Brand interviewed David Walliams and Matt Lucas for his own Channel 4 show in 2006
Russell Brand and David Walliams once joked together that being camp or gay in appearance was a “smokescreen” for them to attract women.
A video of the pair chatting together in 2006 with Matt Lucas has resurfaced this week. Page Six first reported it was an edition of The Russell Brand Show with Walliams and Lucas being interviewed.
Actor Lucas, who co-wrote Little Britain with Walliams, joked: “Girl, you look gorge. You’re like the two gayest straight blokes there are, aren’t you?”
Walliams, 55, then responded: “Isn’t it a wonderful smokescreen?”
Brand replied: “Isn’t it, though? Isn’t it glorious? It works wonderfully well.”
The clip has re-emerged just days after Brand was sentenced to 10 years in prison for one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault on Monday. He is now serving time at HMP Wandsworth in London.
Judge Mr Justice Bennathan described him as a “sexual predator” who told a “series of lies” and demonstrated “staggering arrogance”
On Tuesday Walliams was named as the celebrity at the centre of a three year investigation by ITV News and the Guardian. To date there have been no criminal charges against him and he denies all allegations.
The best-selling author and former Britain’s Got Talent judge was the subject of accusations of “grooming” teenage girls as young as 15 and abusing his position to pursue women.
One woman described her alleged encounter with Walliams, when she was 15, as a “sexual assault”, while multiple women accused him of “grooming” them as teenagers.
In response, Walliams denies any wrongdoing and said he’s ‘devastated’ by the claims. He sent a letter to journalists working on this investigation and wrote: “Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with.
“I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret. And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did.”
He added: “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
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