Russell Brand
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 7:47 pm
Does anyone understand the enigma that is Russell Brand? The Yanks hate him and he doesn't seem that popular over here, yet he seems to get endless film roles. If you read his Wiki entry (I believe you can write these yourself) he seems to have had an early life of tragedy, drug and sexual abuse, yet still manages to get into the Italia Conti Stage School for 3 years having "left home at 16".
Essex council funded the whole thing, really? Tuition?, food? accommodation?, money for hard drugs? and then manages to get into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, presumably still being funded by some invisible benefactor. Of course, his bio has him always being, "Expelled" from these establishments, but it never mentions how he managed to maintain his expensive lifestyle. After all, living under a cloud of amphetamines, cannabis, LSD, cocaine and heroin costs big money.
Is it just me that smells the stench of a publicist's fanciful creation behind this life story and in fact his whole background was in reality, comfortably middle class? Of course he would have got nowhere without a valiant story of rising from the ghetto against all odds.
Look at poor old James Blunt. The poor fool actually admitted that not only was he a "toff" but also an army officer. He may as well have announced, that he was a paid up Nazi, as, from then on was hated and mocked by the media.
Could this have been the fate of Russell Brand if he'd admitted the truth?
Essex council funded the whole thing, really? Tuition?, food? accommodation?, money for hard drugs? and then manages to get into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, presumably still being funded by some invisible benefactor. Of course, his bio has him always being, "Expelled" from these establishments, but it never mentions how he managed to maintain his expensive lifestyle. After all, living under a cloud of amphetamines, cannabis, LSD, cocaine and heroin costs big money.
Is it just me that smells the stench of a publicist's fanciful creation behind this life story and in fact his whole background was in reality, comfortably middle class? Of course he would have got nowhere without a valiant story of rising from the ghetto against all odds.
Look at poor old James Blunt. The poor fool actually admitted that not only was he a "toff" but also an army officer. He may as well have announced, that he was a paid up Nazi, as, from then on was hated and mocked by the media.
Could this have been the fate of Russell Brand if he'd admitted the truth?