Kirsty Gallacher backs brother-in-law Russell Brand & shares his video with heart as he denies ‘serious’ allegations
KIRSTY Gallacher has today backed her brother-in-law Russell Brand as he denied “aggressive” claims he says are set to be made against him.
The TV and radio star, whose sister Laura is married to Brand, showed her support for the Arthur actor on social media.
This morning, Brand posted a YouTube clip in which he strongly denied the as-yet-unknown allegations against him.
In the clip, he said that he had been contacted by a major TV broadcaster and a newspaper with a series of “extremely egregious and aggressive attacks”.
He added that he “refutes” the claims and that all his past relationships were “always consensual”.
Moreover, he slammed the unknow accusations as “untrue” and a “coordinated media attack” on him.
And Kirsty appeared to show her support for her brother-in-law, sharing his video on social media.
appeared to show her support for her brother-in-law, sharing his video on social media.
It comes after:
- Brand released a video slamming the claims against him as ‘untrue’
- Brand’s wife Laura Gallacher appears to have deleted her Instagram
- Controversial internet personality Andrew Tate showed his support for Brand on social media
The star did not make any comment beyond that.
It has not yet been revealed what the accusations against Brand are or who has made them.
Channel 4 has cleared a slot at 9pm this evening for a special, 90-minute episode of Dispatches, but the show’s subject has not been confirmed.
For her part, Laura Gallacher has not made any public comment on her husband’s video.
She also appears to have deleted her own Instagram account.
The couple began dating in 2015 before marrying two years later in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
They share two children, Mabel and Peggy, and Laura was recently pregnant with their third.
Kirsty made her name on Sky Sports News in the late 1990s, before hosting Kirst’s Home Videos from 2000 until 2004.
She also presented Gladiators in 2008 and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.
Since 2021 she has hosted a programme on Smooth Radio.
Kirsty has two children by rugby player Paul Sampson, whom she married in 2010, but the pair divorced in 2015.
Russell Brand's video transcript in full
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Now this isn’t the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story I am the news.
I have received two extremely disturbing letters – well a letter and an email.
One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuff – like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque, attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream – when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I have written about extensively in my books I was very very promiscuous
Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent. And I’m being transparent about it now as well.
And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play?
Particularly when we have seen coordinated media attacks before – like with Joe Rogan when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn’t approve of and we saw a spate of headlines from media outlets across the world using the same language.
I’m aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while ‘Watch out Russell, they are coming for you, you are getting too close to the truth, Russell Brand did not kill himself’.
I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles ‘Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorist, Russell Brand’s right wing’.
I’m aware of news media making phone calls, sending letters to people I know for ages and ages.
It’s been clear to me or at least it feels to me like there’s a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices and I mean my voice along with your voice.
I don’t mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very very serious criminal allegations.
Also it’s worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack
Now I don’t want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together
We are obviously going to look into this matter because it’s very, very serious. In the meantime I want you to stay close, stay awake but more important than any of that if you can, please, stay free.