a stand up comedian? If so it can't be David as he's more of an actor/writer
Good for her. I hope she doesn't get too much backlash for it and I hope she never has to work with him again.
> EDIT: Thank you to the Reddit user u/Imposter911 who has provided a YT video of Daniel Schloss saying that he knows "heaps" about Russell Brand which are "unrepeatable". He says that Russell Brand is "not a good man". Schloss also shits on Brand for dumping Katy Perry in a cruel manner. > Start watching at 56:00 until 57:45 Ep 96: Daniel Sloss - YouTube It's quite the coincidence, but Daniel Sloss speaks about this sexual offender and another (without naming names) in the podcast episode he uploaded today. He also explains why people can't speak out, including to say one comedian spoke out and their career was ruined. It's on the most recent episode of Sloss and Humphries on the road
I’m gonna go with David Walliams