Singer Katherine McPhee has spoken out after a clip resurfaced displaying her bouncing up and down on Russell Model‘s lap.
The 39-year-old mentioned the incident, which occurred throughout The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon in 2013, was ‘innocent’.
Model, now 48, appeared on the discuss present a decade in the past and tried to flirt with the married actress.
However on Monday the singer – who has been married twice – poured chilly water on such recommendations.
‘This particular incident was over 10 years in the past and it was innocent,’ she said.
The video resurfaced as Russell has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by 4 ladies in the course of the peak of his fame, following a joint investigation by The Sunday Instances, The Instances and Channel 4 Dispatches.
Resurfaced: Video footage of Russell Model suggestively bouncing Katharine McPhee on his lap has been unearthed within the wake of bombshell allegations
Awkward: The comic, 48, appeared on Jimmy Fallon ‘s Tonight present again in 2013 the place he tried to flirt outrageously with the married actress, 39
The explosive allegations are mentioned to have taken place between 2006 and 2013, whereas Russell was a presenter for BBC Radio 2 and Channel 4. He has denied the claims.
Through the Jimmy Fallon interview, Russell refused to maneuver out of the interview chair as Katharine stepped as much as discuss to the host.
The tv presenter grabbed Katharine’s hand with the actress jokingly sitting on his lap. He informed Jimmy: ‘She’s welcome to take a seat right here’.
The host then informed Russell: ‘No Russell, do not even say for the queen, you’ll be able to’t.’
The comic then shouted: ‘For the queen’ as he suggestively bounced Katharine, who appeared shocked, and rapidly leapt up.
Jimmy put his hand to his face and appeared confused as Russell informed Katharine: ‘you are lovely’.
Jimmy mentioned: ‘Russell, please cease. Look away.’
Model, who is legendary for his acerbic, extremely sexualised and outrageously crude comedy, joked: ‘I will simply sit right here with my sexual charisma’.
Russell continued to flirt with Katharine all through the interview, earlier than coming to the realisation she was married to actor Nick Cokas, 58. The couple had married in 2008 however later divorced in 2016. She then married for a second time, this time to composer David Foster, 73.
Model continued: ‘As , I’ve introduced it, I discover Katharine very enticing and I believe when she mentioned ‘change numbers,’ I believed issues I would wish to change together with her.
Russell then shouted: ‘Numbers. Genes. Genetic data. Knowledge.’
Controversy: Jimmy tried to intervene as Russell began bouncing Katherine on his lap
‘I did not know you had been married!’: Russell continued to flirt with Katharine all through the interview, earlier than coming to the realisation that she was married to actor Nick Cokas, 58
Ex-husband: Katharine married Nick in 2008. They break up in 2016 (pictured in 2012)
After Jimmy spoke about Katharine’s husband, Russell interjected: ‘I did not know you had been married. I’ll f**okay off now.’
It comes as The Instances and Sunday Instances declare ‘a number of ladies’ have come ahead with undisclosed allegations about Model’s behaviour in the course of the early 2000s in wake of their joint investigation with Channel 4 which was printed on Saturday.
The maverick actor and stand-up comedian has strenuously denied any wrongdoing and blamed the ‘mainstream media’ for the ‘litany of astonishing, relatively baroque assaults’.
The newest allegations – which the newspaper says haven’t been investigated, however will now be ‘rigorously checked’ – observe accusations from 4 ladies, together with one who claims she was sexually assaulted by Model throughout a three-month relationship with him when she was 16 and nonetheless at college.
Denial: Model has lashed out at ‘aggressive’ media claims as he insisted any relationships he had ‘throughout his time of promiscuity’ had been ‘consensual’ in a 2min 45sec monologue
Allegations: Russell has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by 4 ladies. Alice (pictured) alleges Russell sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years previous
The BBC is now additionally going through ‘pressing questions’ after it was claimed Model used his company-provided automobile service to select the lady up from college.
It comes as each BBC and Channel 4 have launched inner investigations into separate accusations of predatory behaviour by Model in direction of employees and viewers members in the course of the time of his employment.
Channel 4 has since eliminated all programmes linked to Model from its web site, together with episodes of The Nice British Bake Off and Huge Brother’s Huge Mouth through which he was featured, The Every day Telegraph reported.
Netflix has since been urged to take away his comedy particular, titled Re:Beginning, from its streaming catalogue.
The BBC’s probe was introduced minutes earlier than Scotland Yard piled on the strain by asserting that detectives wish to converse to the comic’s alleged victims.
Among the many complaints raised within the investigation had been allegations by one girl, who alleged Model raped her in opposition to the wall in his Los Angeles residence.
One other girl alleged the comic sexually assaulted her whereas she labored with him in Los Angeles and that he threatened her with authorized motion if she informed anybody.
Whereas the third claimed she was sexually assaulted by Model who she alleges was bodily and emotionally abusive in direction of her.
The fourth girl, known as Alice to guard her id, mentioned she was 16 when he choked her throughout a sexual act.
She alleges he took her virginity, was ‘preoccupied’ together with her being ‘harmless and pure’, and infrequently referred to her as ‘The Little one’.
Alice described his behaviour in direction of her as ‘grooming’ as Model would allegedly present her with scripts on how one can deceive her dad and mom into permitting her to go to him. She additionally claimed he would ship his ‘BBC automobile’ to her secondary college to select her up.
‘The primary time I used it, he informed me it was booked to take him to his radio present however he had a pal taking him as an alternative so I ought to use that automobile,’ she informed The Instances.
She claimed the chauffeur as soon as took her from Model’s residence to her grandmother’s home and that on a separate event the identical automobile ‘picked me up from college’.
Alice added: ‘It was the identical automobile…I knew that that was a BBC automobile.’
The BBC didn’t initially decide to an inquiry however amid the rising outcry, it shifted its place final night time and a spokesman mentioned it was ‘urgently trying into the problems’.
In a press release, a BBC spokesman mentioned: ‘The documentary and related stories contained severe allegations, spanning numerous years.
‘Russell Model labored on BBC radio programmes between 2006 and 2008 and we’re urgently trying into the problems raised.’
Model has lashed out at ‘aggressive’ media claims as he insisted any relationships he had ‘throughout his time of promiscuity’ had been ‘consensual’ in a 2min 45sec monologue to his 11million followers on X and 6.5million subscribers on YouTube.
He accused the information organisations of coordinating an assault on him, telling his followers: ‘Is there one other agenda at play?
‘Notably after we’ve seen coordinated media assaults earlier than, like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a drugs that the mainstream media did not approve of, and we noticed a spate of headlines from media shops internationally utilizing the identical language.’
