Brand 'offered drug addict £50 to have sex with his girlfriend'

SHAMELESS Russell Brand reduced a heroin addict to tears by offering him £50 to let the star sleep with his sex worker girlfriend, it was claimed yesterday.

- Cyril Dixon

The under-fire comedian and broadcaster allegedly made the indecent proposal while making a TV documentary about the couple.

Brand, 48, also took drugs with the pair while their toddler daughter was left with his TV production partner at their squalid home, it is claimed.

The project was shelved after a telly boss rejected it because it could have led to the child being taken into care, Brand's pal said.

Details of the claims emerged as the star refutes allegations of rape, sexual assault and grooming from four women, including one who was only 16 at the time.

The former Radio 2 and Big Brother presenter has denied the accusations and claims his relationships were consensual.