After popping out of rehab in 2004, he went on to host Huge Brother‘s spin-off present, Huge Brother’s Eforum, the identical 12 months, persevering with within the function till 2007. It’s throughout this time he’s alleged to have pursued feminine viewers members for intercourse and uncovered himself to a member of the crew.
Model offered a radio present, The Russell Model Present, on the BBC between 2006 and 2008. He launched his late evening discuss present, Model X, in 2012. It’s throughout the launch occasion for this collection that he’s mentioned to have raped one among his victims, given the pseudonym Nadia on the Dispatches present.
Model was on a tour of his newest dwell present, Bipolarisation, in September 2023 when the allegations broke. The ultimate two remaining tour dates had been postponed following the allegations.
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2007: Russell Model’s performing profession
After showing in a number of episodes of The Invoice as a young person in 1994, Model had his first movie function in 2007 in St. Trinian’s. He later appeared within the 2008 movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall alongside Kristen Bell.
Different notable movie roles embrace 2010’s Get Him To The Greek, alongside Jonah Hill; Arthur; and Rock of Ages. He additionally did some voice roles, together with voicing Dr. Nefario in Despicable Me, and Creek in Trolls.
2008: BBC resignation
In 2008, Model resigned from the BBC after a scandal over a cellphone name he made, along with Jonathan Ross, to actor Andrew Sachs, which Model circulated on air to his BBC radio viewers.
In the course of the cellphone name, Ross introduced to Sachs: “He [meaning Brand] fucked your granddaughter”. Model subsequently resigned from the BBC, after the BBC Belief deemed the calls a “deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification”. Model apologised six years later.
Following the allegations made towards Model on 16 September 2023, a BBC spokesperson responded on behalf of the organisation: “Russell Model labored for numerous completely different organisations, of which the BBC was one. As is well-known, Russell Model left the BBC after a severe editorial breach in 2008 – as did the then-controller of Radio 2. The circumstances of the breach had been reviewed intimately on the time. We hope that demonstrates that the BBC takes points severely and is ready to behave.
