While many of Russell Brand’s boasts about his conquests were often shockingly laughed off, he sparked fury with his comments about Sir Rod Stewart’s daughter at the GQ Man of the Year Awards in 2006
“Probably the reason I hate him so much is that I am a dad, and I have this fear that one day my daughters will bring something like that home.”
Late comedic legend Sean Lock’s words, spoken with pure vitriol on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, were the thoughts of many concerned parents while Russell Brand was at the height of his fame.
And parents were very right to be worried. Brand is now a convicted rapist and has been sentenced to 10 years and six months after being found guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday. Jurors unanimously convicted Brand of offences against four women between 2004 and 2009.
Yet his cruel boasts about his ‘conquests’ were commonplace, not only in his ‘My Booky Wook’ (which was actually quoted as evidence by the prosecution) but in his stand-up gigs and at awards bashes.
While many of these moments were often shockingly laughed off, he sparked fury with his comments about Sir Rod Stewart’s daughter at the GQ Man of the Year Awards in 2006.
Stood in front of the star-studded audience, Brand left Sir Rod enraged as he bragged about hooking up with Kimberley Stewart, who was around 27 at the time.
As he picked up an award for fashion, Brand dedicated it to Sir Rod and said: “Here’s to Rod Stewart who had a go at me earlier this year for too much womanising. But then again I did have a go on his daughter.”
Soon after, Sir Rod was invited onstage to accept an outstanding musical achievement award, and he didn’t hold back from putting the comedian in his place. Addressing Brand directly, the Maggie May singer said: “You went with my daughter, did you? Russell, stand up.”
Brand appeared sheepish and could be heard mumbling: “I took her out for one evening” in response, to which Sir Rod replied, “Did you behave yourself?” Backtracking on his original comment, Brand stated, “I never touched that girl,” prompting the crooner to remark, “F***ing right you didn’t. You mustn’t come up here and boast. I speak here as a father.”
Speaking to Michael Parkinson that same year, Sir Rod explained that he had spoken to his daughter prior to the incident and she confirmed that nothing had gone on between them and they had just been pictured out at dinner together.
“So when I got up on the stage I pinpointed him and I said, ‘Get up. God’s honest truth, did you shag my daughter?’ And he said no,” Sir Rod explained. “He was humbled, absolutely humbled. Because you don’t do that, even in my heyday I wouldn’t have done that.”
Parkinson pointed out that Brand was “frightened”, to which Sir Rod responded: “Yeah, he was, because I had a few of my mates in the crowd, didn’t I?”
It wouldn’t be until 17 years later that a joint 2023 investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches, The Times and The Sunday Times in documentary, titled ‘Russell Brand: In Plain Sight’, would highlight serious allegations against him, ranging from rape and sexual assault to emotionally abusive behaviour from five women.
Following the airing of the documentary, Sharon Osbourne had spoken out against his treatment of Sir Rod.
Speaking on TalkTV in September 2023, she said: “The only thing I can say about Russell Brand, is the two things I don’t like, was when he spoke about… one of them is a very good friend of ours, Kimberley Stewart, about what he had done to Kimberley Stewart in front of [Rod].”
She added: “And then he did the same with Sir Bob Geldof… You just don’t do that to people’s families, when that father is in the room. He’s done it twice now and that’s the thing that sticks with me.”
Prior to his confrontation with Sir Rod Stewart, Brand had been linked to Sir Bob Geldof’s late daughter Peaches in the early noughties before she tragically died aged 25 from a heroin overdose in 2014.
Apearing at the NME Hero of the Year Awards in 2006, Brand had introduced Sir Bob, now 75, to the stage as “Sir Bobby Gandalf”. As he stepped up on stage, Geldof famously retorted: “Russell Brand, what a c***.”
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