British comedian and actor Russell Brand has lost his ability to make money on YouTube, the BBC has dumped some shows starring the star from its streaming platforms and scheduled tours in the UK and Australia have been cancelled while investigations into allegations of sexual abuse continue. The attack via Brand. or raped several women at the height of his fame between 2006 and 2013, which he vehemently denied.
The Australian leg of Brand’s “Bipolarisation” comedy tour was cancelled on Wednesday, The Daily Telegraph reported, two days after promoters announced that all of his upcoming UK shows, adding a sold-out performance at the Royal Windsor Theatre, had been postponed.
YouTube has blocked Brand from making money on its 6. 6 million-subscriber channel and will no longer allow advertisers to sponsor its videos after the platform said Tuesday it violated its “creator duty policy. “
The BBC has also removed some of its programs starring Brand from its iPlayer and Sounds sites because they “no longer meet public expectations,” the channel said on Tuesday.
The Pan Macmillan Bluebird logo has made the decision to “suspend all long-term publishing” with Brand, the publisher said in a statement to Forbes on Monday, news that comes as the BBC, Channel 4, production company Banijay and the Metropolitan Police say they have opened an investigation into the star’s remedy towards women.
Brand released Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions with Pan Macmillan in 2018 and a new edition was scheduled to be released in May 2024, according to Variety, but Bluebird did not specify where the future of the book lies.
Four have accused Brand of sexual assault or rape as part of a joint investigation published through The Times of London, The Sunday Times and public broadcaster Channel Four over the weekend.
Since then, more women have made allegations about Brand’s habit that “have not been investigated and will now be rigorously verified” since the report’s release, the Times said Monday.
The Metropolitan Police told the Times on Monday that it won a report of an alleged 2003 sexual assault in Soho and encouraged “those who believe they have been sexually assaulted” to touch police.
The literary firm Tavistock Wood abandoned Brand as a consumer this weekend and the Women of Trevi.
Representatives for Branded Films, Brand’s collectively controlled company, or his legal representation did not respond Monday to Forbes’ request for comment.
A resurfaced clip of the Russell Brand Show on BBC radio went viral after Brand, who was in his early thirties when the clip aired in 2007, advised a 15-year-old to call to host a sexually-themed birthday party.
Brand’s social media accounts have been grim since Friday, when he preemptively issued a call for an investigation into his case beyond a “coordinated attack” through the media. He refuted the “extremely blatant and competitive attacks” opposing him and said that while he blatantly spoke about his “very, very promiscuous” way of life at the height of his fame, their relationships were “absolutely, at all times, consensual. “
Four women accused Brand of sexual misconduct as part of the investigation, which media reports said included conversations with many resources and the collection of “substantial data to corroborate his allegations. “One woman, who claims Brand raped her against a wall of her Los Angeles home in July 2012, before seeking immediate redress at a rape repair center, told the Times that Brand said he was “very remorseful” after she told him he had deserved her. The woman, who was unaware of the investigation, said she felt like a “survivor” after speaking publicly about the incidents. Three other women also accused Brand of sexual assault and others have since come forward, the outlet reported. Brand’s father, whom the comic credits with triggering his sex addiction by paying for it. After losing his virginity to a sex worker, he said Tuesday that the media was having a “vendetta” against his son and called the allegations against him “unproven. “
“Now I don’t feel like a victim, I feel like a survivor; I am satisfied to be on the other side. I’m stronger,” the woman who accused Brand of rape told the Times.
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