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Channel 4 Found “No Evidence” Top Execs Knew of Russell Brand Allegations

The British network that helped drive Brand's early fame, after an internal probe, did conclude a former employee made a "serious and concerning allegation" against the actor and TV host in 2009 that was not "investigated as it should have been."

The probe was opened after Channel 4’s Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches program, which investigated sexual assault and misconduct allegations against the actor and TV host, aired on Sept. 16 of last year. The Channel 4 report unveiled Tuesday also addressed whether senior network execs were aware of allegations against Brand when the Dispatches program was being researched and produced after going into development in Dec. 2019. “No record was found of concerns being raised within Channel 4, or in public, at the time of Russell Brand’s casting in the Celebrity Bake Off Stand Up to Cancer special or after its broadcast in March 2019,” the British network added in its report.

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