Russell Brand brutally confronted as 'predator' in moment that 'ended UK career'

Russell Brand brutally confronted as 'predator' in moment that 'ended UK career' 'From that moment, he doesn't work in British TV. And from that moment, people in British TV start talking to journalists and you start that very, very, very long journey.' Russell Brand being called out as a "predator" was around the moment that ended his career in the UK before he "scuttled off to America", according to major British TV figure Richard Osman. Brand was found guilty on Thursday of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. The former entertainer was acquitted of two other rape charges and one allegation of attempted indecent assault. The 51-year-old was sentenced on Monday to 10 years and six months in prison. Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan has previously claimed in a BBC TV documentary interview with Louis Theroux that there was a "predator" in the entertainment industry. Ryan said in the 2022 interview with Theroux that she could not name the famous man as it would be a "litigious minefield" but mentioned that she had appeared on a TV programme with him and told him he was a "predator" to "his face". She said: "I, in front of loads of people, in the format of the show, said to this person's face that they are a predator". Ryan reiterated that the allegations were “not my story to tell” as “no one has perpetrated any sexual assaults against me”. It was widely rumoured Ryan had been referring to her time on Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018 alongside Russell Brand, although she never confirmed she was referring to Brand, and she did not name the show she was working on. In 2022, Deadline reported that it was in fact Brand who was furious after Katherine Ryan allegedly called him a “sexual predator” repeatedly during filming for the first season of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in 2018. He quit the show after six episodes and was replaced by Jonathan Ross, according to reports. The alleged remarks were not aired. Today (Tuesday, November 10), major British TV figure Richard Osman named 2018 as the period of time when Brand stopped appearing in UK entertainment. Before penning the hit Thursday Murder Club book series, Osman was formerly the creative director of Endemol UK, the production company behind Deal or No Deal, going on to create and present the BBC One's Pointless quiz show. Speaking on his Goalhanger podcast, The Rest is Entertainment, the TV expert said: "There came a point of reckoning in 2017, 2018 - forgive me if I can't give an absolutely specific date - when the industry understood that this was a person who had committed illegal acts," said Osman. "From that moment, he doesn't work in British TV. And from that moment, people in British TV start talking to journalists and you start that very, very, very long journey. "You see the insanity of how long that journey has taken, he's got very, very good lawyers. The very nature of sexual crimes means they are very, very difficult to prove." On the idea that Brand's behaviour was an 'open secret', Osman and his podcast co-presenter, former Guardian columnist Marina Hyde, pushed back. They said 'some people' knew but Brand's crimes were not common knowledge within the media or entertainment until the 2018 turning point. Osman said: "As a starting point on the idea that everyone knew, yes, everyone knew from 2017, 2018, and that's the point in which he did not work again, and that's when he scuttled off to America... "And at that point, he knew that people knew because he was confronted about it by people in the industry." Hyde added: "We can see that Katherine Ryan, at a certain point, made as clear as she possibly could within the legal bounds, made accusations." Speaking about the guilty verdict of his trial, on the latest episode of her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, Katherine Ryan said: "It really made me feel just quite dysregulated again, caught off-guard, emotional, in awe of the survivors who also had nothing to gain. "They came forward despite Russell Brand having fame, power, money, and a legion of fans ready to attack them." She added: "I will never be someone who like, dances on graves. There has been some justice done today. There's a level of relief, but there's grief alongside relief. "Everything's nuanced, and it was proved in court that a terrible thing happened, and that means that a terrible thing happened. "I just think again and again about people who have been hurt, and who have to carry that, who've carried that around long enough, and will continue to carry that in some way, regardless of what justice is done." Ryan continued on the podcast: "This verdict came because women were hurt, and I worry as well about what happens next. "Because he's obviously spent a long time cultivating this idea that the establishment have invented these claims against him, and he's martyred himself to a growing audience who really still think that it is the courageous survivors who are the villains in this story."