The BBC apologizes after a report on the actor’s behavior

The BBC apologized to the staff who considered that he could not speak with concerns concerning the behavior of Russell Brand because he was considered “too influential” and they estimated that he ” would always produce and therefore they remained silent “.

The apology occurred while the BBC published the conclusions of an internal review in the time of Brand as a presenter of BBC Radio 2 and 6 music between 2006 and 2008.

The investigation considered eight complaints, two of which were made while he was working for the company.

One of them, who linked him to urinate in a cup and behaving aggressively during his radio program 2, was officially recorded at the time, and the BBC now admitted that it was ” not effectively treated “.

The BBC launched the investigation after distinct allegations in 2023 of several women who accused the actor and rape actor, sexual assault and emotional abuse.

Brand denied all the allegations and said that his relations were “always consensual”.

Thursday’s report revealed that “only one official complaint was filed with the inappropriate conduct of Brand in the workplace” during his passage on the air, and beyond, there was “no evidence that his behavior had been formally increased with management at the time “.

But the BBC recognized that the brand was “perceived as too influential” for the staff to complain.

Many of the people interviewed for the internal investigation “believed, wrongly or wrongly, that the Russell brand would always make its way and therefore they remained silent,” according to the report. They also thought that he “had the support of station management”.

Although an informal complaint was also filed, the report said: “It is clear that there were other concerns, but the people involved felt incapable or did not want to lift them at the time because they thought they were That the concerns would not be taken seriously and that complaint systems were not as clear as they are now. “

The journal also revealed that Brand had consensual sex with a winner of the competition of his 6 music broadcast on the premises of the BBC.

Addressing the exam team, this person said that even if what had happened was consensual, they now thought that “the brand had abused their position and took advantage of it”.

The report added that there were “management failures” and “there should have been better systems to ensure that the unacceptable behavior of the brand was quickly taken up and tackled”.

Channel 4, where Brand also worked as a presenter, published his own internal exam results in March 2024. His boss apologized to a former employee After the investigation discovered that he had not investigated a “serious” complaint against the star in 2009.

The brand has been interviewed three times by police since September 2023.

In November 2024, Metropolitan police sent the Crown prosecution service A proof file, but the prosecutors have not yet decided to bring charges.

An employee of the BBC filed an official complaint with a manager in 2007 after Brand urinated in a cup in the Radio 2 studio, then threw angry objects when one of the production teams made a mistake During a second show.

The report indicated that it was likely that it was then raised verbally with the radio controller 2 at the time, Lesley Douglas, although “does not remember these concerns never raised with it”.

Douglas denied that Brand has ever sought to have an influence on her and said that her relationship with him similar to what she had with other presenters on the station.

The BBC shed light on the 2007 incident in a press response at the time, according to the report, when a spokesperson told The Independent that Brand had urinated in a cup “and that someone showed him where the toilet was. “

“Unfortunately, this incident has not been taken seriously at the moment,” said the report.

Another staff member said they had informally concerned about Brand’s conduct in 2006 and 2007, according to the report.

Someone else allegedly alleged that the brand “slipped his fingers into his pants and underwear and pulled them towards him” in a corridor during the BBC radio production set, but did not complain at the time.

The even staff of the staff who were “the most closely” involved in his emissions described his behavior in general as “promiscuity or out of control”, but said that they “testified nothing non-consciousness or potentially illegal”.

Another complaint was filed with the BBC about an incident in Los Angeles in 2008.

Brand would have followed “Olivia” in a bathroom and showed his penis at his moments before starting to pre -record his radio program.

The woman, who was not an employee of the BBC but who worked in the same building, did not complain at the time, thinking “she would not be believed”.

The report found no evidence that anyone in the direction of the BBC is aware of Olivia’s experience at the time.

In 2019, a member of BBC News staff increased the incident with its line director after Olivia confirmed that she wanted to go further.

“It is likely that those who were involved in climbing the complaint in 2019 believed that nothing could be done because it was more than ten years later,” said the report.

He concluded that the complaint process was “inadequate”, as is the treatment of the complaint of 2019, and the BBC apologized to Olivia.

Another of the complaints of the report was filed by a woman named Alice, who said that a car supplied by the BBC for Brand recovered it and took him to his home when he had thirty and that she was a 16 -year -old schoolgirl.

The report concludes that he was unable to check these claims, but it was “unlikely that the cars described by Alice are BBC or BBC management cars, driven by heating”.

The report and Alice agree that if Brand has “persuaded a taxi or a pre-reserved mini-cabin in his name by the BBC to make these trips, it is likely that it is done without the BBC staff who reserved his cars For him in advance “.

The examination cost £ 662 062 062 and was led by the director of BBC’s editorial complaints and criticisms, Peter Johnston.