'We are coming for you and hope you never sleep again': Celebrity victims of 'toxic' Russell Brand vow to expose other famous sex predators - as comic faces claims from six more women

Comedian Josie Long has alleged that Russell Brand physically assaulted her when he bit her face backstage despite her telling him she 'did not like it'.The 44-year-old is among a number of female celebrities who have spoken out against Brand after he was jailed for more than 10 years for rape and three counts of sexual assault.Long, who has been joined by Katherine Ryan, Lily Allen, Jo Whiley, Vanessa Feltz, Jemima Goldsmith, Lorraine Kelly and Kelly Brook in condemning Brand's predatory behaviour warned other male stars: 'We are coming for you and I hope you never sleep again.'It comes as Brand - who is reportedly being assessed for a transfer to the notorious HMP Wakefield dubbed 'Monster Mansion' - has also been accused of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by six more women. Long told the Novara Live podcast: 'I actually had an experience with Russell Brand... where backstage he would bite my face and I would tell him I didn't like it and he would chase me around.'I would like giggle because I was 22 and it was overwhelming. But I remember I had to be very… it took a lot for him to stop. And it's funny now to reckon with that and to be like, 'Oh, that was a physical assault, wasn't it?''I just simply can't tell you how toxic that culture was back then and how some elements of comedy persist to be that toxic and how a lot of those people who were in positions of power then have continued to be in positions of power and got more powerful.'So I am very grateful for the inroads that have been made by everyone else, but it's a lot.' Stand-up comic Josie Long has condemned the 'toxic' culture within the comedy industry Russell Brand is pictured in 2006 at the GQ Men of the Year Awards at the Royal Opera HouseSpeaking after Brand was locked up for ten-and-a-half years, Long added: 'I feel sad sometimes because I was very young and I look back and I feel angry at myself for not thriving on these panel shows, for example, and sometimes it does take things like this to go 'well, how could we possibly have'.'I'm a female comedian... I started when I was 17 and for the first ten years of my life all I got was people saying women comedians only talk about women's things and it really made me feel like I couldn't speak to my own experiences.'Long concluded: 'Let's look forward to the next ten years and also please let me say this very clearly, all other misogynists in comedy, we are coming for you and I hope you never sleep again.'Long has joined a long list of female celebrities who have spoken out against Brand before and after his convictions. Comedian Katherine Ryan has spoken of her 'grief and relief' following Brand being locked up. She previously claimed in an interview with Louis Theroux that there was a 'predator' in the showbiz industry.Ryan said she could not name the celebrity as it would be a 'litigious minefield', but she said she had appeared on a TV programme with him and called him a 'predator' to 'his face'. It is widely believed that Ryan was referring to her time on Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018 with Brand. But the remarks were cut by producers and never broadcast, and Brand left the show after six episodes. Comedian Katherine Ryan has spoken of her 'grief and relief' following Brand being locked up Jo Whiley pictured with Russell Brand in 2013 Jo Whiley has also revealed a message Brand wrote to her calling her a 'MILF', an acronym for 'Mother I'd Like to F***', makes her 'shudder'.Speaking on their Dig It podcast on Thursday, Whiley explained: '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.'Whiley said she 'cried' alongside her daughter Coco, 18, as she recalled the moment she found out about his verdict.'It just felt seismic,' she said. '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.'She added: '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 behavior has had on generation after generation of women.'TV producer Jemima Goldsmith has also accused her ex-partner Brand of 'violence, coercive control and abuse'.'I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident,' she wrote in a post on X.Goldsmith described how she opted not to press charges at the time due to fears about the impact on her life and the lives of her children, but did not go into detail about what is alleged to have happened.Thames Valley Police has confirmed it attended the scene and 'ensured the victim's partner left the address.' Lily Allen also spoke out against Brand after a clip of him joking about her being raped resurfaced in 2023.The singer reflected on the moment as 'really horrendous' but had stayed silent because of the 'culture' at the time.She told Grazia UK that she had been aware of the clip resurfacing 'where I was on a chat show with Brand, Noel Fielding and Jonathan Ross. And there are comments, I think, about me being raped or something.'Allen added: 'And I laugh along with it. In retrospect, that's really horrendous. It makes me uncomfortable, but I don't think I felt that at the time, because it was the culture.' Lily Allen grimaces during an uncomfortable exchange between Russell Brand and Noel Fielding on a Channel 4 show in which they joked about being rapists The singer later reflected on the moment as 'really horrendous' but stayed silent because of the 'culture' at the timeIn the footage from Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year in 2007, host Jimmy Carr can be seen welcoming Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Jonathan Ross, Noel Fielding and Brand onto the show, alongside Allen – the only female guest appearing on the show.Ross looks at Brand and Fielding as he tells Carr: 'I'm a bit concerned because look where you've put us.'You've put the only sexually attractive young lady – well, the only young lady full stop, she happens to be very attractive as well – near two of the best known c***smen of the business.''I'm going to insist as a sort of uncle figure in Lily's life that she moves over there because obviously that's the sexless zone,' Ross continues, pointing to Brydon and Mitchell.'And then, Lily might go home with her dress still on.'Fielding replies: 'How dare you? We're not rapists,' much to the amusement of the audience.Carr then asks the comedian