Russell Brand’s tour dates at Windsor, Plymouth, and Wolverhampton appear to be going ahead despite allegations of rape and sexual assault
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The remaining dates of Russell Brand’s Bipolarisation tour appear to still be going ahead as planned despite him facing allegations of rape and sexual assault.
The comedian, 48, is due to appear at the Theatre Royal in Windsor tomorrow night.
It is thought managers were locked in talks this morning about whether to go ahead with the sold-out show, with an announcement expected later today.
But the theatre said there was no further update in response to the MailOnline’s question about whether the show will be cancelled.
Brand then has two more dates remaining of the tour with the next gig scheduled to take place on Friday at the Plymouth Pavilions. It then culminates at The Halls in Wolverhampton next Thursday, September 28.
This afternoon the Met Police announced it was launching an allegation of sexual assault against Brand dating back to 2003.
Russell Brand’s Wembley gig on Saturday went ahead as planned just hours after bombshell allegations of rape and sexual assault surfaced
Plymouth Pavilions is currently in talks with tour promoters and said it would make an announcement in ‘due course’.
The Halls in Wolverhampton is yet to respond.
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Questions have been raised about whether Brand would fulfil the remaining three tour dates after four women accused him of rape, sexual assault and predatory behaviour at the height of his fame between 2006 and 2013, when he was working at BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4 as well as starring in Hollywood films.
ITV News’ UK editor Paul Brand wrote on X: ‘@itvnews understands that the Theatre Royal Windsor is considering cancelling Russell Brand’s gig tomorrow evening, in light of the weekend’s accusations. Managers of the theatre are meeting now, with an update to all ticket holders expected later today.’
In recent days The Theatre Royal has received backlash on X, formerly known as Twitter, for a tweet it published on Thursday on the eve of Brand’s video statement denying the allegations.
The Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4’s joint investigation into the star was published on Saturday.
The message, which is yet to be deleted, reads: ‘If you missed out on tickets to see @rustyrockets SOLD OUT show here in Windsor next Tuesday, we’ve just released additional Box Tickets in the Royal Stalls.
‘If you want to get your hands on them, make sure you’re quick.’
Brand’s Wembley gig went ahead on Saturday just hours before the Dispatches programme on Channel 4 dropped.
The former Big Brother’s Big Mouth presenter looked stony-faced as he arrived at Wembley Park.
A stony-faced Brand spotted arriving at a sold-out Wembley gig after being accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse
Brand departed the Wembley venue after delivering his stand-up routine and finishing the show early ahead of the Dispatches programme airing on Channel 4
Brand arrived an hour late for his show at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre blaming ‘traffic on the M40’, before it ended early ahead of the Dispatches programme.
He appeared to brush aside the allegations as he received a massive round of applause from his audience – with one woman holding a sign saying ‘We stand by you Russell. Stay strong. Stay Free. We love you.’
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Father-of-two Brand told the crowd: ‘I love you. I love you. Thank you. There’s some things I cannot talk about and hopefully you appreciate that I’m gonna give you everything I’ve got.’
He did make a nod to the allegations, however, when a man who looked like him walked past the stage minutes after the gig started, with Brand joking he looked like a body double. ‘That might come in handy,’ he quipped.
Today, his father, Ronald Brand, 80, furiously defended his son of any wrongdoing calling them ‘unproven’ and declaring: ‘Is this seriously the most important thing happening in this world?’.
Brand Snr is the man the star credits for super-charging his ‘rapacious’ sex addiction after he lost his virginity to a prostitute paid for by his father who was sleeping with two more women in a neighbouring bed in Hong Kong.
Brand Sr hit out at ‘unproven’ allegations about his son, and suggested that dark forces including the BBC are pursuing a ‘vendetta’ against him, as more women came forward to accuse him of abuse.
He said: ‘Is this seriously the most important thing happening in this world? Immigrants? Cost of living? 10s of thousands killed in Ukraine? Who is prioritising at BBC News. Who is really driving this vendetta?’.
Brand, 48, is facing allegations of sexual assaults during the height of his fame, over a seven year period between 2006 and 2013
Most women who have accused Brand of assault have not been named, and their identities have been protected under law
He added: ‘With many struggling to pay bills. The unproven accusations of 15 years ago take lead on BBC News?’.
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In another Facebook post he said later: ‘The Russell Brand Vendetta. Like a man who owns an orchard being accused of Stealing an Apple?’
The Times and Sunday Times claim ‘several women’ have come forward with undisclosed allegations about Brand’s behaviour during the early 2000s in wake of their joint investigation with Channel 4.
The latest allegations – which the newspaper says have not been investigated, but will now be ‘rigorously checked’ – follow accusations from four women, including one who claims she was sexually assaulted by Brand during a three-month relationship with him when she was 16 and still at school.
The BBC is now also facing ‘urgent questions’ after it was claimed that Brand, 48, used his company-provided car service to pick the girl up from school.
It comes as both BBC and Channel 4 have launched internal investigations into separate accusations of predatory behaviour by Brand towards staff and audience members during the time of his employment.
Channel 4 has since removed all programmes linked to Brand from its website, including episodes of The Great British Bake Off and Big Brother’s Big Mouth in which he was featured, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Netflix has since been urged to remove his comedy special, titled Re:Birth, from its streaming catalogue.
Russell Brand’s comments in full:
Hello there you awakening wonders. Now this is not the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story I am the news.
I have received two extremely disturbing letters – or a letter and an email – one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff, like my community festival should be stopped and I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to a time when I was in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous.
During that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I am being transparent about it now as well.
And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play.
Particularly when we have seen coordinated media attacks before, like Joe Rogan where he dared to take a medicine the mainstream media didn’t approve of and we saw a spate of headlines of media outlets around the world using the same language.
I am aware that you guys in the comments have been for a while saying ‘watch out Russell, they’re coming for you,’ ‘you are getting too close to the truth’, ‘Russell Brand did not kill himself’.’
I know a year ago there was a spate of articles: Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorists; Russell Brand is right wing.
I am aware of newspapers making phone calls, sending letters to people I know. For ages and ages, it’s been clear to me or at least feels to be there’s a serious and consorted agenda to control these kinds of spaces and these kind of voices.
I need my voice along with your voice. I don’t mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous sexual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious, criminal allegations.
Also its worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently in what seems to be to me a coordinated attack.
Now, I don’t want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations but I feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together.
We are obviously going to look into this matter because it is very, very serious.
In the meantime, I want you to stay close, stay awake but more importantly than any of that, if you can stay free.
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