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2 June 2010 12:06 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Russell Brand in Get Him to the Greek

Photo: Universal Pictures Russell Brand is a wild card. If you've paid any attention to his career or even spend a couple of minutes researching you may find yourself shocked, appalled or rolling on the floor laughing at what he's done for a laugh. Before he came to Seattle for interviews while promoting his upcoming film Get Him to the Greek I started digging into his personal autobiography "My Booky Wook" and listening to and reading previous interviews he'd given. Here was a guy whose entire life was pretty much a part of the public realm, so what was left to ask?

He was bulimic at the age of 14. He's a one-time drug and sex addict. He's been arrested 11 times. He's a vegetarian. He called President George Bush "that retarded cowboy fella" while hosting MTV's Video Music Awards and also insulted Robert Pattinson and the Jonas Brothers, »

- Brad Brevet

15 May 2010 3:17 PM, PDT | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »

Russell Brand (pictured) has described his short-lived British comedy TV show "Re:brand" as a "cry for help" insisting he spent the entire shoot in a drug-addled haze and can't believe he was allowed to continue working.He tells Playboy magazine, "That entire show was probably a cry for help. I was a junkie when that show was on the air. Within two or three months of it ending, I was in rehab. That was the last dice throw of a desperate man. It was less a cry for help than a mental breakdown on film." Brand also revealed he had a team who would handpick him women at the height of his sex addiction.  The comedian said he would tell his assistants what kind of a girl he was after.And they would select one based on his choices - and bring her to him.  Russell, 34, now engaged to singer Katy Perry, »

15 May 2010 10:40 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »

Russell Brand has claimed that he suffered a "mental breakdown" on his short-lived TV series Re:Brand. The comic, who began his career as a video-jockey on MTV, admitted that his 'obscene' Channel 4 prank show was a "cry for help". He told Playboy magazine: "That entire show was probably a cry for help. I was a junkie when that show was on the air. Within two or three months of it ending, I was in rehab. That was the last dice throw of a desperate man. It was less a cry for (more) »

- By Paul Millar

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