Paul Glynn
Entertainment & arts reporter

YouTube announced earlier that it had suspended Brand's channels from earning money from adverts. Sara McCorquodale, author and chief executive of social media analysis agency CORQ, estimates that he made about £2,000 to £4,000 per YouTube video.

"He was probably making more revenue from YouTube than any other platform," she tells BBC News.

"Everything existed to drive people towards his YouTube channel, so that probably was a significant revenue stream that has obviously now been paused."

However, Rumble is still carrying adverts on his content, "so his ability to make money has by no means means stopped", she says.

YouTube's move "will have some impact", McCorquodale adds. "But his audience is still there. They are very passionate, they want his content, and so they're going to follow him."

She predicts that Brand could launch an "independent, subscription-based platform" instead, where his legions of fans could pay to watch his videos.

Channel 4 has confirmed it took down shows featuring Russell Brand from its on-demand streaming service over the weekend.

A spokesperson said: “We have taken down content featuring Russell Brand from our streaming service while we look into this matter. This includes the Celebrity Bake Off episode.”

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Explaining why she has written to the BBC, Channel 4, GBNews and TikTok, Dame Caroline Dinenage says the culture, media and sport committee wants "to understand the actions they are taking as we consider some of the issues around these allegations".

Dame Caroline, who chairs the committee, says: "My concern is when people in power are aware of rumours or stories yet don’t act, then a culture is allowed to permeate."

As well as asking TikTok whether Brand can still monetise from his posts on the platform, she has written to Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon asking for details about the broadcaster's investigations - and that of production company Banijay UK.

She also asks BBC director general Tim Davie for a timescale of internal investigations. And in a letter to the chief executive of GBNews she wants to know what discussions have been had with presenters about impartiality and professionalism.

Dame Caroline Dinenage, Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee says she has written to the BBC, Channel 4, GB News and TikTok over the Russell Brand allegations.

In her letter to TikTok’s director of Government Relations, Dr Theo Bertram, she asks whether Brand is still able to monetise his TikTok posts, including those related to the allegations against him.

She also asks what procedures the app has in place to prevent creators from undermining the welfare of victims.

• The BBC has removed some programmes from its iPlayer and Sounds sites that feature Russell Brand
• A spokesman says the corporation "assessed that it [the content] now falls below public expectations”
• An episode of QI and podcast with Joe Wicks are no longer available
• Earlier, it was announced that YouTube has stopped Brand making money from his videos on the platform
• YouTube said: "If a creator's off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community"
• Brand has not spoken publicly since Friday, but denies the allegations of sexual assault and misconduct made against him in the joint Times, Sunday Times, and Channel 4 investigation

The BBC press office spokesperson did not elaborate on what shows have been removed from the iPlayer and Sounds sites.

But it appears that an episode of QI and a Joe Wicks podcast, both which featured Russell Brand as a guest, have been removed.

The BBC has removed some programmes featuring Russell Brand deemed to "fall below public expectations" from its iPlayer and Sounds sites.

A spokesperson for the BBC press office says: "The BBC does not ban or remove content when it is a matter of public record, unless we have justification for doing so.

• Friday: Russell Brand posts a two-and-a-half minute video, external to his social media channels denying allegations he described as "serious", but did not go into detail
• Saturday afternoon: The Sunday Times publishes an investigation piece, external, in collaboration with the The Times and Channel 4, into allegations Brand sexually assaulted four women between 2006 and 2013
• Saturday evening: Channel 4 airs its investigation, external into the allegations. At the same time, Brand plays a packed live show in Wembley
• Sunday: Broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4 and Banijay UK announce internal investigations, and a women's charity terminates partnership with Brand. The Met Police says it is also looking at the allegations
• Monday morning: Brand's talent agency and two book publishers part ways with him. One of Brand's accusers appears on the BBC's Woman's Hour programme
• Monday afternoon: The Met Police announces it has received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003 following the media investigations into Brand. The remainder of Brand's live tour is postponed
• Tuesday morning: YouTube says it has suspended Russell Brand's channels from making money from adverts for "violating" its "creator responsibility policy"

How did Channel 4’s Dispatches and The Sunday Times put the Russell Brand investigation together?

Adam Fleming is joined by Louisa Compton, head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, and Alistair Jackson, investigations editor of Dispatches.

Listen to Newscast and the Investigation into Russell Brand here.

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Let's give you a sense of what the scene is like around the Oxfordshire village of Pishill where Russell Brand is known to live and own a pub.

Two security guards say they have been employed to stay outside the Crown Inn pub - but they say they have not seen Brand in person.

Photographers can also be seen all down the end of the lane.

There is also security by the top of Brand's house, which is gated, and three cars are parked out the front - including one Range Rover with tinted windows.

South Oxfordshire District Council issued a statement saying: “Permission is required for the fencing that has been erected at The Crown Inn, Pishill. We have an open planning enforcement investigation which includes the unauthorised fencing. In accordance with our Planning Enforcement Statement, we cannot provide any further information at this stage of our investigation."

As we've been reporting, YouTube has suspended Russell Brand's channels from getting revenue from adverts, but he's continuing to generate cash on other online platforms.

He's on the online community platform Locals, where members can sign up for a minimum of £48 a year in order to access special bonus content from Brand, as well as the opportunity to interact with him directly.

