EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity peer Lord Brocket given extra time to enter plea to rape charges

CELEBRITY peer Lord Brocket has been given additional time to enter a plea to charges that he allegedly raped and sexually assaulted a woman.

Lord Charles Brocket, 73, a former contestant on I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, was due to enter a plea at Isleworh Crown Court today<Jan92025> after being charged with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one of sexual activity without consent last August.

Lord Brocket, who is being prosecuted under his full name of Charles Nall-Cain Brocket, is charged with the offences against the same woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in London on August 10 last year.

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 at a hearing last September.

However, his defence made a further application to delay the plea ahead of today's hearing, the court has said.

He is now due to enter his pleas on April 1.

The court earlier 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.

A seven day trial is still set for November 1 2027.

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.