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Andrew Callaghan, the 27-year-old director and journalist known for his popular Channel 5 YouTube videos, is back with his most intimate project yet: “Dear Kelly.”

The documentary is Callaghan’s first major project since his directorial debut “This Place Rules,” which premiered on HBO in 2022. It also marks his return to feature filmmaking since he paused his career in light of sexual misconduct allegations in early 2023. After apologizing for his past behavior, Callaghan went on hiatus, began attending therapy and completed a 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program. Now, he’s on tour showcasing “Dear Kelly” to fans across the country and plans to distribute it independently later this year.

“Dear Kelly” originated at a 2021 White Lives Matter rally in Huntington Beach, Calif., when Callaghan met a pro-Trump protester who called himself Kelly J. Patriot (real name: Kelly Johnson). In his man-on-the-street style, Callaghan interviewed Johnson for one of his Channel 5 videos.

Andrew Callaghan is back on YouTube, and he plans to remain active for the next 55 weeks. The filmmaker known for his man-on-the-street interviews has returned to his Channel 5 hub nine months after he was accused of sexual misconduct.

Callaghan rose to fame on the channel All Gas No Brakes, on which he traveled across the country conducting interviews with strangers. Alongside with co-founders Nic Mosher and Evan Gilbert-Katz, Callaghan split from the All Gas No Brakes hub in 2021 to launch a new venture called Channel 5. His star continued to rise when he directed This Place Rules, an HBO documentary about the January 6 uprising.

Shortly after the film’s release, Callaghan found himself in hot water. At least three women accused him of sexual coercion. One of the accusers claimed that Callaghan “wasn’t taking a simple no for an answer” after the pair met on a dating app.

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Update: Andrew Callaghan is addressing the sexual misconduct allegations and apologizing for his behavior.

“I hadn’t realized I had had this pattern that had affected multiple people. I’d like to apologize for my silence. When this stuff first came out, I was in a state of denial and shock,” Callaghan said in video shared on YouTube. “I was denounced by my closest collaborators and my name was printed in 40 different news outlets, next to the words ‘sexual misconduct.’ I just kind of spiraled into a mental health crisis.”

He continued, “I’m okay now, but I don’t think this is about me. This is about the people I’ve affected. So I just want to express my complete sympathy, support and respect for anyone that I’ve done wrong by. I really want to do better and be fully accountable for everything that I’ve done.”

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Andrew Callaghan — host of YouTube channels All Gas No Brakes and Channel5, and filmmaker behind HBO’s 2022 documentary This Place Rules — has apologized after being accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct.

Callaghan began his four-and-a-half minute YouTube clip stressing that he wants to be “fully accountable” and “transparent,” and thanks “every single person who’s came out in the past week to speak about different ways in which my behavior has made them feel uncomfortable or pressured during a sexual situation and to people who said that I’ve made unwanted advances.

Independent filmmaker and media personality Andrew Callaghan, who gained prominence for his comedic man-on-the-street Channel 5 interviews on YouTube and a new HBO documentary “This Place Rules,” has shared a video apology to further address allegations of sexual misconduct, first levied against him in early January.

The nearly five-minute video, posted on a YouTube channel credited to Callaghan on Sunday afternoon, features the 25-year-old speaking to the camera, responding to the allegations against him and sharing that he plans to seek professional treatment to address his previous behavior.

“I hadn’t realized I had had this pattern that had affected multiple people. I’d like to apologize for my silence. When this stuff first came out, I was in a state of denial and shock,” Callaghan stated. “I was denounced by my closest collaborators and my name was printed in 40 different news outlets, next to the words ‘sexual misconduct.’ I...

Andrew Callaghan has issued a statement after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Allegations came first from Caroline Elise, who posted a three-minute video on TikTok Jan. 5 where she describes an experience she had with Callaghan in 2021. Before going into the details, she explains that she had “tried to come to [Callaghan] person-to-person and tried to get him to take responsibility for what he did, but his version of what happened the night he assaulted me is so skewed.”

