PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Will this clip from Brand’s own show be what finally sinks him? Comedian admitted exposing himself to a woman in a BBC building in Los Angeles

Responding to allegations of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse made by four anonymous women in Channel 4’s Dispatches and The Times and Sunday Times, Russell Brand admitted he was ‘very promiscuous’ at the time.

But he insisted the allegations of these “extremely blatant and aggressive attacks” were untrue because the sexual relationships he had were “absolutely, always consensual.”

Yet it appears that Brand’s abhorrent behavior was not always consensual.

Because on Thursday evening it emerged that he had admitted to exposing himself to a woman in a BBC building in Los Angeles.

The woman, known as Olivia, worked in a company that shared offices with the BBC.

She claims she went to the toilet to get medicine, but discovered Brand was standing behind her.

She claims he said, “Oh, I think you’re fine. . . I’m going to fuck you.’

She replied, “No, you’re not.”

Then, she claims, Brand took out his genitals “and served it to me like you would serve food to someone.” The door was closed, she felt trapped and scared. He left when his colleagues knocked on the door.

She texted a BBC employee about the incident and was told Brand was already bragging about it in the studio. He then recorded a 35-second conversation with co-host Matt Morgan and told Brand: “It’s been 25 minutes since he showed his dick to a lady.”

A laughing Brand replies: ‘Very easy to judge! Very easy to judge!’

Morgan ends by saying, “He was told to ring a bell, a few minutes later he’s showing off his dick,” accompanied by Brand’s laughter.

The pre-recorded item was broadcast on the BBC in June 2008.

Olivia found the original clip from the show and gave it to Sky. It’s all over social media now.

Is this proof, broadcast on his own radio show, that Brand exposed himself to her? That there was nothing “consensual” about Brand pulling out his stuff after blocking her in a toilet and saying he wanted to fuck her?

Could it be the BBC radio clip that finally sinks Russell Brand?

Amazon in U-turn

Just nine months since Jeremy Clarkson was universally condemned for his awful Meghan Markle column – including by Amazon, which considered canceling it – Clarkson’s Farm has become the only streaming TV show to crack the top 40 most-watched shows of the past year. year state.

A huge hit, with 4.6 million viewers to watch Series Two, for, er, streaming giant Amazon Prime Video.

Prada’s little black mess

Fashionistas are beyond excited about Prada’s latest offering, the Little Black Dress. . . so original that it was first created by Coco Chanel in 1926.

But the unflattering, crossed breasts, exposed armpits, too-short crumpled LBD that the normally intoxicatingly curvy Scarlett Johansson wore for the Prada show in Milan made her look more like an Olympic shot putter. As Coco would say: sacré bleu!

Former US Vice President Al Gore calls Rishi’s new green policies “shocking” and accuses him of making the wrong decision on climate change.

Well, we won’t be listening to any more lectures from American eco-warriors once Britain has cut its CO2 emissions by 50 percent. . . and the US with zero!

Sharon has to weigh in!

Skinny Sharon Osbourne isn’t the only one shocked by her two stone weight loss with new slimming drug Ozempic. Fans are also shocked. “I didn’t want to get so thin!” she cried.

The only good news for Sharon is that half of people who use the drug regain their full weight within six months of stopping.

A bit rich in life, colleague Zac Goldsmith, who has branded the Prime Minister’s new net zero policy – ​​which cuts costs for ordinary people – as ‘reprehensible’.

The multi-millionaire has never had to worry about the price of a new car, an energy bill or a new boiler in his life.

The shining star of the King and Queen’s state visit to Paris was Camilla. She beamed. Don’t take my word for it. The Sydney Morning Herald, read by republican, excited Australians, concluded: ‘Queen Camilla’s quiet chic conquers Paris.’

Inmate Daniel Khalife, who allegedly escaped from Wandsworth prison by tying himself under a van, only to be apprehended on a bicycle three days later, has pleaded not guilty.

It proves one thing: the lag has a sense of humor.

Westminster Wars

The Prime Minister’s decision to end ‘unacceptable costs’ for net-zero income families drew two absurdly hyperbolic responses: ‘With his party in trouble, the planet never stood a chance,’ and Rishi’ sold his soul for the chance to stay in office. .’

No prizes for guessing they were published in the Guardian.

Keir Starmer was in France for a love affair with President Macron when details leaked about his secret plans to ‘reverse’ Brexit and have Britain rejoin the EU as an ‘associate member’.

Starmer thinks bashing Brexit will win him the election – 17.4 million Britons who voted for it may disagree.

Don’t be fooled by Becks’ specifications

The laugh-out-loud moment has to be a ‘very serious’ David Beckham striking a scientific pose to promote his new range of specs.

He stares deep into a battered old leather-bound tome and tries to look like he can actually read.

Former BBC chief executive Katy Searle asks Newsnight: ‘Is it really right to spend £13 million on a program that is only watched by 300,000 people?’

To which we as license fee payers might add: ‘Is it right that we pay Newsnight’s part-time presenters Kirsty Wark, Victoria Derbyshire and Faisal Islam a combined three-quarters of a million to produce the most excruciatingly woke political show on the BBC?

Much controversy because Braun uses a transgender model – with surgical scars from breast removal – in an advertisement for a men’s groomer. Far more scandalous is the Dove Men+Care advert currently showing at football matches promoting men’s health.

It promises that its deodorant “guarantees 72 hours of protection against sweat and odor.” What? Don’t shower for three days? An ad that really doesn’t pass the sniff test.

Amy is Strictly brave

Midway through chemotherapy for breast cancer – and as her blonde hair falls onto her pillow every morning – Strictly’s Amy Dowden posts a video of friends and family shaving her head, promising: ‘I’m not focusing on the hair I’m losing right now but the I’m going to get her back.’

And your army of fans will be cheering you on every step of the way, Amy.

For anyone looking to cheer up, watch Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins on Channel 4, where discredited former Health Secretary turned reality TV star Matt Hancock is humiliated and smashed to smithereens in a Vietnamese jungle.

The torrential rain makes the weak Matt look even more soggy than usual. It’s free to watch, but I’d pay good money to see it on loop.

With Barbie and Ken ‘movie dolls’ worth £44.99 flying off the shelves of toy stores and the film available online for £19.99, there’s already plenty of pink hysteria! I’m not the only one who swears that I will never watch this silly, fake women’s liberation film, nor will I allow anyone to come to my film club on a Monday night.

Time for a #NotMeToo Barbie movement that ensures that gullible girls are not lured into the waking world of plastic role models.