Comedian Katherine Ryan has claimed there is a “dangerous comic” working in the British showbusiness industry.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs at the weekend, the comedian said she had “wrestled” with the decision about whether to work with “someone who I believe to be a perpetrator of sexual assault” or turn down jobs.
Ryan did not specify who she was talking about on Desert Island Discs. But her comments were a follow up to something she said in an interview with Louis Theroux last year. And the interview comes weeks after Russell Brand was at the centre of allegations of rape and sexual assault on Channel 4’s Dispatches programme, which he denies.
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Canadian-born comic Ryan told host Lauren Laverne in a show recorded before the Brand allegations broke that although she believed the person “is or was dangerous”, she was willing to appear on a show with him.
The 40-year-old revealed that her “compromise” was to go on the programme with the unnamed comic but “let him know under no uncertain terms what I think of him.”
She added that she didn’t notice “much of a reaction” from the comedian in question, but that other comics who were aware of the person’s reputation “really liked what I said”.
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