Background
From April 2006 through to October 2008, Russell Brand presented the weekly BBC radio show The Russell Brand Show. In almost every show Brand was joined by his co-host Matt Morgan who would often steer him in certain directions regarding what to talk about. However, following an argument about the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, which Brand hosted in September of 2008(and which led to him receiving death threats, due to his criticism of then-US President George W. Bush and the Jonas Brothers' purity rings), Morgan refused to perform on Brand's radio show. As a substitution, Brand called in a variety of his celebrity friends, including Noel Gallagher, Alan Carr and, most famously, Jonathan Ross, to co-present the show each week, . Commentators have stated that Morgan would never have allowed the calls to be made.
On 11 October 2008, David Baddiel co-hosted Brand's radio show. Baddiel recalled having met Georgina Baillie at Brand's home and being told that her grandfather was actor Andrew Sachs. According to Baddiel, Baillie said "Don't tell him I was here!"
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