Vanessa Feltz shares ‘deeply offensive’ clip of Russell Brand asking to sleep with her and her daughters
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00:00 I met Russell Brand when I was a guest on E! Forum
00:04 and Big Brother's Big Mouth,
00:06 so our career paths crossed quite naturally over the years.
00:10 And on other occasions, I met him as a friend,
00:13 I met him on various shows,
00:14 and one of those occasions was in 2006
00:17 when I appeared on his chat show, One Leicester Square.
00:21 Here's a clip of that particular show.
00:23 Have a look at this and see what you think.
00:26 Can I have it off with either you or your daughters?
00:29 LAUGHTER
00:31 No, you may not. No.
00:33 Oh, here's a whacking suggestion. All three at once.
00:35 No. She's always one step ahead.
00:37 Certainly not.
00:38 But Nair's, the Felts, come on, some of them are adults.
00:40 I've got two daughters, the answer's no and I'm... No.
00:43 None of them? Hold on, let's go through it.
00:45 You've got two whole daughters and I can't even have one.
00:47 Will you stop it? No, you can't. No, you can't. Selfish.
00:49 When you have your own daughters, you'll know why I said that.
00:52 Well, I won't sleep with them.
00:53 LAUGHTER
00:54 I've got some, principally.
00:55 Well, I'm not sure about that anyway.
00:57 But the boys are in a lot of trouble.
00:59 Right.
01:00 God. Yuck!
01:02 Yuck. Yuck, precisely. That's what I thought then.
01:05 That's what I think now.
01:07 The numbers 0344991000, as I was just explaining before the break,
01:11 it's terribly awkward when you're a guest on somebody else's show,
01:15 particularly in a theatre which is full of great fans
01:17 of the presenter, Russell Brand.
01:19 So they all loved him, they were cheering him and egging him on.
01:22 And I was in this unbelievably awkward position
01:25 where you don't quite know what to do.
01:26 Are you meant to pretend you think it's funny and laugh along?
01:29 Are you meant to stand up and walk out in high dutch
01:31 and look as if you're a spoilsport and a party pooper?
01:34 You know, what are you supposed to do?
01:35 But I know I was deeply offended then,
01:37 as I remain deeply offended now,
01:38 at the idea of him saying, "I want to have sex with you
01:41 "and both your daughters."
01:42 I think one of my daughters was 15 years old at the time,
01:44 and the answer was, as you saw me say then, emphatically, "No."
01:47 [BLANK_AUDIO]