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Jo Brand on Strictly, strippers and… staying safe

Jo Brand on Strictly, strippers and… staying safe

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Jo Brand is a woman with staying power - she's been on our radar for the best part of three decades and the media have cast her as everything from man-hater to national treasure during that time.She's no man-hater, of course. And she'd prefer to "maintain a decent taint of national disgrace" than be a national treasure.The comedian recently hit the headlines when she rebuked Have I Got News For You panellist Ian Hislop for not taking sexual harassment seriously enough.Brand, who was hosting the show, said: "As the only representative of the female gender, it doesn't have to be high level [harassment] for women to feel under siege in somewhere like the House of Commons. And for women, if you're const...