Jo Whiley reveals creepy message from disgraced Russell Brand that makes her 'shudder'
Russell Brand was jailed for 10 years and six months on Monday (09.11.26) after a jury found him guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault against four women between 2004 and 2009.
Russell Brand's creepy message to Jo Whiley makes her "shudder" after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault.
The 51-year-old disgraced star was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison on Monday (09.11.26) after a jury found him guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault against four women between 2004 and 2009.
Days after his sentencing, radio host Jo, 61, revealed that Brand called her a MILF ("Mother I'd Like to F***"), referring to an attractive older woman who has children, in a guest book that she gets celebrities to sign when they appear on her show.
On the latest episode of her and 55-year-old Zoe Ball's Dig It podcast, mum-of-four Jo said: "I've got a show book that people sign my book when they come on the show, and I've got a signature from Russell.
"It's got the word; he just refers to me as a MILF, and I feel like I keep looking at the bookshelf. It's like it's burning a hole in my bookshelf at the moment.
"I'm sitting in the living room like those words are there. I'm going to have to tear the page out and burn it. I really am because it just makes me shudder, but that was what you expected, I think, when you met him."
The BBC Radio 2 star has daughters India, 34, and Coco, 18, as well as sons Jude, 27, and Cassius, 25, with her husband, music executive Steve Morton.
She "cried" alongside Coco when Mr Justice Bennathan handed Brand a sentence of 10 years and six months in prison after a jury found him guilty of offences following a four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London.
Jo said: "It just felt seismic. It felt extraordinarily important, and there seems to have been, since then, this lament from women. I've just seen it over and over again, and I cried.
"It's for every woman who's ever been at the hands of somebody who's abused them, whether it's sexual or domestic.
"I think for everyone it just felt like this massive empathy amongst women and from men as well.
"I think this kind of understanding of the effect that this kind of behaviour has had on generation after generation of women."
Zoe added: "I found it so harrowing. I think everybody has.
"I think it's been a real sort of collective feeling of you know horror and upset, and then ultimately, I guess relief that finally something has something big has happened that you hope is going to help women.
"I think the thing that really struck me during this trial was the harrowing detail that these incredible brave women had to go through at the hands of the defense as well."
The jury acquitted Brand on two more rape charges, as well as one count of attempted indecent assault.
He remains under investigation over two further allegations of rape.
The comedian-and-actor must serve two-thirds of his total sentence before being eligible for parole. He will be on the sex offenders' register for life.
