Russell Brand records video denying ‘serious allegations’ ahead of mystery Channel 4 Dispatches investigation set to air today

Russell Model has taken to his YouTube channel to ‘completely deny’ what he known as ‘critical allegations’ forward of a thriller Channel 4 Dispatches investigation.

The much-anticipated programme is about to air on Saturday evening, with hypothesis constructing over who or what could possibly be on the centre of the investigation.

Rumours on Friday steered the present will talk about numerous celebrities, and was stated to be probably damaging.

The comic, actor and web persona instructed his viewers that there are ‘critical allegations’ made in opposition to him which he ‘completely refutes’.

Model stated he had obtained two ‘extraordinarily disturbing letters’ from a ‘mainstream media TV firm’ and a newspaper.

The letters listed ‘a litany of extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults, in addition to some fairly silly stuff like group competition needs to be stopped, that I should not be capable to assault mainstream media narratives on this channel,’ Model stated.

‘However amidst this litany of astonishing relatively baroque assaults, usually very critical allegations that I completely refute,’ he continued.

‘These allegations pertain to the time after I was working within the mainstream, after I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, after I was within the motion pictures. And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I used to be very, very promiscuous.’

He went on to say relationships he had throughout this time have been ‘all the time consensual’.

‘I used to be all the time clear about that. Then nearly too clear, and I am being clear about it now as properly,’ he stated.

‘And to see that transparency metastasized into one thing legal that I completely deny makes me query, is there one other agenda at play? Significantly once we’ve seen coordinated media assaults earlier than, like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medication that the mainstream media did not approve of, and we noticed a spate of headlines from media retailers internationally utilizing the identical language.’

Model’s assertion got here amid rumours on social media about whether or not a scandal a couple of well-known individual might characteristic within the investigation airing in the present day.

The Channel 4 TV information merely lists the hotly-anticipated programme as ‘New: Dispatches Particular. A 90-minute particular Dispatches investigation’.

A hyperlink to the programme web page comes up with a message saying: ‘That web page can’t be discovered. Both the deal with is wrong or the web page is not accessible.’

Radio Instances journal additionally had the programme on this week’s listings, with the outline: ‘Dispatches – Investigation collection masking points in British society, politics, worldwide present affairs, well being, faith and the surroundings.’

The programme is because of end at 10.30pm, however can even be repeated on Channel 4 on Sunday at 10.50pm and on Monday on its sister channel 4seven at 9pm.

Amongst these posting a picture on X, previously Twitter, of the outline on the Channel 4 TV information was the broadcaster’s information anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who stated: ‘One thing’s up’ earlier than rapidly deleting the message.

The Channel 4 Information anchor and Strictly star’s publish fuelled extra hypothesis in regards to the 90-minute particular. He tweeted an image of the schedule alongside the caption: ‘One thing’s up’ earlier than deleting it round an hour later. 

Sources near Mr Guru-Murthy, 53, who has labored for Channel 4 for 25 years, stated that he was instructed to take it down as the character of the programme is ‘delicate.’

Channel 4 has not but returned MailOnline’s request for remark in the present day. 

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