Russell Model has been charged with two new offences, as reported by the Metropolitan Police.

The actor and comic, 50, is dealing with two further costs, one rely of rape and one rely of sexual assault, from two girls.

Model will seem at Westminster Magistrates’ Court docket on January 20, 2026, in relation to those two further costs.

Particulars about these costs haven’t been launched, however they’re two further costs from two girls who usually are not concerned in Model’s different costs from April 2025.

Lionel Idan, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, confirmed that these have been additionally historic incidents happening round 16 years in the past.

‘These new costs relate to separate studies of non-recent offences in 2009, involving two further girls.’

Model has now spoken out in a video shared on social media, during which he addressed current ‘time of nice darkness’ and that he was wanting ahead to talking concerning the ‘fact’.

In a video taken whereas he was driving in his automotive, Model stated: ‘You’re all conscious of that, a time of confusion and dispute and battle, however I’ve realized in my very own life that assault can result in grace.’

‘I’m so grateful for the chance in my very own life that I get to take part in change and transformation and progress and love, and I really feel so blessed that I’ve the chance to atone for the numerous issues through the years that I did fallacious, and the chance to make sure that folks perceive the reality of my state of affairs and state of affairs,’ he stated.

He then spoke concerning the media, stating that the UK ‘seems to be utilizing paperwork more and more to legitimise authority’, after which addressed these he had ‘harmed’.

‘I pray Lord, that anybody that I’ve harmed or harm in my years of mindlessness in sin can be healed. Lord, I pray for infinite mild and fantastic therapeutic for them, and I pray, Lord, for absolutely the fact of who I’m to be abundantly revealed.’

He concluded: ‘There are going to be huge staged…I don’t wish to say battles, trials, is what I’m going to name them trials. However because it says in James, we think about it nice pleasure once we face trials of any type.’

He then wished his followers a Merry Christmas.

The earlier 5 costs, involving 4 girls, embrace two counts of rape, one rely of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault.

Model pleaded not responsible to rape and sexual assault earlier this 12 months when dealing with these 5 earlier costs, with a trial scheduled to start at Southwark Crown Court docket on June 16, 2026.

Detectives started investigating in September 2023 after a number of allegations from alleged victims.

Channel 4’s Dispatches and The Sunday Instances then alleged a number of offences happening between the late 90s and early noughties.

The costs in opposition to him, as heard in court docket earlier this 12 months, embrace allegedly raping a girl in a resort room when she attended a Labour Celebration convention in 1999. One other lady accused Model of indecent assault after being allegedly grabbed by her forearm by him as he tried to tug her right into a male rest room at a tv station in 2001.

The court docket heard from a 3rd individual, who was a TV employee Model met in Soho 21 years in the past. He’s accused of grabbing her breasts earlier than allegedly orally raping her after pulling her into a bathroom.

The fourth complainant is a radio station employee who met Model throughout his time working for Channel 4’s Huge Brother’s Huge Mouth between 2004 and 2005.

Model has maintained his innocence on the subject of earlier costs, and claimed that any encounters have been ‘consensual’, whereas declaring he was ‘by no means was a rapist’.

In a video posted on X, the comic stated: ‘I’m now going to have the chance to defend these costs in court docket, and I’m extremely grateful for that.’

He stated within the clip: ‘I’ve all the time advised you guys that once I was younger and single earlier than I had a spouse and household, who’re there simply out of shot. I used to be a idiot, man, I used to be a idiot earlier than I lived within the mild of the Lord.

‘I used to be a drug addict, a intercourse addict, and an imbecile however what I by no means was, was a rapist.’

Detective Chief Inspector Tariq Farooqi from the Metropolitan Police, who’s main the investigation, stated in a assertion to the press on December 23: ‘The ladies who’ve made studies, together with these linked to the 2 new costs, proceed to obtain assist from specifically skilled officers.

‘The Met’s investigation stays ongoing, and detectives urge anybody affected by this case, or anybody with info, to return ahead and converse with police.

‘A devoted workforce of investigators will be reached by way of electronic mail at CIT@met.police.uk.

‘Help can be obtainable by way of the unbiased charity Rape Disaster by contacting the 24/7 Rape and Sexual Abuse Help Line.’

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