Comedian and presenter Noel Fielding has said that he is ‘horrified and deeply disturbed’ by his former friend Russell Brand‘s rape conviction, adding that he had been ‘completely unaware’ of his crimes.
Fielding, who appeared on numerous comedy shows and panels with Brand and collaborated with him in the early 2000s and 2010s, said his relationship with the disgraced comedian had been ‘professional rather than personal’.
The Bake Off presenter also apologised for some of the jokes he made alongside Brand, saying they were ‘horrible and inappropriate’ and that he ‘very much regretted’ them.
Fielding, 53, was one of many comics who had publicly
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