why he is wearing a cape if he is not a rapist.'It's a Jack the Ripper cape. He wasn't a rapist, he was just...' Fielding says, as Brand adds: 'A serial murderer. There is no direct corollary between capes and rape. It's just a rhyme. Leave him alone.'Brand continues: 'What if, horror of horrors, he ain't even done a rape. You could ruin his reputation.'The audience continue to laugh as Brand asks him: 'Have you done a rape?'Fielding then placed his cape across his face and said: 'Well, if I have, I'd be leaving the scene of the crime like this.'Allen can be seen looking uncomfortable throughout the exchange, glancing down at her hands and making a grimacing face at the comments.Kelly Brook has said her close friends were among those attacked by Brand and claimed she warned young women to stay away from him. Speaking on ITV's Loose Women on Tuesday, the former glamour model explained that she had warned women in the showbiz industry that Brand 'was someone you needed to be wary of'. She said: 'I have friends, very close friends that have been attacked by Russell and it's so disturbing to see what's happened over the past year.'To talk to them about it, for all Brand's victims to get justice in the way they have, I'm just so happy for them.'I speak to the women who were in these situations with Russell and I said, 'Why didn't you say anything?'One in particular said to me, 'I thought I was the only one, I didn't realise'. It's only when multiple women come forward and share their stories that you realise what's happened to you.'Ms Brook, 46, recalled warning a young woman starting out in the showbiz industry to steer clear of Brand. She continued: 'I just turned to her on camera and just said: 'Yeah stay away from Russell Brand'.'Now I didn't know about any of these allegations back then, I just knew that he was someone you needed to be wary of.'Lorraine Kelly said she was left feeling 'uncomfortable' when he touched her thigh before calling her a derogatory term during a TV appearance.The TV presenter recalled her own experience with Brand in 2023 on her ITV chat show. She was speaking in the wake of the release of the Dispatches documentary on Brand which investigated allegations of rape and sexual assault.Ms Kelly, 66, spoke about her 2007 appearance on The Graham Norton Show where she sat on the sofa alongside Brand.In the clip Brand was asked a question about his movie work before he touched Ms Kelly's thigh. 'You're wearing suspenders, Jesus Christ!' he exclaimed. 'I've taken off more than I can chew. I'm out of my depth.'Ms Kelly and Mr Norton both laughed before Brand continued: 'Yes, I have been in other films but it doesn't seem so important now I know Lorraine Kelly's a s**t.'She said she had laughed along because everyone else was and as it was the comedian's 'schtick' but looking back on it 16 years later she admitted she felt 'uncomfortable'.Speaking about her multiple encounters with Brand, she explained: 'I interviewed him a lot over that time when he was in the public eye.'I usually got the charming Russell, the flirty Russell but I have been doing this a long time and I would like to think there was a tiny bit of respect there, maybe. Although this happened.'She then aired The Graham Norton Show footage before admitting: 'That's uncomfortable to watch now, it absolutely is. Obviously, for the record, I was not wearing suspenders at all.'He was laughing, I was laughing. It's difficult looking back on it, and now I probably would have said something, but it's an entertainment show, that was his shtick.'Comedian and writer Katy Brand - who is not related to the predator - has previously spoken out against Brand too. 'If you would like to know how men like Russell Brand are able to last so long in the entertainment business without anyone doing anything, here’s just one experience I had,' she wrote on Instagram.'I wrote a TV comedy show in 2019. They wanted to cast Russell Brand. I asked if they had done due diligence on him because there were a lot of allegations at the time. 'The producer made an awkward noise and said, ‘oh that’s all rather unpleasant to think about isn’t it’, and then told me their CEO, a very powerful media figure, was taking Brand out for lunch that week anyway to persuade him to do it. 'I said I would quit if he was cast. Brand said no, so they simply abandoned the whole thing anyway. That’s how it happens. Because they don’t care until they are forced to care. Solidarity with all the victims. Please keep speaking out.' Vanessa Feltz has also spoken on how she found Brand 'scary and intimidating' when she appeared on his MTV chat show, 1 Leicester Square, in 2006.During an uncomfortable conversation between the pair, Brand continued to ask if he could 'have it off' with the broadcaster's two daughters.Initially appearing to take the joke in good humour, Ms Feltz, 64, became visibly more uncomfortable as the interview went on, with her answers ever more serious.As the awkward encounter continued, Brand then made jokes about having sex with his own future daughters.Speaking on This Morning years later, Ms Feltz said she could not pretend she thought that was funny.She said there was something 'extremely chilling' about the disgraced comedian and actor, finding him 'ruthless and a bit scary'.Last Thursday, a jury found Brand guilty of four offences dating from 2004 to 2009, after hearing from women who said they were subjected to sexual contact with Brand without their consent.Brand was convicted of forcing a 21-year-old fan into anal sex when he was at the height of his fame, groping and kissing a radio station worker, grabbing the breasts of a woman in a bar, and putting his head in the lap of a Channel 4 worker when she had been forced to give him a massage.Passing sentence, the judge called Brand 'staggeringly arrogant', and said that he had sexually assaulted women while believing that his fame and status would allow him to get away with it.The Metropolitan Police has said it has received more complaints about Brand since the trial began, two allegations of rape were made before the trial, and the force is assessing with the Crown Prosecution Service whether to bring further charges.And last night, in a further investigation by The Times and Sunday Times, six more women have come forward with accounts of alleged sexual assault, coercive behaviour and humiliation at the hands of the former Hollywood star.