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GB News presenter Beverley Turner has been blasted for welcoming Russell Brand on her show and calling him a \u2018hero\u2019 who is being \u2018attacked\u2019.<\/p>\n
Allegations against the comedian and actor, 48, were revealed today, as he has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by four women, including one who claimed she was 16 years old at the time.<\/p>\n
Brand, who released a video on Friday denying the \u2018very serious allegations\u2019, has been accused by the four alleged victims who claimed they were abused by Brand between 2006 and 2013.<\/p>\n
In the video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Brand said he had been approached by a mainstream TV network and a mainstream newspaper with \u2018extremely disturbing\u2019 correspondence listing \u2018a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.\u2019<\/p>\n
Amid some \u2018stupid stuff\u2019 in the correspondence, including, he said, that he \u2018shouldn\u2019t be able to attack mainstream media narratives,\u2019 were \u2018some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.\u2019<\/p>\n
Presenter Turner, 49, hosts a weekday programme on GB News, titled Bev Turner Today.<\/p>\n
She has now claimed Brand is being \u2018attacked\u2019, writing on X: \u2018You are being attacked @rustyrockets.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Establishment media don\u2019t know what to do with the fact that you have 6million subscribers & generate autonomous, knowing and original content. You are welcome on my @GBNEWS show anytime.<\/p>\n
\u2018We are mainstream media. But we are not Establishment media. There\u2019s a difference. Keep going. This proves you are winning. You\u2019re a hero.\u2019<\/p>\n
Her comments, which were made before the allegations broke via The Times, have sparked outrage.<\/p>\n
One person wrote: \u2018This has aged well. Maybe read the investigation before throwing support behind this man, in a fruitless attempt to get a ratings bump. Rank amateurs, you lot.\u2019<\/p>\n
Another said: \u2018Good God. You would do well to reflect on the seriousness of the situation.\u2019<\/p>\n
Someone else said: \u2018I\u2019m embarrassed for you.\u2019<\/p>\n
A fourth wrote: \u2018Imagine coming to his defence before even hearing the evidence for yourself. That says a lot about you, Beverley, and it says nothing about anyone else. Disgusting.\u2019<\/p>\n
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The bombshell piece by The Times reveals four women making the allegations against Brand, with one saying the St Trinian\u2019s actor raped her up against a wall at his home in Los Angeles and he later apologised over text after she told him: \u2018When a girl say[s] no it means no.\u2019<\/p>\n
A second woman alleges that Brand assaulted her when she was 16 and at school, and he was 31.<\/p>\n
She says she had to punch him in the stomach to make him stop after he \u2018forced his penis down her throat\u2019.<\/p>\n
Another woman claims Brand \u2018forced a finger inside of her\u2019 after becoming angry when he found out she had spoken to an ex-boyfriend, and says that he forced her to brush her teeth so hard and make her gums bleed so she would taste \u2018anonymous\u2019 to him.<\/p>\n
In his video denying the allegations, Brand said: \u2018These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies.<\/p>\n
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\u2018As I\u2019ve written about extensively in my book, I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships that I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I\u2019m being transparent about it now as well.<\/p>\n
\u2018And to see that transparency metastasise into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play.\u2019<\/p>\n
He said there had been \u2018coordinated media attacks\u2019 in the past against people like controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, and that he himself had previously been labelled a conspiracy theorist.<\/p>\n
Brand went on to claim media outlets had been trying to contact people he knows \u2018for ages and ages,\u2019 but \u2018what I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.\u2019<\/p>\n
He claimed he had \u2018witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack.\u2019<\/p>\n
Victim Support offers support to survivors of rape and sexual abuse. You can contact them on 0333 300 6389.<\/p>\n
\u2018Now, I don\u2019t want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I\u2019m being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together.<\/p>\n
\u2018We are obviously going to look into this matter because it\u2019s very, very serious.\u2019<\/p>\n