Celebrity peer Lord Brocket won't stand trial for allegedly raping a woman for more than two years

CELEBRITY peer Lord Brocket will not stand trial for allegedly raping a woman for more than two years.

Lord Charles Brocket, 73, a former contestant on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, appeared at Isleworh Crown Court today, September 30 2025, for a plea hearing after being charged with two counts of rape last month<August>.

He is charged with two counts of rape against the same woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in London on August 10 this year.

A further charge of sexual assault by penetration against the same woman in the village of Warbleton, East Sussex, on May 5 this year, is no longer on the indictment, the court heard.

Lord Brocket, who appeared under his full name of Charles Nall-Cain Brocket, did not enter a plea today as the CPS had failed to meet its obligation to file necessary court documents on time and a barrister was only instructed to the case on September 25.

The aristocrat, who it is understood plans to deny the offences, was given extra time to enter his plea and consider making an application to dismiss the case.

The court heard that the complainant's evidence in chief will be by a recorded video interview made on August 28, when the alleged offences were reported.

Changes were made to his conditional bail, with an electronic GPS tag removed, but he must not enter the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

A new plea hearing was set for January 9 with Brockett having to serve his defence case statement by January 30.

A seven day trial was set for November 1 2027.

His Honour Judge Martin Edmunds KC apologised for the delay before the trial, citing the national court backlog crisis as the reason.

Brocket finished fourth in the 2004 series of I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! when Kerry Katona, the former pop singer, was declared the winner.

He went on to publish the autobiography Call Me Charlie in September that year.

The following year he hosted the ITV game show Scream! If You Want to Get Off, and went on to present Privates Exposed, a behind-the-scenes programme for Bad Lads' Army, on ITV2.

He is the 3rd Baron Brocket and son of the late Ronald Nall-Cain and Elizabeth Trotter.

He became a baron aged just 15, inheriting the rundown Brocket Hall, upon the death of his grandfather Arthur Nall-Cain, as his father had died when he was just nine.

He went on to convert the hall into a hotel and conference centre and in 2007, he launched Brocket Hall Foods, a range of groceries.

The Old Etonian served in the 14th/20th King's Hussars as a Lieutenant in Germany and was known in the 1980s and 1990s for a love of classic cars, owning up to forty-two Ferraris.