BBC Probing Five Complaints Against Russell Brand, Including 2008 Work in Los Angeles

The BBC network in Britain has given an update into its workplace misconduct investigation into comedian Russell Brand, which includes a complaint regarding conduct at the British broadcaster’s Los Angeles office in 2008. “Our investigations so far indicate a total of five complaints directly to the BBC: two individuals raised complaints and concerns during 2006-8 and raised these issues again after Russell Brand left the BBC. A separate complaint was made by another individual after Russell Brand had left the BBC in relation to the 2008 allegation in LA. Two further complainants have come forward since the review began,” BBC representative Peter Johnston said of the ongoing probe on Tuesday. The allegation from Los Angeles around workplace conduct in 2008 was first formally reported to the BBC in 2019.  “We have spoken to a number of individuals, including some who were based in Los Angeles at the time, but the work on this continues.  Alongside understanding the extent of any knowledge of that incident within the BBC prior to 2019, I am also looking at what was broadcast at the time,” Johnston said of the complaint around Brand while working on a BBC project in Los Angeles.   BBC News
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