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Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon said Russell Brand’s allegations show “terrible behavior” towards women has been “historically tolerated” in the television industry.

Ms Mahon addressed the complaints against the former Channel 4 presenter as she opened the Royal Television Society’s Cambridge convention on Wednesday September 20.

“The allegations made against Russell Brand are horrific and as CEO of Channel 4 and as a woman in our industry, I have discovered the behaviors described in Dispatches And Sunday time And The temperature disgusting and saddening articles,” she said.

Brand has strongly denied allegations of rape and sexual assault which span between 2006 and 2013, when he was at the height of his fame while working for the BBC television network and starring in Hollywood films.