Katherine Ryan opens up about 'dangerous male comic' with 'tight jeans' at award show
Host Katherine Ryan opened up at the Glamour awards to guests about a comic who she claims is a sexual predator, who she has never named
Comic Katherine Ryan opened up at the Glamour awards about an unnamed "dangerous male comic" who she believes was a sexual predator.
It comes after allegations of sexual misconduct, including rape, were made against Russell Brand, all of which he denies. Comic Katherine appeared with Brand on Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018, when she reportedly put allegations to him that did not make the final edit.
While Katherine has never mentioned Russell by name, at the Glamour awards on Tuesday night, she described the comic as wearing "unnecessarily tight jeans" and "a beanie indoors".
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Katherine initially refused to appear alongside him in 2018, but relented, telling the audience: "I accepted the gig but every time I had to speak to him I would say stuff like 'I'm not getting paid enough to be here, especially for how many times my face will be on the news when your victims come forward' and fun banter like that."
Katherine, named a Feminist Hero at the ceremony, recalls several male comics got in touch with her when she first spoke out about the man - whom she has still never named.
"I didn't know what they wanted so I showed these texts to my husband and he said 'Oh they just want a proof text, they want you to send them back something nice so they can show their agent and they can show their wife that you definitely weren't talking about them.'
"So I had to copy and paste like 100 times: 'Do you really think you should be texting me after everything that happened between us?'"
Katherine first opened up in in 2022, during a BBC interview with Louis Theroux, in which she revealed she had, five years earlier, called out an unnamed man as a "perpetrator of sexual assault" when they appeared on a comedy show together. She had previously been criticised for not naming the person she was referring to in the BBC interview. Speaking last week, she said she didn't regret speaking out.
"I didn't think it was going to get the mileage that it did, because it wasn't news to me. Everybody already knew [about it]. So why, seven years later, did they decide to actually care and make a big deal of it? That shocked me, but I didn't regret it.
"I feel like I did what I did with the information that I had. I chose to handle it a certain way. I wasn't even trying to warn anybody. I was just trying to make sure he knew that I knew. I wasn't going to be another person who pandered to him or was impressed by him or smiled at him. I just decided to be a c**t."
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