The BBC mentioned Tuesday two extra folks have come ahead to complain about Russell Brand because the broadcaster launched a assessment into the actor and comic’s conduct.
The BBC was giving an replace to its investigation after British media retailers in September revealed claims by 4 girls that they had been sexually assaulted by Brand between 2006 and 2013, on the top of his fame.
Brand, 48, has denied the allegations.
The comic labored as a BBC radio presenter from 2006 to 2008. The broadcaster mentioned it recorded a complete of 5 complaints in opposition to Brand, together with two individuals who raised complaints and considerations through the time Brand labored there and once more after he left the company.
Another particular person made a separate criticism after Brand’s departure, and two additional folks have come ahead because the BBC launched its investigation in September.
The broadcaster’s assertion from Peter Johnston, its director of editorial complaints, didn’t specify the character of the most recent allegations. But its news web site reported that they’re “understood to relate to his workplace conduct, and are not of a serious sexual nature.”
The claims in opposition to Brand, revealed in September by The Times and Sunday Times newspapers and in a Channel 4 documentary, embody allegations that Brand sexually assaulted one lady throughout a relationship with him when she was 16. Another lady says Brand raped her in Los Angeles in 2012. The accusers haven’t been named.
Referring to allegations from one of many girls that Brand used BBC vehicles to drive her from faculty to his house when she was 16, the broadcaster mentioned it now not had its data of automotive bookings from the time.
It mentioned investigations are ongoing.
“Although my work is in no way complete and therefore I cannot yet reach any conclusions, it would appear that no disciplinary action was taken against Russell Brand during his engagement with the BBC in 2006-8 prior to his departure from the BBC,” Johnston mentioned.
Two U.Okay. police forces, the Metropolitan Police and Thames Valley Police, launched investigations in opposition to Brand after the claims had been revealed.
Brand has issued a press release saying his relationships had been “always consensual.”
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