Richard Madeley surprised after realising he appeared in Russell Brand documentary

Richard Madeley looked astonished as he discovered that he was in the Russell Brand Dispatches documentary.

Comedian and actor Russell has been accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, with the allegations revealed after a joint investigation by Dispatches, The Sunday Times and The Times.

He denies the claims against him and has said his relationships have always been “consensual”.

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Dispatches’ Russell Brand: In Plain Sight aired at the weekend and as Richard and co-host Susanna Reid discussed it on Good Morning Britain, Susanna told Richard there was a clip of him and wife Judy Finnigan included.

“Is there?” he asked, looked surprised.

“In the documentary?”

Susanna said of the interview, which Richard thought was around 2008 or 2009: “There’s a sort of you know, he’s written a book and he’s doing publicity for it, and Judy sort of raises an eyebrow and says, ‘Ooh yeah, you’re all innocent Russell Brand, the way you behave’ and you say, ‘Mmm, butter wouldn’t melt.’

“There was, it was almost, as you were watching, I was thinking, did you say that in a way that you kind of knew his reputation, or was there anything more to that do you think?”

Richard said the interview was a long time ago and that he “never heard allegations” about him.

“Never heard that,” said the TV star.

“If I had, we would have had to deal with that in an interview.”

He went on: “However, as he himself has said in his statement, which he issued prior to the documentary going out, he had a terrible reputation as a womaniser, to use an old-fashioned word.

“His reputation was, and I won’t use the four letter word beginning with S and ending with R, but that’s what he was known as. But I never heard allegations that he was anything other than a consensual operator in that field.

“But yes, he was an operator. And where there was an opportunity sexually, he would chase it up. And he says that himself, he was hugely promiscuous. But I have to say that, you know, I worked at Channel 4 at the time, I actually never heard specific allegations that he was breaking the law.”

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