This text accommodates references to sexual violence, coercive management, and violence towards girls.
Russell Model, 49, has been accused of rape, sexual assault, manipulation and emotional abuse by a lot of alleged victims.
A evaluation into Model’s conduct on the BBC, the place he was employed between 2006 and 2008, investigated eight claims towards the comic, together with an incident the place he allegedly adopted a colleague into the bathroom and uncovered his penis.
Peter Johnston, the BBC director of editorial complaints and opinions, famous that whereas the “tradition of the time undoubtedly influenced what was acceptable/tolerated,” he nonetheless discovered that “a lot of people had issues about Russell Model’s behaviour, which they felt unable to boost then.”
The allegations towards Model had been first printed on 16 September 2023, by way of a joint investigation carried out by The Occasions and The Sunday Occasions along with Channel 4’s Dispatches. The Channel 4 documentary, Russell Model: In Plain Sight: Dispatches, was launched on 18 September 2023, detailing the investigation. Model has denied all accusations towards him and maintains that his sexual encounters had been “completely all the time consensual”.
1975: Russell Model’s birthplace and private life
Russell Model was born in Grays, Essex, in 1975. He was raised by his mom after his dad and mom separated when he was six months previous. Aged 16, he left residence resulting from a troubled relationship along with his mom’s companion and commenced to take unlawful medication.
He attended Italia Conti Academy in 1991 however was expelled throughout his first 12 months for illicit drug taking and poor attendance. He went to rehab in 2003 to get well from alcohol and drug dependancy.
Model has been married twice: first to Katy Perry, whom he married in October 2010 after assembly the earlier 12 months, and subsequently to Laura Model, born Gallacher, a kids’s creator. The couple have two daughters, born in 2016 and 2018 respectively, and the household reside in Henley, Oxfordshire.
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2000: Russell Model’s comedy and presenting profession
Model was first within the highlight as a video journalist for MTV, presenting the Dancefloor Chart in 2000, earlier than being fired the next 12 months for coming into work dressed as Osama Bin Laden within the wake of the September 11 assaults.