Informal complaints about Russell Brand at Channel 4 'not properly escalated', investigation finds

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Brand was employed at a time when Channel 4 and production company Endemol knew he was a 'recovering drug addict with a reputation for being 'edgy'', a report says.

Concerns raised informally about Russell Brand's behaviour while he worked on several Channel 4 programmes were 'not properly escalated or adequately addressed', an investigation has found. Brand, 49, was accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse as part of a joint investigation by Channel 4's Dispatches programme, The Times and Sunday Times last year. He has strongly denied all accusations about behaviour which allegedly took place between 2006 and 2013.

' Safeguards missing In addition, Brand was employed at a time when Channel 4 and Endemol knew he was a 'recovering drug addict with a reputation for being 'edgy'' but 'no particular safeguards were put in place to protect Brand, those who worked with him or those who otherwise came into contact with him', including the audience, the investigation found.

 

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