Nigel Farage under fire for appearing on Russell Brand’s podcast after sexual assault investigation began

Nigel Farage has come under fire for appearing on Russell Brand’s US podcast months after allegations of sexual assault against the now convicted comedian were made public.

The revelation comes after he accused Labour this week of “cosying up to” and “promoting” Brand a decade ago. 

During the 2015 election campaign, Miliband did an interview with Brand for his online series The Trews to try and win over young voters. 

Farage’s appearance on Brand’s podcast two years ago, despite his criticism of Labour for doing the same, lays bare the Reform leader’s hypocrisy.

Brand was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for rape and sexual assault on Monday. An investigation by The Times has revealed that Brand has been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by a further six women. 

As reported by The Guardian, Farage was a guest on Brand’s online podcast in July 2024, nine months after allegations of sexual assault against Brand were made public in media reports, but before he was charged in April 2025.

Farage appeared on the podcast alongside Dan Bongino, a Donald Trump supporter, and Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist who was murdered in September 2025.

On the podcast, Brand suggested he and Farage had been former “adversaries” but had found “common ground” over “anti-establishmentism”. 

Farage had commented on the allegations against Brand in September 2023 during his show on GB News.

He said: “I’m not here to prejudge his guilt or his innocence, but there are many other things in his own autobiography that he’s written about his behaviour with women that are disturbing, abusive and not very pretty.”

Speaking about the allegations, Farage said: “I don’t know, it’s not for me to judge, there’s no evidence been produced. There are four people maybe five now that have come out of the woodwork.”

Farage went on to say that through his YouTube channel Brand “has upset some very powerful people”, including “big government”, “big pharma” and Bill Gates.

“If you go out there and upset people you’ve got to be pretty clear you’ve got to be pretty clear that there’s nothing they can hit you back with,” he added, suggesting that the allegations were a result of him “upsetting powerful people”. 

A Reform spokesperson has now said that Farage “regrets” appearing on Brand’s show.

However, since the verdict, Farage commented on the allegations against Brand on Australia’s News 24, saying: “It’s very difficult isn’t it, because this is two decades old, it’s ‘he said, she said’, although there’s more than one she. So these cases are always very difficult for us to judge at a distance because there is no actual hard evidence.”

Olivia Barber is a reporter at Left Foot Forward