voices of the people who are relatively powerless. only been locked up for four days and yet already... russell brand made his name on channel 4'sd claims that staff helped pick out girls for him from the audience. it felt like we were essentially taking lambs into slaughter. channel 4 says it has no evidence that any of the alleged incidents were brought to its attention at the time. oh, no, this is andrew sachs�* answer phone? and the bbc, which parted company with russell brand after a scandal over offensive voice mail messages, has also said it's making urgent inquiries. meanwhile, russell brand has issued a statement in vehemently denying all the allegations. i was very, very promiscuous. now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships i had were absolutely always consensual. i was always transparent about that then. and to see that transparency metastasised into something criminal, that i absolutely deny, makes me question, is there another agenda at play? however, in 2020, a woman the programme called alice, who said a relationship had begun when she was 16 and that she'd been assaulted by brand, contacted his age