Once a tight-trousered self-confessed recovering sex addict, all kohl eyeliner, big hair and skinny jeans, in recent years Russell Brand has completely reinvented himself as a respectable yoga-loving Home Counties married man and father of two.
Now 48 years old, he is 20 years sober and has settled in Marlow, Bucks, which is probably the most respectable, affluent town on the Thames.
One of his new neighbours told me: ‘He’s a lovely guy, really’ – although that was a couple