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Russell Brand has revealed that the recording of the obscene messages left on the answering machine of the Fawlty Towers' actor Andrew Sachs had been toned down before it was aired.In an interview with the Observer Magazine, the first time that he has spoken at length about the events that led to his recent resignation from the BBC, Brand says: 'We took out the more personal stuff.' The comedian, who is now in Los Angeles, says he also believed Sachs had approved the contents of the pre-recorded radio show: 'The thing was, we were told that Andrew Sachs had okayed it.' He goes on to explain that he and his guest, Jonathan Ross, had been reassured by the fact that the 25-year-old independent producer of the programme had spoken to Sachs and agreed to edit out the lewdest sections of dialogue, which concerned Brand's sexual encounter with Sachs's 23-year-old granddaughter. 'The grey area is that our brilliant young producer, Nic Philps, called Andrew Sachs afterwards and said, "Is it OK? Can we use it? Do you mind?" And he said, "Oh yeah, but can you tone it down a bit?" So we did. We took out the more personal stuff.'Brand says neither he nor Ross would have behaved in the same way on a live show. 'Because it was a pre-record situation, it was a little bit more loose.'Some radio sources have suggested that not all of the series of offensive messages, aired on Brand's show, were left on Sachs's answering machine, but were recorded separately. The BBC said it could not confirm or deny this claim.Yesterday, the corporation broadcast an extended apology on Radio 2, but refused to comment on the findings of its continuing internal inquiry. Meg Poole, Sachs's agent, was interviewed in private at length by BBC executives on Tuesday and has received no further word from the corporation. It was Poole who first played a recording of the offending show to Sachs after the broadcast and then wrote a complaint to the BBC on his behalf. 'Andrew was surprised by the length of the broadcast,' she told The Observer last week. 'He said to me he had thought they were not going to run it.' Yesterday's Radio 2 apology said: 'On 18 October, the BBC broadcast an exchange between Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on the Russell Brand show on Radio 2. This concerned the actor Andrew Sachs and his granddaughter, Georgina Baillie. Some of this exchange was left on the voicemail of Mr Sachs. The conversation was grossly offensive and an unacceptable intrusion into the private lives of both Mr Sachs and Ms Baillie.'Brand argues this weekend that he had no 'malicious intent': 'It was like an evolving, rolling thing. If you listen, I say "sorry" more than I say anything offensive. The message is mostly an apology. In fact, it is the acknowledgement of how wrong it was that is the source of the comedy.' The comedian and actor, who is to appear alongside Adam Sandler in the forthcoming Disney film Bedtime Stories, to be released on Boxing Day, and who has been cast as Johnny Depp's brother in the next Pirates of the Caribbean film, said that he accepted full responsibility for doing something 'daft'. 'What's difficult about the whole thing is that it was completely devoid of malice and there's been a retrospective application of cruelty and intention to cause offence,' he said. Brand has resigned from the BBC, while Ross has been suspended without pay for three months. Brand also tells the magazine he will not let the incident change his style of humour: 'I can't let it change what I do, other than when I make a programme have an editor look at all aspects of it, to see if it will offend on a personal level.'He denies the allegation made by fellow Radio 2 presenter Paul Gambaccini that he had sacked a series of producers on the show.In a documentary about the events, to be broadcast on Wednesday evening on Channel Five, Baillie, a burlesque dancer, will say that she regrets the impact of the incident on the careers of Brand and Ross.Russell BrandJonathan RossBBCRadioguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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