I know it must seem like Russell Brand Day at Sick Chirpse, but we were all off on the weekend when the story initially broke, and it cost us thousands upon thousands of page views! Even still, the news stories keep rolling in, as do old interviews with female celebrities who apparently had the comedian sussed a long time ago.

Way back in 2006, Danni Minogue, now 51, made comments that seem to foreshadow the accusations that came out against Brand in the last week. She told The Mirror at the time:

‘He is completely crazy and a bit of a vile predator.

I certainly don’t think he has cured his sex addiction, that’s for sure.

He wouldn’t take no for an answer. He always goes that step too far.

Never quite far enough to slap his face, but usually too far.

He’s obviously very intelligent – but he wears more make-up than I do.

Normally I love guys with eyeliner on. It can be very sexy, but not on Russell. Absolutely no way, never, he’s just not my type.’

Minogue added that she was ‘told he got sacked from MTV in the past for wearing an Osama bin Laden costume to work the day after September 11.’

‘I couldn’t believe that I’d just agreed to be interviewed by someone who would do something like that, it really unnerved me.

And then throughout the whole interview, he kept making shocking remarks that I can’t even repeat. Just uttering the words would make me blush.’

The interview in question was Minogue’s appearance on Brand’s MTV chatshow. She later said that Brand had leched over her ‘fabolous breasts’, then followed her down a corridor and offered his number to her. What, you’re telling me Simon Cowell never did the same thing?

Just goes to show what a different time it was back then that this was never discussed, or that it was brought up by Minogue but just dismissed as another bit of news. I know she says he never went “far enough for a slap to the face”, but maybe that would’ve been a good idea in hindsight.

Obviously her experience with Brand doesn’t prove anything in regards to the very serious allegations against him, but it’s just one of many anecdotes out there, from celebrities and otherwise, that won’t be doing him in any favours as the story progresses.

On the plus side, he’s got Andrew Tate backing him. So that’s nice.