Kirsty Gallacher breaks her silence after deleting Instagram post supporting brother-in-law Russell Brand | The Sun

KIRSTY Gallacher has broken her silence after appearing to delete her Instagram story supporting her brother-in-law Russell Brand.

The TV star had shared a post of support in the hours before Brand was accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse.

A bombshell report from The Times included allegations of a string of sexual offences made by four women.

The alleged crimes reportedly took place between 2006 and 2013.

Brand has denied all allegations against him.

In a YouTube video posted the day before The Times article was published, Brand told his 6.6million subscribers that while he was "promiscuous" all his relationships were consensual.

He said any claims of wrongdoing were "untrue".

Smooth Radio presenter Kirsty shared a link to the clip accompanied by a red loveheart on her personal Instagram account.

However, that post then appeared to have been deleted, with only a story posted 23 hours before visible.

Kirsty has now broken her silence to wish her best friend Natalie Pinkham a happy birthday.

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She wrote: "Happy birthday to this special woman, how lucky am I to have you in my life."

Kirsty has not made any further comment on the allegations since they have been released.

Likewise, her sister and Brand's wife Laura has not spoken out in the wake of the claims and has seemingly deleted her own Instagram.

Meanwhile, BBC Director General Tim Davie has declined to rule out an external enquiry into the Brand allegations.

He stressed the issues are "not wholly historic".

And YouTube suspended the monetisation of the 48-year-old's channel for “violating our Creator Responsibility policy”.

In a statement, YouTube said: "We have suspended monetisation on Russell Brand's channel for violating our Creator Responsibility policy.

"If a creator's off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community."

The company said that it had suspended the channel from the YouTube Partner Program "following serious allegations against the creator".

It comes after a former model claimed Brand tailed her through the streets demanding sex for what “felt like a lifetime”.

She said: “He’s like the Terminator. You can’t get rid of him.”

A source also claimed Brand's father-in-law begged his daughter Laura Gallacher to end her relationship with the shamed comedian.

Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon has said "terrible behaviour" towards women has been "historically tolerated" in the industry.

She added:  "The allegations made against Russell Brand are horrendous and as a CEO of Channel 4 and as a woman in our industry, I found the behaviours described in Dispatches and The Sunday Times and The Times articles disgusting and saddening.

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Russell Brand’s denial in full

Hello there, you awakening wonders.

Now this isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story I am the news.

I have received two extremely disturbing letters – well a letter and an email.

One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuff – like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.

But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque, attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream – when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I have written about extensively in my books I was very very promiscuous

Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent. And I'm being transparent about it now as well. 

And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play?

Particularly when we have seen coordinated media attacks before – like with Joe Rogan when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn't approve of and we saw a spate of headlines from media outlets across the world using the same language.

I’m aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while ‘Watch out Russell, they are coming for you, you are getting too close to the truth, Russell Brand did not kill himself’.

I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles ‘Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorist, Russell Brand’s right wing’.

I’m aware of news media making phone calls, sending letters to people I know for ages and ages.

It’s been clear to me or at least it feels to me like there's a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices and I mean my voice along with your voice.

I don't mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very very serious criminal allegations. 

Also it’s worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack

Now I don't want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I'm being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together

We are obviously going to look into this matter because it’s very, very serious. In the meantime I want you to stay close, stay awake but more important than any of that if you can, please, stay free.

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