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It has been an open secret for a decade or two that russel brand was a real fucked up individual. Last year-ish, Channel 4 et al dug up the receipts on that and did a really solid piece on just what a rapist piece of shit he is and now brand is about as toxic as jimmy saville (so basically wait until the heat dies down, put the rapist back on tv, and explain that he needs to make all his victims sign NDAs. But right now it is hurting his bottom line).
But what wasn't covered is that, again, this was an open secret. Anyone with any awareness of UK media knew brand was a piece of shit and many female comedians outright "vague posted" about him over the years. And a lot of that is because noel fielding and russel brand were infamous for "partying" together, "chasing" teenage girls, making abusive/rape "jokes" to everyone around them, constantly cheating on their girlfriends, etc. They even had some... really fucked up even for the time nicknames.
One of my favorite female british comedians (who deleted the tweet after getting massive amounts of harassment) summed it up with (paraphrasing): "Good job but you forgot his goth doppelganger"
Wow that's fucked up. I stopped keeping up with tv and pop culture stuff over a decade ago now and had no idea about most of this.
In hindsight, I really can't say I'm surprised Feilding and Brand were hanging out, or that both are misogynistic rapists. I knew far too many guys just like them back in the 2010's and it was very normslised behaviour.
A lot of men behave that way and get away with it their whole lives as they aren't famous, so I'm glad that at least it's public information and they're being called out in this case, even if it's not amounting to much beyond that.
Thanks for explaining!