Russell Brand mystery after social media post appears declaring: ‘Stay tuned’

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The disgraced comedian is currently serving a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

Russell Brand’s Instagram has been taken down after his conviction for rape and sexual assault – but messages are still appearing on his X account, despite the disgraced comedian serving a 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence.

The former presenter, 51, had his profile – with around five million followers – disabled by Meta days after being jailed at Southwark Crown Court in London on Monday November 9.

Brand was convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009, with the social media company confirming that his account had breached its policies.

His X profile, however, remains active, and an unidentified person has posted a response to the ban.

The message, posted on Brand’s X account late on Wednesday night, read: ‘There never was a Russell Brand, according to @Meta. Thank God for @elonmusk.’

Screenshots accompanying the post showed notifications from Meta informing the account holder that the Instagram profile had been disabled for going against the platform’s community standards.

The person responsible for publishing the message has not been identified, and there is no confirmation Brand personally authorised it from prison.

A Meta spokesperson confirmed the removal to TMZ, saying the account ‘violates our policies’.

According to the US outlet, the decision was made under Meta’s Account Integrity policy specifically, which allows the company to restrict or disable accounts that ‘engage in off-platform activity that can lead to harm’.

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