BBC comes under fire for ‘passing the buck’ on Russell Brand: Comedian boasted his boss was ‘incredibly tolerant’ of his sexual behaviour

The BBC was implicated of ‘buck-passing’ over Russell Brand today as it emerged he boasted his employers were ‘exceptionally tolerant’ of his sexual behaviour at work and he freely joked about raping ladies and kids.

The founded guilty rapist stated Lesley Douglas, the BBC’s controller of Radio 2 and 6 Music at the height of his popularity in the 2000s, had ‘enjoyed me and offered me great deals of space, so I took that space’.

Brand name declared this permitted him to utilize BBC handicapped toilets for sex with female 6 Music competitors winners and ‘communicating in an intimate way’ with a female newsreader as she ‘racily recited massacres and football ratings’.

His behaviour was so brazen that he freely joked about raping and eliminating a females and making love with audience members, homeless individuals and kids.

An internal BBC evaluation exposed there had actually been 8 grievances about Brand and his improper behaviour, consisting of 2 made while he worked for the corporation in between 2006 and 2008. No action was taken.

Sinead Haysom, a work attorney and partner at Arbor Law, stated the BBC appeared to have actually been ‘buck-passing’ when reacting to concerns about Brand.

‘It is informing that the BBC’s very first reaction was to mention that Brand “worked for a number of different organisations, of which the BBC was one”,’ she stated.

‘Its own evaluation later on discovered that junior personnel felt there was no point grumbling about Brand. In my viewpoint, that preliminary reaction seems like buck-passing.’

In his narrative, Booky Wook 2, Brand composed: ‘Lesley Douglas was exceptionally tolerant of my behaviour at Radio 2.

‘If you listen to old 6 Music podcasts, you will discover that all the competitors winners that entered the studio while we relay were female. This is since there was an extra element to the reward which might never ever be clearly mentioned due to the BBC’s stiff policy restricting the abuse of the handicapped lavvy.’

He included: ‘Lesley enjoyed me and offered me great deals of space, so I took that space. We started to end up the newsreaders, tossing to the news in a childish style, goading them into consisting of daft words in the publication.

I went too far and began declaring that throughout the news I ‘d be under the desk, connecting in an intimate way with the newswoman as she racily recited massacres and football ratings. She was a bit upset.’

Douglas had an ‘practically compulsive’ dedication to the comic, fellow DJ Paul Gambaccini later on declared.

It came as Andy Burnham applauded the ‘nerve’ of the victims as cops get ready for a flood of additional accusations versus the rapist comic. The PM stated today: ‘It’s terrible what Russell Brand has actually done.’

The BBC apologised once again last night after Brand was founded guilty of rape and 3 other severe sexual offenses. More charges might yet follow.

Comic Brand signs up with the long list of BBC speakers who have actually been founded guilty of major sexual upseting, consisting of Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Jonathan King and Chris Denning – among the initial Radio 1 speakers.

A BBC spokesperson stated of Brand’s convictions: ‘Firstly, the ideas of everybody at the BBC are with the brave females who stepped forward and informed their stories which resulted in a conviction in this case.

‘There can be no location for the abuse of power. Throughout the market, we need to interact to make sure that anybody who suffers at somebody else’s hand feels able to report it, that their issues are taken seriously which they are listened to.

‘We released an in-depth report in January 2025 into how problems about Russell Brand’s conduct were managed. This took a look at 8 accusations of misbehavior while he worked here in between 2006 and 2008.

‘It was of excellent issue to us that some individuals felt not able to raise issues about Brand’s behaviour. We apologised to those affected, for both the culture and failings at the time, and we repeat that apology once again today.’

Channel 4 and MTV did not comment.

Russell Brand joked about raping a lady in a video just erased from YouTube when claims about his abuse emerged in 2023.

Brand name was talking to Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2013 where he declared he was a ‘ordinary chap … from a single-parent household’ who ended up being a ‘quite extensive show-off’.

Herring and the audience roared with laughter when the star broke the silence and stated: ‘Oh I’ve raped somebody as soon as’ and ‘eliminated her after’.

