An inveterate show-off who both friends and enemies conceded was ‘self-obsessed’, Russell Brand built his career on telling and re-telling stories of his sexual exploits.
An only child from Gray, Essex, he became famous thanks to his one-man stand-up shows. For a brief time, he was the toast of London, sleeping first with supermodel Kate Moss (who regretted her choice) and then allegedly with her friend Sadie Frost.
His fame was cemented by his tome, My Booky Wook, published in