Russell Brand grew up in Essex. His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 & left school at 16 to study at the Italia Conti stage school. There, he began drinking heavily & taking drugs. He regularly visited prostitutes in Soho, began cutting himself, took drugs on stage during his st&-up shows, & even set himself on fire while on crack cocaine. He has been arrested 11 times & fired from 3 different jobs
- including from XFM & MTV
- & he claims to have slept with over 2, 000 women. In 2003 Russell was told that he would be in prison, in a metal hospital or dead within six months unless he went in to rehab. He has now been clean for three years.

In 2006 his presenting career took off, & he hosted the NME awards as well as his own MTV show, 1 Leicester Square, plus Big Brothers Big Mouth on Channel 4. His UK st&-up tour was sold out & his BBC Radio 6 show became a cult phenomenon, the second most popular podcast of the year after Ricky Gervais. He was awarded Time Outs Stand Up Comedian of the Year & won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards.

In 2007 Russell hosted both the Brit Awards & Comic Relief, & continued to front Big Brothers Big Mouth. His BBC2 radio podcast became the UKs most popular.

Russell writes a weekly football column in the Guardian & is the patron of Focus 12, a charity helping people with alcohol & substance misuse.









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