Katherine Ryan, the comedian and writer, has said she faced “pushback” after refusing to name a male comic she accused of being a sexual predator, insisting that “everyone knows who it is”.
During an episode of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4, Ryan was asked about an interview last year with Louis Theroux in which she had described confronting the man during the recording of a television series.
She told Lauren Laverne: “I got a lot of pushback, like, why won’t you say who it is? It’s because – that everyone knows who it is. What they’re asking me for is the women’s names. And that’s what I won’t give.”
The episode was recorded on September 6, before a joint investigation by The Times,
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