Following accusations of rape, sexual attack and emotional abuse towards Russell Brand masking a seven-year duration on the top of his repute, which have been unveiled on Saturday in accordance with a The Instances, The Sunday Instances and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, the U.Okay. arm of obese manufacturing corporate Banijay mentioned on Sunday that it has introduced an “urgent” inner probe.
The Instances and Channel 4 investigation into Logo discovered 4 girls alleging that Brand sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013, future he was once a BBC presenter and appearing in Hollywood motion pictures. It additionally spoke of controlling, abusive and predatory habits through the big name, who has vehemently denied wrongdoing.
The Saturday experiences additional integrated accusations that Logo flashed his penis at a runner and pursued girls within the target market for intercourse future running at the presentations EFourum and Bulky Brother’s Bulky Mouth, which have been produced through Endemol for Channel 4. Endemol and Radiance Crew merged in 2015 to mode Endemol Radiance, which Banijay acquired in 2020.
“In light of the very serious allegations raised by Dispatches and The Times/Sunday Times investigation relating to the alleged serious misconduct of Russell Brand while presenting shows produced by Endemol in 2004 and 2005, Banijay U.K. has launched an urgent internal investigation and will cooperate with any requests for information from broadcast partners and external agencies,” the corporate mentioned in a Sunday observation. “We also encourage anybody who feels that they were affected by Brand’s behavior while working on these productions to contact us in confidence.”
The actor and comic preemptively denied the allegations reported through the Instances and Channel 4` in a video posted to his social media platforms on Friday. He mentioned he gained an e mail and a letter from a mainstream TV corporate and a newspaper that indexed a number of “egregious and aggressive” acts that he “absolutely refute[s].”
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working 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,” he mentioned within the video posted to his Twitter and Instagram. “Now 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’m being transparent about it now as well.”
Banijay had issued a primary response to the experiences on Saturday. “Banijay U.K. has robust welfare procedures and policies in place which are aimed at preventing such occurrences and protecting cast, crew and staff,” it mentioned. “Escalation protocols are also in place across all our productions to encourage anyone experiencing or witnessing inappropriate behavior on set or in the workplace to speak up. A global code of conduct, anonymous whistle-blowing line and dedicated senior HR contacts are promoted for all production teams, including on-call sheets.” Concluded the manufacturing vast: “We take our duty of care to our cast, crew and staff extremely seriously.”
Concerning the ancient allegations towards Logo, Banijay U.Okay. had mentioned on Saturday: “While the legacy company, Endemol, did have a code of conduct, support policies and escalation procedures in place during the period in question (2004/2005), they were not as robust as our current processes. We are sorry these women did not feel supported and protected while working on these productions and in light of these serious allegations encourage to them to contact us in confidence.”
