Rhian Sugden says Russell Brand joined ‘no more Page 3’ campaign after failing to ‘s**g his way through’ its list of models as she discusses their short-lived fling amid allegations of rape and sexual assault

Rhian Sugden damaged her silence and mentioned her quick lived fling with Russell Model after Saturday’s bombshell dispatches documentary.  

The present noticed the 48-year-old comic accused of sexual assaults and abusive and predatory behaviour between 2006 and 2013, when he was on the top of his fame. He has denied the allegations.

Glamour mannequin Rhian, 37, who insisted nothing untoward occurred once they have been collectively, did nevertheless declare Russell joined the No Extra Web page 3 marketing campaign in 2014 after failing to ‘s**g his method via’ its checklist of fashions.

The Get Him To The Greek star beforehand got here out in help of the campaign claiming the love of a ‘good lady’ [wife Laura Brand] had slain his ‘sexist teenage’ self.   

Taking to X, which was previously referred to as Twitter, Rhian wrote: ‘I had reporters and Dispatches knocking on my mother and father door months again asking for data on Russell Model as we briefly dated once I was youthful.

‘He was at all times very nice to me and handled me properly.

‘Regardless of him making an attempt to s*** his method via different web page 3 ladies and getting declined he quickly went full circle and joined a “No Extra Web page 3 marketing campaign” to get us shut down’.

Including: ‘I am unable to touch upon the allegations which were made towards him, I’ve no scoop on the fella besides his hair used to odor unhealthy and he undoubtedly wasn’t the one which bought away.(sic)’

One lady has alleged Model raped her in his Los Angeles dwelling, whereas one other accused him of grooming her as they have been concerned in an allegedly ’emotionally abusive and controlling relationship’ for 3 months when she was simply 16 and nonetheless at college, and he was 31.

A 3rd accuser claimed the comedian sexually assaulted her whereas she labored with him in Los Angeles, and that he threatened to take authorized motion if she instructed anybody else about her allegation, and a fourth detailed the alleged sexual, bodily and emotional abuse she was subjected to.

Allegations about Russell’s ‘sinister’ behaviour in direction of girls have been an ‘open secret’ amongst TV and radio executives, it has been claimed.

Bosses on the BBC and Channel 4 are accused of turning a blind eye in direction of the entertainer’s behaviour whereas he labored for them as a presenter between 2006 and 2013.

The broadcasters have insisted they took all mandatory steps over him, however executives may nonetheless be known as earlier than a Authorities choose committee the place MPs will grill them over what they knew.

Model has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by a number of girls, together with one who says she was 16 on the time. 

His behaviour is alleged to have been widespread data amongst feminine performers on the comedy circuit, who’re mentioned to warned one another about him.

rand has posted a video on YouTube and Twitter refuting the allegations and insisted relationships on the time of his promiscuity’ have been ‘consensual’.

Nevertheless, his angle in direction of girls is alleged to have been an open secret in radio and TV manufacturing, in line with sources who briefed The Sunday Occasions. 

He additionally has a historical past of creating high-profile and controversial remarks about girls on his reveals – together with calling newsreader Andrea Simmons a ‘intercourse bomb’ and describing her as ‘erotic’ and saying he wished to ‘go underneath the desk’ whereas she was studying the information.

In 2008 a ferocious public backlash was sparked after Model and Jonathan Ross known as the much-loved Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs throughout Model’s present and left lewd messages on his answerphone – together with bragging about intercourse with Sachs’s granddaughter Georgina Baillie, with whom he had a short relationship.

Based on The Sunday Occasions many consider the BBC ought to been awake to the considerations about Model’s behaviour on his present properly earlier than the Sachsgate scandal.

Reportedly, a critical grievance was made by BBC employees to the station’s Controller Lesley Douglas about Model’s behaviour within the studio, in December 2007.

The Occasions has reported that the grievance adopted an ‘alarming show of aggression and disrespect’ by the radio host the place he hurled objects in a match of rage.

It additionally reported he urinated in a bottle in full view of manufacturing employees and a visitor – who ‘gave the impression to be a minor’ – and had been invited to seem on Radio 2 by a charity.

This alleged grievance and any others that had been made weren’t talked about in subsequent official studies into Sachsgate.

Douglas’ attorneys have mentioned she ‘didn’t at any time encourage, allow and/or fail herself to take any sufficient steps inside her energy with regard to the conduct of Russell Model of which she was conscious’.

‘She is presently unable to offer any additional data which can be related to the issues raised on this article as a result of obligations owed by her to her former employer,’ her attorneys added.

Model left the BBC after the intense editorial breach in 2008 as did Douglas.