His Instagram account includes a link to a merchandise store - although the webpage says the store is currently under review.

And his website is currently selling tickets to a wellness festival scheduled for next summer, hosted by him and his wife. Some weekend tickets costing between £160 and £195 each have already sold out.

He also uses his social media presence to promote his other work, including tickets to his now-postponed live stand-up comedy tour and a range of podcasts hosted by him.

Let's bring you some insight on YouTube suspending Russell Brand from making money from adverts on his channel on the platform.

Lara O'Reilly, who is a senior correspondent for Insider magazine, has been telling BBC News that YouTube will want its community to be considered safe for advertisers as it looks to keep its revenue streams healthy.

"Anything which would suggest there is unsuitable content or that it is a platform harbouring unsuitable people might make advertisers reconsider appearing there," she says.

O'Reilly adds that while she doesn't know much Brand makes from his YouTube platform, she suggests he could be making several thousand pounds per video.

For copyright reasons, this video is available only in the UK.

Over the weekend Russell Brand was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies.

Since then the BBC, Channel 4 and production company Banijay UK have launched internal investigations into alleged serious misconduct of Brand.

The Metropolitan Police has received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003 in the wake of media allegations about the star. The Times also said more women had come forward with claims.

On Monday, one of the women who has accused him of sexual assault when she was 16 has said his behaviour was an "open secret".

The woman, known as Alice, added that allegations against him have been "a long time coming".

Brand did not appear on his regular livestreamed weeknight show yesterday evening and has not been active on X, formerly Twitter, or YouTube.

The remaining shows of Brand's Bipolarisation tour have been postponed.

And as we’ve been reporting, this morning YouTube says it has suspended monetisation of Brand's channels from making money from adverts for "violating" its "creator responsibility policy"

It is wrong to doubt or blame women for taking a long time before coming forward with a rape complaint, says Dame Vera Baird, a barrister and former Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.

This kind of criticism shows how little we understand rape, she says

"The impact of being raped is very undermining," she tells BBC’s Radio 5 Live.

Victims who are humiliated need time to process the "trauma, uncertainty and fear" that comes along with it, she adds.

"The way we stop all of this criticism of women who say they’ve been raped...is by convicting men," Dame Vera adds.

Ian Youngs
Entertainment and Arts Reporter, BBC News

The noughties aren't so long ago that it's possible to dismiss them as a different age. But there are parts of the decade that British culture would rather forget.

Russell Brand was at the centre of a messy celebrity scene in the 2000s that now feels like the Cool Britannia party gone sour.

The recent allegations against the comedian, and resurfaced clips of things he said and did on air and on stage, have provided a sobering reminder of the seedier side of the pop and media culture in that decade.

Among the claims in Channel 4's recent Dispatches investigation into the star, there was a clip from his BBC Radio 2 show in 2007 that seemed to have gone largely unnoticed at the time.

In it, Brand interviewed Jimmy Savile and apparently offered up his "very attractive" assistant to go to meet him naked.

While the clip was from before Savile had been exposed as a serial sexual predator, it's scarcely believable now that it was broadcast on Britain's biggest radio station. Read the full story here.

Without naming Russell Brand, BBC Breakfast asked presenter Dermot O'Leary earlier about the "cultural issues" going on in television at the moment and some "unsavoury stories" coming out.

"It’s always hard to comment on individual stories you don’t know the details of," he says.

"You would hope that stories like this embolden victims and survivors to come forward because we all know that notoriously, statistically it’s very hard for people to come and tell their stories."

O'Leary says that his experience of working in television and radio for 25 years is "overwhelmingly the people that work in it, I find to be decent, caring sensitive people, and who are really sensitive to their duty of care".

When asked if things are changing, he says "duty of care evolves", which "can only be a good thing".

London's Metropolitan Police on Monday said they had received a report of an alleged sexual assault in 2003 in the wake of media allegations about Russell Brand.

The Met said it had received the report on Sunday, and that it was alleged that the assault had taken place in Soho in central London in 2003.

The statement did not name Brand, but said officers were in contact with the woman who had made the allegation and were "providing her with support".

Over the weekend, the comedian and actor was accused of rape and sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies. Read more about the story here.

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Before the details of the sexual allegations were published, Russell Brand shared a video of himself speaking to a camera and denying the claims.

"Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute," he said.

"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've 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." He said that he was "almost too transparent" about that and asked if "there was another agenda at play".

Brand said he believed he was the subject of a "co-ordinated attack" and he was going to look into the matter because it was "very, very serious".

Several women have made allegations against Brand, which he denies, as part of the investigation by the Sunday Times, the Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches:

• One woman alleges that Brand raped her against a wall in his Los Angeles home. She was treated at a rape crisis centre on the same day. The Times says it has seen medical records to support this
• A second woman alleges that Brand assaulted her in the UK when he was in his early 30s and she was 16 and still at school. She alleges he referred to her as "the child" during an emotionally abusive and controlling relationship
• A third woman claims that Brand sexually assaulted her while she worked with him in Los Angeles, and that he threatened to take legal action if she told anyone else about her allegation
• The fourth woman alleged being sexually assaulted by Brand and him being physically and emotionally abusive towards her
• The Times said on yesterday more women had come forward with claims