Russell Model Receives Standing Ovation at Comedy Present Hours After Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Russell Model obtained a loud present of assist from the group at his Bipolarisation present amid his misconduct scandal.

Model, 48, introduced his stand-up routine to London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre on Saturday, September 16. The actor was met with a rousing spherical of applause when he took the stage, per footage obtained by the Every day Mail.

Within the video, many attendees rose from their seats whereas clapping. He appeared to get a second standing ovation on the finish of the efficiency.

A number of hours earlier, The Occasions reported that 4 girls have accused Model of rape, sexual assault and abuse. In keeping with the British newspaper, one of many girls was allegedly 16 on the time of her encounter with Model. The Occasions’ investigation was accomplished together with Channel 4’s Dispatches, which additional detailed the allegations on its Saturday evening broadcast. (Model’s present started at 7:00 p.m. BST, two hours earlier than Dispatches aired.)

Model has denied the “very critical” claims about his alleged conduct.

“I’ve obtained two extraordinarily disturbing letters, or a letter and an electronic mail, one from a mainstream media TV firm [and] one from a newspaper, itemizing a litany of extraordinarily egregious and aggressive assaults,” he stated in a Friday, September 15, video posted onto his social media pages. “In addition to some fairly silly stuff, like my neighborhood competition must be stopped, that I shouldn’t be capable to assault mainstream media narratives on this channel, however amidst this litany of astonishing, fairly baroque assaults, are some very critical allegations that I completely refute.”

Model didn’t reveal the character of the accusations on the time nor who despatched him the “disturbing” letters. He did declare that the alleged incidents befell “after I was working within the mainstream” as an actor.

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“As I’ve written about extensively in my books, I used to be very, very promiscuous. Now throughout that point of promiscuity, the relationships I had had been completely, at all times consensual,” he stated. “I used to be at all times clear about that then — virtually too clear. And I’m being clear about it now as properly. And to see that transparency metastasized into one thing felony that I completely deny makes me query [if] there’s one other agenda at play?”

Model additional condemned the tales revealed in The Occasions report and the Dispatches investigation as false. “It’s price mentioning that there are witnesses whose proof instantly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media shops are attempting to assemble apparently, in what appears to me to be, a coordinated assault,” he claimed.

In his Friday video, Model stated that he “clearly” deliberate to analyze the “very, very critical” claims.

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