Comedian and former actor Russell Brand has decided to postpone the few remaining dates of his charity fundraiser tour, “Bipolarization.” Last Saturday, the UK’s Channel 4 aired an hour-long documentary in which several women accused him of sexual assault. According to Vanity Fair, a BBC spokesperson said, “The documentary and associated reports contained serious allegations spanning a number of years. Russell Brand worked on BBC radio programmes between 2006 and 2008, and we are urgently looking into the issues raised.” 

The companies who employed Brand at the time of the incidents, the BBC and Banijay, have launched an investigation into the claims. Brand denied the allegations via his YouTube channel in a video titled “So, This Is Happening,” where he “absolutely refutes” the “litany of astonishing, rather baroque, attacks.”. His YouTube channel has 6.6 million subscribers, and his X (formerly Twitter) account has more than 11 million followers. Brand not only denied the accusations but made some of his own: “(It) makes me question, is there another agenda at play?” he said. The allegations made against Brand were first released in a joint investigation by The Times of London, The Sunday Times, and a Channel 4 documentary program titled “Dispatches.” Four women have come forward accusing the comedian of sexual assault between 2006 and 2013.