# Resurfaced footage shows Russell Brand holding woman’s arm at hearing

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/moment-rude-russell-brand-grabs-random-womans-arm-in-parliament-and-accuses-fellow-guest-speaker-of-flirting-with-her/
- Published: 2026-11-12T08:01:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T08:19:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16285035/Russell-Brand-woman-Parliament-speaker-flirting.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- 2012 footage shows Brand holding a woman’s arm as she passed.
- He joked that a fellow guest had been flirting with her.
- Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months for sexual offences.

## Summary

Resurfaced footage from a 2012 parliamentary hearing shows Russell Brand holding a woman’s arm for about four seconds as she tried to pass him, then joking that a fellow guest had been flirting with her. The clip has drawn renewed attention because Brand has since been convicted of sexual offences and sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison.

Brand was giving evidence on drug policy to the Home Affairs Select Committee, chaired by former Labour minister Keith Vaz. He also joked about his past criminal behaviour and mocked a Conservative MP who raised the impact of crime on victims; the MP, Sir Michael Ellis, later recalled Brand as “rather rude”. The jury convicted Brand of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women, while acquitting him on two other rape counts and one attempted indecent assault count.

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