"housing hypocrite?"

[DrLeftover]

Russell Brand, who was helping deliver a petition on affordable housing to 10 Downing Street on Monday, accused the Channel 4 News journalist of being a ‘snide’.

Asked the value of the house he lived in, he replied that his home is rented but refused to give any indication of what he pays.

Brand, who is estimated to be worth £9million thanks to his comedy shows, films and books, is understood to live in a chic fourth-storey flat in a converted warehouse in East London, paying around £5,000 a month in rent.

The three-bedroom property with roof terrace, in the heart of trendy Shoreditch, is worth about £2million and is owned by a property firm based in the British Virgin Islands.

With the national average wage only around £2,000 a month before tax, renting it would be well beyond the reach of most people.

But Brand, whose current best-selling book Revolution is an anti-capitalist diatribe, became aggressively defensive when O’Brien questioned him.

Asked about the value of his home, the 39-year-old angrily replied: ‘I’m not interested in talking to you about my rent, mate. I’m here to support a very important campaign.’

Accused of being ‘part of the problem’ of rocketing housing prices, Brand, 39, said: ‘I am part of the solution.’

With Video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857221/Millionaire-comic-Russell-Brand-loses-temper-march-Downing-Street-asked-London-home-worth.html

 

[DrLeftover]

3 December

The comic actor and campaigner Russell Brand has won the Plain English Campaign Foot in Mouth award, for the most baffling quotes by a public figure.

Awarded for his public speaking and writing, the judges said Brand was almost in a field of his own, and described his message as "entertainingly garbled".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30305940


Plain English Campaign
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

 

[Webster]

Russell Brand is but one part of the age-old selective Leftist hypocrisy that could be described as "I can do whatever the hell I want, but don't any of you peons question me on it....", which is also the same philosophy that uber-rich types like Russell Simmons exhibited back during the early days of Occupy Wall Street.

Besides....does anyone even pay that overwinded gas-bag Brand any attention outside of Hollywood?

 

[DrLeftover]

You mean like somebody that would take a charter jet to Stockholm to pick up their Nobel Prize for a movie about Global Warming?

 

[Webster]

You mean like somebody that would take a charter jet to Stockholm to pick up their Nobel Prize for a movie about Global Warming?

Yeah, there's a good example right there, Doc....

 

[DrLeftover]

I looked him up.

Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, in Grays, Essex, England, the son of Barbara Elizabeth (Nichols) and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. An only child, his parents divorced when he was only six months old, and he was subsequently raised by his mother. Enduring a difficult childhood that saw him living with relatives while his mother was ... See full bio »
Born:
Russell Edward Brand
June 4, 1975 in Grays, Essex, England, UK

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1258970/


I've NEVER seen anything he was ever in. Period.

 

[Webster]

I looked him up.

Russell Brand was born on June 4, 1975, in Grays, Essex, England, the son of Barbara Elizabeth (Nichols) and Ronald Henry Brand, a photographer. An only child, his parents divorced when he was only six months old, and he was subsequently raised by his mother. Enduring a difficult childhood that saw him living with relatives while his mother was ... See full bio »
Born:
Russell Edward Brand
June 4, 1975 in Grays, Essex, England, UK

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1258970/


I've NEVER seen anything he was ever in. Period.

You ain't missing nothing, Doc...