Sharon Osbourne didn’t hold back in expressing her views on Russell Brand following serious allegations of sexual assault against the comedian.
The Get Him to the Greek actor, 48, is currently facing accusations of rape and sexual assault that are said to be from a period between 2006 and 2013 – all of which he has since denied.
During Wednesday’s TalkTV, presenter Osbourne, 70, weighed in on the controversy surrounding his heated encounter with singer Sir Rod Stewart after he claimed he slept with the star’s daughter at the 2006 GQ Men Of The Year Awards.
She said: ‘The only thing I can say about Russell Brand, is the two things I don’t like, was when he spoke about… one of them is a very good friend of ours, Kimberley Stewart, about what he had done to Kimberley Stewart in front of [Rod].
She added: ‘And then he did the same with Sir Bob Geldof… You just don’t do that to people’s families, when that father is in the room. He’s done it twice now and that’s the thing that sticks with me.’
In 2006, Brand ruffled feathers when he crudely declared to the audience at the time: ‘Here’s to Rod Stewart who had a go at me earlier this year for too much womanising.
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‘But then again I did have a go on his daughter.’
Sir Rod, now 78, didn’t take kindly to Brand’s claims and had his own say when he too took to the stage to receive his accolade.
The Every Beat of My Heart singer called out the comedian and said: ‘You went with my daughter, did you? Russell, stand up.’
Brand sheepishly attempted to explain himself and replied: ‘I took her out for one evening,’ to which Sir Rod demanded to know if he had behaved himself while in his daughter’s company.
The comedian claimed to have slept with Kimberly (Picture: Getty Images)
‘I never touched that girl,’ the former Big Brother presenter backtracked which prompted a response from the star that went like: ‘F***ing right you didn’t. You mustn’t come up here and boast. I speak here as a father’.
Before the Times piece was published, followed by a Channel 4 documentary hours later, Brand had taken to Twitter, aka X, where he said he ‘absolutely refutes very serious allegations’ being made against him.
While the allegations had not yet been published at the time, he said he had been approached by a mainstream TV network and a mainstream newspaper with ‘extremely disturbing’ correspondence listing ‘a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.’
Amid some ‘stupid stuff’ in the correspondence, including, he said, that he ‘shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives,’ were ‘some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.’
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