Vanessa Feltz was stunned by Russell Brand’s comments (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Vanessa Feltz has revealed her horror after comedian Russell Brand previously joked on air about sleeping with her daughters.
Speaking for the first time about the controversial actor’s comments, Feltz said she was ‘deeply offended’.
It comes as A-list star, 48, stands accused of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse following a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4’s Dispatches, allegations he strongly denies.
Speaking on her TalkTV drivetime show this afternoon, Feltz, 61, said: ‘If this is ok with you, I wouldn’t mind sharing with you a personal reflection on this story?
‘I met Russell Brand when I was a guest on EForum and Big Brother’s Big Mouth – so our career paths crossed quite naturally over the years and on other occasions I met him as a friend, I met him on his shows and one of those occasions was in 2006 when I appeared on his chat show, 1 Leicester Square.’
She then played a clip of the show, in which Brand asks her: ‘Can I have it off with either you or your daughters?’
The Celebs Go Dating star has two daughters (Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage)
To which she quickly replies: ‘No, you may not! No…’
The conversation continues: ‘Or here’s a whacky suggestion…”’
‘Or three at once, no!’, she replies.
‘Damn, she’s always one step ahead. Vanessa Feltz, come on, some of them are adults,’ Brand jokes.
‘I’ve got two daughters and no, the answer is no.’
‘None of them?’, he probes.
Feltz says: ‘Neither. Will you stop it! No, you can’t.’
‘Selfish,’ he declares.
Vanessa says: ‘When you have your own daughters you will know why I said that.’
‘Well, I won’t sleep with them…’, he adds, adopting a silly voice.
Vanessa replies: ‘God, yuck.’
The controversial comedian asked to sleep with her two daughters (Picture: Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock)
In the studio today, she added: ‘Yuck, precisely, that’s what I thought then and that’s what I think now.’
She continued: ‘It’s terribly awkward when you are a guest on somebody else’s show, particularly in a theatre, which is full of great fans of the presenter… I was in this unbelievably awkward position where you don’t quite know what to do.
‘Are you meant to think it’s funny and play along? Are you meant to stand up and walk out in high dudgeon and look as if you are a spoil-sport and a party-pooper? What are you supposed to do?’
She went on: ‘I know, I was deeply offended then, as I remain deeply offended now at the idea of him saying, “I want to have sex with you and both your daughters.”
‘I think one of my daughters was 15 years old at the time and the answer was, as you saw me say there, was emphatically, “No!”‘
Feltz also went on to say that she had witnessed Brand on many occasions in a work environment.
Brand has now been accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women (Picture: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
She explained that she was there ‘quite a lot’ appearing on Big Brother’s Big Mouth, EForum perhaps ‘every other week’.
The presenter said she witnessed Brand ‘in full flood and full flow.’
‘Actually admired him enormously, his phraseology, his passion, the kind of drama of it all,’ she shared. ‘He seemed to bring a tremendous dollop of charisma to the programme, such as I hadn’t seen in any other presenter.
‘He really was quite remarkable. So I was there, if he was in “plain sight”, I was looking at him. But I knew he was having sex with many women, but I just thought they were all willing.’
She added TV executives may also have been in the dark when it came to the star’s behaviour.
Brand has strenuously denied all the claims, following the reports at the weekend.
Feltz was ‘deeply offended’ by his remarks on live TV (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
Meanwhile, investigations are underway from the BBC and Channel 4 into his past behaviour while working on their shows.
The Metropolitan Police has also received a report of a sexual assault 20 years ago, which allegedly took place in Soho, central London, in 2003.
In a short statement, the force said: ‘On Sunday, September 17, the Met received a report of a sexual assault which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003.
‘Officers are in contact with the woman and will be providing her with support.
‘We first spoke with The Sunday Times on Saturday, September 16 and have since made further approaches to The Sunday Times and Channel 4 to ensure that anyone who believes they have been the victim of a sexual offence is aware of how to report this to the police.’
Apart from his video addressing the allegations ahead of publication, Brand is yet to speak out publicly with a further response as more women continue to come forward with accusations of assault and inappropriate behaviour.
However, his upcoming tour shows have been cancelled by the venues.
Watch or listen to Vanessa’s drivetime show from Monday to Friday, 5-7pm, on TalkTV.