In the very same video he likewise joked about the ancient Greeks making love with kids while developing mathematics, stating: ‘They didn’t mind it did they. They were smart weren’t they.’

He then imitated making love and stated: ‘I’ve done another triangle. I’m f *** ing a youngster. This is fantastic. F ** k the kid with the triangle. No that’s excessive.’ He likewise joked about grownups such as sitters carrying out sex acts in front of kids, including him.

In the erased YouTube interview with fellow comic Herring, Brand, who likewise called himself a ‘sex narcissist’, states: ‘Look at the ladies in this space. Even a strong quote would be that I’ve slept with half of them. Presently.’

Later on he was inquired about utilizing homeless individuals to promote his Messiah trip and whether as a millionaire comic it was ‘exploitative’.

Brand name then stated ‘you ought to have seen what occurred after the video’ and mimed making love with them and stubbing out a cigarette on them.

‘Who’s going to care? Who are you going to inform? If society cared you would not be homeless,’ he stated.

Brand name is yet another sex culprit who worked for the BBC.

As much as 450 youths were mistreated and attacked by another ‘face of the BBC’ Jimmy Savile.

Authorities taped 199 criminal offenses in 17 police locations in which Savile was a suspect, amongst them 31 claims of rape.

The criminal activities extended from 1955 to 2009 and claims consisted of the abuse of frantically ill kids and necrophilia with remains at consisted of Leeds General Infirmary mortuary.

BBC managers were implicated of staging numerous cover-ups to safeguard Savile. who dedicated the offenses at healthcare facilities and places throughout the nation consisting of BBC Television Centre.

Most just recently, in 2024 previous news anchor Huw Edwards was handed a suspended prison sentence for making disgusting photos of kids.

Chris Denning, among the initial Radio 1 speakers, who was a routine at ‘The Walton Hop’ with King, was imprisoned for 18 months for gross indecency with a kid and in 1988 for 3 years for indecent attack on a 13-year-old young boy and ownership of indecent pictures.

In 2008, he was extradited from Britain to Slovakia, where he was imprisoned in October for 5 years for producing kid porn.

In 2014 Denning was imprisoned for 13 years after he confessed to an overall of 40 sexual offenses dedicated from 1967 to 1987 connecting to 26 male victims, the youngest of whom was 9 years of ages.

In 2016, Denning was provided another 13 years after he pleaded guilty to 21 sex offenses versus 11 kids in between 1969 and 1986, the youngest of whom was aged 8.

In 2007 star Chris Langham, star of the BBC’s ‘In The Thick of It’ was condemned of downloading 15 kid sexual assault images and videos.

Among the videos revealed the ‘vicious brutalisation of an eight-year-old woman.’

He was sentenced to 10 months in jail and was put on the sex culprits sign up for 10 years.

In 2015 the BBC was criticised for putting all the programs of ‘In The Thick of It’ back in on the BBC iPlayer.

In 2013 Stuart Hall, the analyst and speaker of ‘It’s A Knockout’ was imprisoned for 30 months for 2 offenses of indecent attack versus a lady of 13 and another versus a lady under 16.

The list below year famous kids’s speaker and performer Rolf Harris was imprisoned 5 years and 9 months after he was founded guilty of 12 charges of indecent attack versus 4 ladies – consisting of one aged 7.

Veteran Radio 1 speaker Dave Lee Travis was founded guilty of attacking an adult scientist on the Mrs Merton program in 2014 and was sentenced to 3 months in jail, suspended for 2 years.

David Roberts, Senior Crown Prosecutor in the London Rape and Serious Sexual Assault Unit stated: ‘Russell Brand was predatory and utilized his star status to devote sexual criminal activities.

‘He was a manipulator with a pressing desire to get what he desired no matter whether permission was offered or not.

‘As his profession removed, he took chances to attack the females around him. His techniques differed, at the centre of every attack was an abuse of power and sexual greed, with a total neglect for the effect of his actions.

I want to thank all the ladies in this case for their guts in stepping forward and seeing this sexual abuser brought to trial.’