A SCOTTISH comedian has claimed that female comedians within the industry warned others about Russell Brand in WhatsApp groups.
accused by four women of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013Brand also faces allegations of controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour, following a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss was the only person on Channel 4's Dispatches documentary who did not conceal his identity.Sloss claims female comedians set up WhatsApp groups to warn others of those they have worked with – including Brand – from uncomfortable experience to predatory behaviour.READ MORE:He added that there were “many stories with varying degrees of severity” he had heard from a number of people in the comedy circuit.
“I'm stood in bars with agents, promoters, channel commissioners and I'm hearing these allegations and rumours with Russell in the same room, and later on he would be on a movie, on a television show, he would be hosting something. He was still being employed.”He said: “Questions that should have been asked about Russell before he was employed for certain things, I do not believe they were asked.
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