Katherine Ryan appears to speak about Russell Brand as she addresses ‘elephant in the room’

Ryan is said to have called Brand out on Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018

The comedian and writer reportedly joked about the "elephant in the room" on Wednesday evening at the RTS Cambridge, MailOnline reported.

However, she reportedly later insisted the remark was in reference to her recent two-stone weight loss, as she avoided any references to Brand who was the focus of a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches over the weekend.

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Deadline has since said it has confirmed with multiple sources that the Canadian was referring to Brand and Roast Battle.

Brand worked alongside Ryan as a judge for one season of Comedy Central's Roast Battle in 2018, after reportedly being left angry when his fellow comic allegedly called him out on camera. The comments never made the final cut, but ultimately led to Brand not returning to the programme for another season.

Deadline reported Brand was "absolutely furious" after being "targeted" by Ryan whose interview with Theroux has resurfaced in recent days.

In a statement on Friday ahead of the report, Brand said the allegations against him “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.”

He continued: “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 am being transparent about it now as well.

“To see that transparency metastasised into something criminal, that I absolutely deny, makes me question – is there another agenda at play?”

Brand has claimed that there is witnesses whose evidence “directly contradicts the narrative that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct.”

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