Vanessa Feltz reveals she broke off her friendship with Russell Brand after 'chilling' rapist asked if he could have sex with her 15-year-old daughter

Vanessa Feltz has revealed she was so 'horrified and disgusted' when Russell Brand asked her live on air if he could have sex with her and her two teenage daughters that she broke off their friendship forever.

In a now notorious clip from 2006, Brand – who is facing a lengthy jail sentence after being found guilty of rape – repeatedly asks Ms Feltz if he can 'have it off' with her daughters – the youngest of whom was just 15 at the time.

The TV presenter appeared on the convicted rapist's MTV chat show, 1 Leicester Square, in 2006. 

Speaking on her LBC radio show, Ms Feltz recalled the moment and said she 'stopped being friendly with him that night'. 

Ms Feltz said: 'I wasn't able to laugh it off, I didn't want to laugh it off, I didn't think it was at all funny.

'I was horrified, I was absolutely disgusted in fact, even with a baying audience roaring in the bear pit, I could not pretend to think what he said was funny.

'It didn't feel like a joke and I stopped being friendly with him that night.'

Mid-way through their conversation on the show, the comedian loudly asked Ms Feltz:  'Can I have it off with either you or your daughters?'

Ms Feltz grimaced at the host's brazen vulgarity, replying: 'No, you may not.'

Brand went on: 'Come on, some of them are adults.'

Appearing visibly more offended, Ms Feltz struck a more serious tone, telling him: 'I've got two daughters, the answer is no.'

Brand did not relent, asking again: 'None of them?'

'Neither,' Ms Feltz replied, adding: 'Will you stop it.'

Brand pressed again, saying: 'Hold on, you've two whole daughters and I can't even have one. Selfish.'

Becoming even more serious, Ms Feltz told Brand: 'When you have your own daughters, you'll know why I said that.'

Brand then blurted: 'Well I won't sleep with them.'

An uncomfortable Ms Feltz replied, 'I'm not sure about that,' in a frustrated jab towards the host.

Brand added: 'I'm only mucking about, I'm not actually going to sleep with my own kids. It's only a joke. It's only words.'

In her LBC slot, Ms Feltz also spoke again of the time she was assaulted by another convicted sex pest Rolf Harris, while they were in Channel Four's Big Breakfast bed.

She said: 'His wife was about two feet away, he was adored by the nation, loved by the Royal Family for all I knew I was the first woman he had ever treated that way.

'There was no chance on earth that I would have dreamt of launching a complaint or making any sort of fuss about it.

'I stayed completely silent, I told my then husband at the time and a couple of friends but other than that I never said a word about it.'

Commenting on why rape victims were sometimes reluctant to come forward if their attackers were celebrities, Ms Feltz added: 'I see why reporting a sexual assault or rape is traumatic and nerve wracking even terrifying.

'The thought of facing an inquisition from your attacker's legal team suggesting you are a liar fantastic, that you did consent, that you are a promiscuous, sex obsessed or have a history of debauchery would be more than enough to deter most women.'

It comes after Ms Feltz spoke about the encounter on Good Morning Britain following Brand being found guilty. 

She said: 'I was quite friendly with him. I found him vastly entertaining. I was absolutely mesmerized by the stream of words, the charisma. I'd never seen a presenter anything like him.

'He just announced, in this unbelievably dispassionate way, that he would like to have sex with me and both my daughters. The younger one was 15 at the time.

'I couldn't pretend I thought that was funny. It didn't seem to be a joke.

'I realised then that there was something extremely chilling about him. Something very ruthless and a bit scary and intimidating.

'What he really relished was power over women. He wanted to have sex with the ones who didn't want to have sex with him, rather than the very many who did.'