Richard Osman hits out at 'talentless' 'sleaze' Russell Brand as he reflects on their time working at Endemol at the start of the disgraced comic's career
- Newsrooms
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- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
4 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
One of the ten biggest stories of the past week (number 5 of 3760).Part of a bigger story
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1TV producer and presenter Richard Osman has said despite never meeting Russell Brand, 'right from the beginning' he knew he was 'awful.'
In Daily Mail’s words.2
The bigger story: Russell Brand
2 developments since Mon 9 Nov. 1 more since this one.
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The story so far
55 newsroomsCooling- Reports
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (3 in the last three hours, 4 in the three before).
First with it: spiked, 19 hr 41 min before anyone else.
Reported by 55 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The Guardian and Just the News (the same headline); Daily Express, The Mirror (all Reach); The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); The Times of India and BBC News (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
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| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 1 |
| Mon | 66 |
| Tue | 63 |
| Today | 23 |