Elise alleges she allowed Callaghan to stay at her house for one night because he’d had a falling out with his crew members and needed somewhere to sleep, but says she was “very clear about the fact that we are not hooking up.”

“I will tell you that he eventually did get consent,” she says. “And that’s the main point, is that he eventually got consent because he wore me down.

When Charlotte was 18, she matched with a then-19-year-old man named Andrew Callaghan on Tinder. The now-24-year-old, who requested a pseudonym to protect her privacy, was familiar with Callaghan, as they had attended neighboring high schools in the Seattle area. Though Callaghan would later become well-known as the host of the popular YouTube channels All Gas No Brakes and Channel5, as well as the filmmaker behind HBO’s 2022 documentary This Place Rules, at the time she knew him as a goofy aspiring rapper who went by the name TrekGod.

Indie filmmaker Andrew Callaghan, known for his man-on-the-street Channel 5 YouTube interviews and HBO documentary “This Place Rules,” has addressed allegations of sexual misconduct that were made against him in early January.

In a statement sent to Variety, Callaghan’s legal representative said, “Andrew is devastated that he is being accused of any type of physical or mental coercion against anyone. Conversations about pressure and consent are extremely important and Andrew wants to have these conversations, so he can continue to learn and grow. While every dynamic is open to interpretation and proper communication is critical from all those involved, repeated requests for money should not be part of these conversations.”

The statement continues, “With that, balanced communication is paramount to any relationship dynamic and Andrew vows to be better in this regard, while reminding his audience that while even one concerned partner is too many, there are always multiple sides to a story.

Andrew Callaghan, the comedian behind A24 and HBO January 6 documentary “This Place Rules,” is facing multiple sexual misconduct allegations after two women came forward this month accusing the internet comedian of pressuring them to have sex.

The “All Gas No Brakes” YouTube channel comic, known for his deadpan lampooning of society on the margins with man-on-the-street style interviews, from QAnoners to Burners and Flat Earthers, has yet to publicly address the allegations. Caroline Elise, the user @cornbreadcasserole on TikTok, alleged that Callaghan asked to spend the night at her place following a falling out with a fellow crewmember. Despite her rebuffs, he “eventually got my consent because he wore me down.” She added, “I said whatever because I was trying to get the whole thing over with…it doesn’t discount that I told him no. [He] still found a way to coerce me into doing things I didn’t want to do.

On his YouTube channel Channel 5 and in his recent HBO Max documentary This Place Rules, 25-year-old Andrew Callaghan has amassed millions of fans as a goofy, deadpan interlocutor, highlighting the absurdities of modern culture. His straight-faced interviews with fringe members of contemporary society — prepubescent Maga heads, QAnon influencers, Flat Earthers — often went viral, with Callaghan becoming something of a celebrity of the online left.

Yet on TikTok, Callaghan is now going viral for far less innocuous reasons. Two women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, accusing the...

Andrew Callaghan is catching quite a bit of attention after This Place Rules, his documentary about the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, went live on HBO.

Callaghan is from our neck of the woods: He got into content creating in 2019 with the launch of his first YouTube channel, All Gas No Brakes, where he traveled around the U.S. interviewing random people at conventions and music festivals. He and fellow All Gas No Brakes founders Nic Mosher and Evan Gilbert-Katz left the channel in 2021 after contract disputes with the channel’s producer, Doing Things Media.

Shortly after, the trio launched Channel 5, a Patreon-funded project they promised would be a “completely independent, digital journalism experience.” Content for Channel 5 is posted both on Patreon and on its YouTube channel, where it has 2.26 million subscribers.

It was in the process of making content for Channel 5 that Callaghan started acquiring footage for what would become This Place Rules,...

January 6th, 2021, was a bleak day in our country’s history for any number of reasons, but it was not without its obvious, glaring warning signs, or so argues “This Place Rules,” a bracingly funny mix of man-on-the-street gonzo journalism and punk political critique born from the entirely singular brain of “Channel 5“/”All Gas No Brakes” mastermind Andrew Callaghan.

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