{"id":143273,"date":"2023-09-20T06:52:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/?p=143273"},"modified":"2023-09-20T06:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:52:22","slug":"paramount-removes-russell-brand-comedy-amid-sex-assault-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritywshow.com\/world-news\/paramount-removes-russell-brand-comedy-amid-sex-assault-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount+ removes Russell Brand comedy amid sex assault claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Paramount+ PULLS Russell Brand&#8217;s comedy special &#8216;Live in New York City&#8217; from their streaming service &#8211; after he was accused of rape and sexual assault<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paramount+ pulled Russell Brand&#8217;s 2009 comedy special &#8216;Live in New York City&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brand at the weekend was accused by four women of rape and sexual assault<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He has been\u00a0dropped by a talent agency and blocked from monetizing YouTube<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brand has denied the allegations and insisted that all relations were consensual<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paramount+ has removed\u00a0Russell Brand&#8217;s 2009 comedy show &#8216;Live in New York City&#8217; &#8211; following in the footsteps of YouTube and the BBC in cutting ties.<\/p>\n<p>Brand, 48, was accused over the weekend by four women of rape and sexual assault, as well as extreme emotional abuse and manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>He denies the allegations, insisting all his relationships were consensual, and claiming he is the victim of a &#8216;mainstream media plot&#8217; to derail his YouTube career as a wellness guru.\u00a0On Tuesday, however, Paramount+ took the show down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/06\/75626989-12538753-image-a-28_1695188934510.jpg\" height=\"278\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The show has been taken down, and an error message in its place<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/06\/75626987-12538753-image-a-27_1695188897708.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russell Brand&#8217;s 2009 comedy special was available on Paramount+ until Tuesday morning<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/19\/22\/75614709-12537603-image-a-39_1695158611779.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>YouTube, the video streaming service owned by Google , announced it had suspended &#8216;monetisation&#8217; \u2013 or adverts \u2013 on Brand&#8217;s videos for &#8216;violating our Creator Responsibility policy&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>His most recent stand-up special, &#8216;Russell Brand Re:Birth,&#8217; remains available on Netflix.\u00a0Netflix has not commented.<\/p>\n<p>Paramount+&#8217;s move came after\u00a0YouTube suspended lucrative adverts on his channel, he was dumped by his book publisher and agent, and discarded by charities.<\/p>\n<p>The tour dates for his one-man stage show have been axed, he faces a police investigation and a probe by the Charity Commission.<\/p>\n<p>His back-catalogue of comedy shows is being wiped from Channel 4&#8217;s streaming service and from iPlayer after BBC director general Tim Davie called them &#8216;completely unacceptable&#8217;, with the BBC declaring its former star&#8217;s material &#8216;falls below public expectations&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Davie pledged a full review of Brand&#8217;s time at the corporation from 2006 to 2008, including the presenter&#8217;s alleged use of a BBC chauffeur to collect a 16-year-old schoolgirl from lessons for sex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/06\/75614625-12538753-Brand_is_seen_on_Saturday_leaving_a_gig_in_London_the_last_time_-a-23_1695189575251.jpg\" height=\"807\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brand is seen on Saturday leaving a gig in London &#8211; the last time he was seen in public\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The BBC, where Brand was a host on Radio 2 and a guest on other channels, said the &#8216;limited content featuring Russell Brand on iPlayer and BBC Sounds&#8217; had been removed &#8216;having assessed that it now falls below public expectations&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 4, where Brand burnished his name in the mainstream media fronting a Big Brother spin-off show in the 2000s, also erased his shows including a Celebrity Bake Off episode from its streaming service &#8216;while we look into this matter&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Brand&#8217;s book publisher Bluebird, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, &#8216;paused all future publishing&#8217; with him, while Comic Relief, where he took part in its BBC telethons, said &#8216;it would not be appropriate for us to work with Russell Brand&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Charity Commission is examining Brand&#8217;s role at his addiction foundation the Stay Free Foundation following the revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Brand denies any criminal wrongdoing.\u00a0More women are now coming forward to accuse Brand of sexual misconduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the latest accusations, a woman has alleged Brand taunted her about her looks and sang about the Soham killer Ian Huntley during sex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Lisa&#8217; told The Times of London she was invited to the comedian&#8217;s house in 2008, when she was in her early twenties, with a female friend of hers for a threesome, and because the two women&#8217;s real names sounded vaguely similar to &#8216;Holly and Jessica&#8217;,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brand started making vile jokes about the ten-year-old girls who were murdered by Huntley in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Esme, another woman who spoke to The Times, said she told the comedian &#8216;no&#8217; when he asked her back to his house about 15 years ago, and was shocked when his driver took them there anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/00\/75614897-12537603-YouTube_suspended_lucrative_adverts_on_his_channel_he_was_dumped-a-4_1695166737325.jpg\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>YouTube suspended lucrative adverts on his channel, he was dumped by his book publisher and agent, and discarded by charities. Pictured: On Comic Relief in 2017<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/19\/22\/75614205-12537603-image-a-36_1695158336306.jpg\" height=\"747\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thought to be one of his main revenue streams, he has 6.6million subscribers to his YouTube channel, allowing him to earn an estimated \u00a31million a year from the adverts shown whenever someone watches one of his videos<\/p>\n<p>Thought to be one of his main revenue streams, he has 6.6million subscribers to his YouTube channel, allowing him to earn an estimated $1.2million a year from the adverts shown whenever someone watches one of his videos.<\/p>\n<p>Sara McCorquodale, of social media analysis agency CORQ, estimated &#8216;he is most likely making $2,400 to $4,400 per video&#8217;, and he has been filming up to five each week. He may still be earning cash from merchandising and sponsorships.<\/p>\n<p>And he is likely to be still earning fees from Rumble, a more Right-wing version of YouTube, where his almost-daily posts have a potential of earning up to $99,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>But since the weekend when he was accused of rape and a string of sexual assaults in a Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, followed by an allegation from 2003 being investigated by the Metropolitan Police yesterday, his profile has gone into freefall.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old comic and &#8216;wellness&#8217; guru strenuously denies all the claims and calls them a wild conspiracy by the &#8216;mainstream media&#8217;, saying all his relationships during his &#8216;time of promiscuity&#8217; were fully consensual.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12538753\/russell-brand-paramount-plus-live-new-york-city-removed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount+ PULLS Russell Brand&#8217;s comedy special &#8216;Live in New York City&#8217; 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