It all kicked off on GB News this morning, following a joint Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into Russell Brand, in which the news outlets accuse Brand of rape and sexual assault (Brand vehemently denies the allegations).
After the pair interviewed Labour shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth, GB News host Andrew Pierce brought up a tweet published by his co-host Bev Turner ahead of the investigation, in which she defended Brand, and said that he was her ‘hero’.
Pierce branded the tweet ‘shameful’, while Turner defended her position and suggested that Brand was a threat to the newspapers.
Things eventually reached a head, with Pierce repeatedly saying ‘shame on you’ to Turner and rebuking her for bringing up Covid all the time.
Mr S suspects things might be rather awkward at the water cooler after that one…
Watch the clash here:
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