Moment Russell Brand left Lorraine Kelly feeling ‘uncomfortable’ by touching her thigh and calling her a derogatory name

Lorraine Kelly has said she felt uncomfortable watching a 2007 television clip in which Russell Brand touched her thigh and called her a derogatory name. She recalled the incident on her ITV show in 2023, after a documentary examined allegations of sexual offences by Brand, and said she had laughed along at the time because others did and she saw it as part of his comic persona.

The article reports that Brand was jailed for more than ten years after being convicted of raping one fan and sexually assaulting three other women between 2004 and 2009. Kelly said she had encountered his charming and flirtatious manner in interviews, but would probably have responded differently to the incident in hindsight. Broadcaster Vanessa Feltz also described Brand as intimidating after a 2006 interview in which he made sexual remarks about her and her daughters.