Russell Brand: Ofcom rejects complains C4 investigation was unfair

 

Russell Brand: Ofcom rejects complains C4 investigation was unfair

Broadcast controller Ofcom won't be chasing after protests that Channel 4's examination concerning Russell Brand was unreasonable on the entertainer.

The news comes as the media announced the star was last week talked with by Scotland Yard criminal investigator over claims of 'three non-ongoing sexual offenses'.

Brand has said he 'totally discredits' the criminal claims that he was associated with 'very offensive and forceful assaults', adding that his connections were 'consistently consensual'.

Ofcom got 183 grumbles that the Channel 4 Dispatches program which circulated in September was 'substantially deceptive'. One more seven submitted a similar question about the recurrent the following day.

At that point, the guard dog said: 'most of complainants felt the program was uncalled for to Russell Brand.'

In another announcement delivered today, Ofcom said that 'after cautious evaluation' it has chosen not to follow up the grumblings further as 'they didn't raises issues justifying examination'.

Dispatches' joint examination with Times papers - watched by 1.8million watchers - conveyed claims from four ladies that Brand physically attacked them at the level of his notoriety, somewhere in the range of 2006 and 2013.

Brand, 48, has proposed the reports are essential for a traditional press mission to quiet his disagreeing political perspectives.