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Russell Brand Co-Hosted ‘Comic Relief’ Months After BBC Received Formal Misconduct Complaint
Russell Brand co-hosted BBC 'Comic Relief' just months after an employee re-raised a decade-old complaint about his conduct.
The revelation shows that the BBC missed repeated warnings about Brand’s behavior, that complaints were not confined to historical events, and that the issues were a matter of live concern given that the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star was still being hired as a presenter by the corporation. The employee raised their concerns for a second time to an external workplace culture review in 2013 led by barrister Dinah Rose, though it is unclear if the BBC was made aware of this follow-up complaint. Barrister Rose’s 2013 workplace culture review, set up in the heat of the Savile scandal, reached excoriating conclusions about BBC staff having a “weary” lack of confidence that justice will be served when raising a grievance.
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