Misogyny and sexism of Russell Brand case have not gone away, TV insiders say
The Guardian · Michael Savage ·
Concerns remain that media industry is still failing to confront troubling behaviour
Even within the culture of casual misogyny and sexism that pervaded the TV world in the mid-noughties, Naomi Harvey and her colleagues concluded they needed to do something about Russell Brand.
Harvey was one of a team of researchers tasked with finding fans of Big Brother, Channel 4’s reality TV juggernaut, to appear on the discussion show Big Brother’s Big Mouth, hosted by Brand.
They had noticed Brand’s habit of asking a runner, the most junior person on the production, to obtain the phone numbers of female audience members and pass them to him. But something new had just happened. A distraught audience member had phoned Harvey to complain after being invited for drinks by Brand after the show.
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