Carol McGiffin slammed as she appears to support Russell Brand after allegations
Carol McGiffin has been slammed for liking pro-Russell Brand tweets following allegations he abused four women, which he strongly denies.
The former Loose Women host appeared to have liked a tweet which said: “Never trust women who break their silence to the media instead of the police, accusing men of rape. Russell Brand is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And I bet that is never going to happen so they’re trying to prosecute his case in the court of public opinion."
She also appeared to have liked another tweet which said: “They find and pay women to accuse anyone who speaks the truth. The timing is curious. When Russell Brand was a mindless minion of the system on drugs, he was loved by Hollywood and the establishment. Now that he is cleaned, married and speaking the truth, he has become an enemy.”
One Twitter user joked: “Someone tell Carol McGiffin she can hide her likes if she buys a blue tick” and others were quick to comment underneath in response to her social media activity. “Oh she’s vile,” wrote one. Another said: “Grim she was always a rotten one but disappointing nonetheless.” A third chimed in: “Crikey.” “Grim as,” a fourth penned. While a fifth added: “She is a disgrace.” The Mirror has reached out to reps for Carol for further comment on this story.
Carol McGiffin has appeared to show support for Russell Brand in the wake of abuse claims (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Brand has denied the allegations against him, which include rape and sexual assault (Getty Images)Outspoken Carol quit Loose Women earlier this year after saying the ITV show had become “too woke” for her. The 63-year-old said she had been forced to "step away" from the programme after allegedly being asked to sign a contract which was "totally unjust and unworkable for me".
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Although she hasn’t tweeted her own opinion on the Russell Brand claims, she did retweet a post that said: “The way Russell Brand is being treated by the relic media is plain wrong. The fracture between reasonable people and this travesty of a media is being made permanent.”
Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse by four women between 2006 and 2013. One of the women alleges she was just 16 and still at school when Brand, who was then 31, dated her for three months. She claims he would refer to her as “the child”, control what she wore and once “forced his penis down her throat”.
A second woman claims to have been raped by Brand at his LA home. A third woman, who used to work for Brand, alleges he attacked her at his LA house and threatened to take legal action against her if she ever reported it. A fourth woman describes being sexually assaulted by Brand, who she also claims was physically and emotionally abusive.
The allegations were made public following a joint investigation by The Times and Channel 4 ’s Dispatches and the documentary Russell Brand: In Plain Sight aired on TV on Saturday night. In a statement, he said: "I've received two extremely disturbing letters or 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 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, often 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'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. 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?"
The Mirror approached Carol's representative for comment ahead of publication.
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