Brand, 48, was signed up as the headline act at the Wanderlust Festival in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, three dates scheduled for February next year, but those plans are now off.
"Due to circumstances that have recently come to light, Wanderlust and Russell Brand have agreed that Mr Brand will not be appearing at the Wanderlust Festival," Charlotte Hill, the chief executive of Wanderlust Australia, told 9news.com.au.
"Take the comedic path to wellness with Russell Brand," a now-defunct promotional poster for the 2024 festival read. "He wants to help with meditation, he's all in this wellness world … it just makes me so mad that he has a platform for that," the woman, who was given the pseudonym Nadia, told British newspaperThe Wanderlust festival has links to Light Warrior, an investment group co-founded by rich lister Radek Sali and former Goldman Sachs investment banker Adam Gregory.
Wanderlust also sells vitamins and supplements, a sector where Sali made his $250 million fortune after selling his company Swisse, a vitamin business, to Hong Kong's Biostime in 2015.
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