In a joint investigation by The Sunday Times<\/a> and Channel 4\u2019s Dispatches, four women alleged sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, and Brand was also accused of predatory, controlling, and abusive behaviour. Brand has strongly denied the allegations.<\/p>\n Certain content involving Brand has now been removed from both BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, including an instalment of QI on which he was a panellist and a podcast episode in which he appeared alongside Joe Wicks.<\/p>\n In a statement sent to RadioTimes.com<\/a> a BBC spokesperson said that the content \u201cnow falls below public expectations\u201d of the broadcaster.<\/p>\n The statement in full reads: \u201cThe BBC does not ban or remove content when it is a matter of public record unless we have justification for doing so.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is limited content featuring Russell Brand on iPlayer and Sounds. We\u2019ve reviewed that content and made a considered decision to remove some of it, having assessed that it now falls below public expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n The decision comes after Channel 4 also removed programming that featured Brand<\/a>, including episodes of The Great British Bake Off and Big Brother box sets.<\/p>\n BBC Director General Tim Davie has also ordered a review of his career at the corporation, where Brand worked in radio from 2006 until 2008.<\/p>\n In a Q&A with BBC staff, Davie called the allegations \u201cvery serious\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely right that we\u2019ve said, along with organisations, that we urgently look at the issues that have been raised, and that goes across a number of organisations including the BBC.\u201d<\/p>\n Davie said there would be \u201cfull transparency\u201d with the review \u201cdigging into anything that we\u2019ve got there\u201d.<\/p>\n The review will also look at Brand\u2019s alleged use of a BBC car, which one of his alleged victims claims he had sent to take her from her school to his house when she was 16 years old and he was 30.<\/p>\n RadioTimes.com\u00a0<\/strong>has contacted the BBC for comment.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, earlier today YouTube announced that Brand was suspended from monetising his content on the platform using adverts, where his channel has over 6 million subscribers.<\/p>\n In a video posted to social media the day before Dispatches aired, Brand said he \u201cabsolutely denies\u201d the allegations, saying his relationships were \u201calways consensual\u201d.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI\u2019ve received two extremely disturbing letters, or a letter and an email, one from a mainstream media TV company and one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuff, like my community festival should be stopped, I shouldn\u2019t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel, but amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.<\/p>\n \u201cThese 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. As I\u2019ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. 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\u2019m being transparent about it now.\u201d<\/p>\n RadioTimes.com<\/strong> contacted representatives for Russell Brand for further comment.<\/p>\n This is happening pic.twitter.com\/N8zIKLbJN2<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) September 15, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>![\"Russell](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/09\/russell-brand-be5fbe2.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Russell")
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