Police officers from a unit set up after the Jimmy Savile scandal have been assigned to help detectives with the Russell Brand case.
A spokesman for Operation Hydrant told the Times: "We are working with the Metropolitan Police in support of their response to recent allegations and would urge any victim or survivor who feels ready to report any allegations of sexual assault to come forward and speak to officers."Operation Hydrant has identified more than 9,000 possible sex offenders in the nine years it was set up. Some 250 of these were people with a 'public prominence.
Following the string of serious allegations made against Brand, the BBC has removed some of his work from iPlayer while YouTube - which usually earns him between £2,000 and £4,000 per video - axed his monetisation.Brand still has a presence on video platform Rumble, where his channel has 1.4 million followers and he hosts a weekly live show at 5pm BST, but there was no new episode on Monday.
His most recent video on Rumble is a short clip from Friday when he denied the allegations against him which were published the following day.. Brand's remaining live shows have also been cancelled. He has stepped down from two of his businesses, One Arm Bandit and Mayfair Film Partnership Ltd. Jimmy Savile, one of the UK's most famous broadcasters, sexually abused hundreds of people - most of them children. His crimes only emerged after his death in 2012 and sparked a national reckoning about child abuse in previous decades.
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