Nobody cares about Russell Brand

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Yes, he has long been the 'loveable rogue' here in the UK.

I have always found him to be a very unfunny, annoyingly arrogant, creep.
He's always kinda struck me as 'too clever for his own good', profoundly damaged, and so energetic/chaotic that he's likely in the center of a storm of collateral damage far too often. I imagine it takes a great deal of effort for him to dial himself down to a level that appears 'normal'.
 

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I remember him from like 10-15 years ago and thought he looked dirty, as in unwashed and never thought about him again
 

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I'm not sure why I know of the dude. I looked him up on IMDb just now and spotted just two things that I'd 'seen' him in; both films were voice work (Despicable Me & Despicable Me 2).

Bah, I say that above, but I know why I first heard of him. He was in the reboot Arthur film from 2011. Didn't see the film, not even sure if I've seen a clip from it, but I'd seen at least movie posters for it and found the guy to be rather creepy looking. Why'd a film I didn't see bring someone to my attention? Because I'd seen the Oscar winning film of the same name from 1981 that had starred Dudley Moore.
 

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I'm afraid I had never heard of him before this scandal broke.
 
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This, I think, is an example of how we all live in our separate, though intersecting, media worlds. I'd not really thought about Russell Brand since he was dropped by British TV and radio after his on-air trolling of Andrew Sachs and Georgina Baillie, but he's apparently since then re-invented himself as a YouTube and Rumble influencer with 6.6 million subscribers on YouTube, making (until YouTube demonetised him) £1,000,000 a year by mixing Wellness woo with conspiracy theories, and organising well-attended (and expensive) Wellness Festivals.

He is, that is, a household name in a particular sort of household, of which there seem to be considerably more than many of us think. A bit like David Icke, maybe. I'd never heard of Andrew Tate until he was arrested in Romania, either.

ETA Andrew Tate is maybe a good comparison in more ways than one -- he was once, briefly, a contestant in Big Brother, and most people forgot all about him after he was removed. He went on to create a large and lucrative social media business appealing to teenage boys and older incels, completely under most people's radar. I've just read Naomi Klein's Doppelganger, which has some very interesting things to say about the "mirror world" inhabited by QAnon, Steve Bannon, and "the other Naomi" (Woolf). Tate and Brand both thrive in that world.
 
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Posting this here because Andrew Tate doesn't deserve his own thread.

I can't tell any of these pathetic losers apart from each other anyway. They're all dog vomit.
 
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Sadly, some never seem to drop off the trending list.

Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault by London’s Metropolitan Police, with the comedian and TV host saying he is “incredibly grateful” to be able to defend the charges in court.

The police said this afternoon that Brand has been charged with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault after detectives started investigating 18 months back.
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Predictable
 

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From The Guardian
Brand has previously denied allegations of rape, assault and emotional abuse that have been made against him. And in a video posted on Instagram released later on Friday, he said that he had “never engaged in non-consensual activity” and was “grateful” for the chance to defend himself in court.
I bet he is.
 
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