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A BBC inquiry into the behaviour of comedian Russell Brand during his employment with the corporation has uncovered a culture where individuals "felt unable to raise" issues regarding the presenter, fearing he "would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent".

BBC Director General Tim Davie has declined to rule out an external inquiry into the Russell Brand allegations as he stresses the issues surrounding the situation are “not wholly historic.”

Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs' granddaughter Georgina Baillie has said that suspending Russell Brand's YouTube earnings is 'cancel culture'.

“What led to that being on air?,” questioned Director General Tim Davie of Russell Brand’s old BBC broadcasts today, as he set out the scope of the review into Brand, which should report back in “weeks not months.”

The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches, four women accused Brand of rape and sexual assault over a period between 2006 and 2013. Brand has denied the allegations.Baillie was at the centre of the “Sachsgate” scandal in 2008 that saw Brand and TV presenter Jonathan Ross leave a series of “lewd” messages on Sachs’ answering machine relating to the comedian’s relationship with his granddaughter.

The BBC has refused to say whether it received historical complaints about Russell Brand as the broadcaster is expected to face scrutiny over allegations about the comedian’s alleged conduct.

hospitalised for three weeks in 2020 with Covid.The 75-year-old singer – who was previously the girlfriend and muse of Rolling Stones rocker Sir Mick Jagger – has been open about her struggle to recover from the virus, revealing last year she was still experiencing memory loss and fatigue, while her lungs hadn’t fully recovered.Now it’s been revealed she’s living at Denville Hall, north west London, which is a retirement home for professional actors and other theatrical professions and has been home to several other stars over the years, including Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs and filmmaker Lord Richard Attenborough and his actress wife Sheila Sim.A spokesman for the As Tears Go By hitmaker confirmed: ‘Marianne is staying at Denville Hall while she recovers from the ongoing effects of Covid.’Meanwhile, a friend of Marianne’s told the Daily Mail’s Eden Confidential this week: ‘She’s adding a touch of glamour to the home.’Marianne has been beset by health woes in recent years and was hospitalised for three weeks with the virus in April 2020; in January 2021 she told how she may never sing again after battling the infection.She told the Guardian: ‘I may not be able to sing ever again. Maybe that’s over.‘I would be incredibly upset if that was the case, but, on the other hand, I am 74.‘I don’t feel cursed and I don’t feel invincible.