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[–] keys42 1 points 37 minutes ago
[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I bet he's pissed, the crime he got arrested for the U.S. President had to just pay a fine.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

No one shoukd be surprised.

He was blackballed by Film and TV companies for being a creep, and had to jump on the Right Wing grifter circuit to make real money, and feed his narcissism.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Russell Brand? More.like rapist.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

This asswipe always shows up in my search results when I try and search up "The Trews". I want to listen to the Canadian band, not his shitty little "news" show.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

THANK YOU. I know I can scroll through it, but I get tired of waiting.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm always yearning for better search results.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can't stop laughing, it's like every inhibition has died.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Sounds like you might be a bit of a paranoid freak. Do you need someone to hold you in their arms?

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

I can only hope, meet me at the corner of hollis and morris.

edit: seriously, from someone from a border town, we stand on guard for thee.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

This.. is sadly not a surprise. That dude has given me the creeps for a long time.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

His YouTube thumbnails pretty much tells you he's looks like an insane homeless person

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 points 17 minutes ago

I mean, last insane homeless person I ran into threw his arm around me like we were lifelong buddies and told me all the things he'd seen that day that he found cool/interesting, not tried to assault me.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 50 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Looks like they changed the headline on you, there is no claim he has been arrested, just charged.

Please fix the headline or we'll have to remove it.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Detained is often used interchangeably with arrested, as annoying as it is. And he would have been, if he was charged.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

He wasn't detained either. He was charged by mail with a summons(postal requisition) and told to show up for his court date in May. In the US an investigative detention means stopping you in one place while in the UK detention generally only means bringing you to the police station and holding you for a charge. In the UK they call the former a stop. You'd have to necessarily be arrested for the later. He didn't have either happen. I don't even think he's in the UK right now(which is likely why they did a postal requisition for a crime as serious as rape without issuing an arrest warrant and starting the extradition process). They want him to come in on his own.

Supposedly they did interview him at one point but that's about it.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

That's true, but the headline doesn't say arrested.

[–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 66 points 23 hours ago

"I've never engaged in nonconsensual activity, I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes," the actor continued…

Nice little touch there by the journalist.

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 45 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He actually does look like a cleaned up version of Charlie Manson in the photo.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Flemmy@lemm.ee 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Isn't he tattood with Buddha's and Hindu symbols? Like a gropey yoga class teacher.

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Given his deep interest in sparking a race war and his prolific lying/endless nonsense jabbering, I'm gonna guess that's something he has said, but that wouldn't necessarily make it true. He has said a lot of things, many of which are just as garbage as everything else we know to be in his heart.

Buy, hey! Every cloud has its silver lining! He might be a racist, cult leading, serial killer by proxy, but did you know that he was also almost a Beach Boy? They even recorded some of his songs and I am100% not joking. Rely meks u thenk 🤔

Edit: it only occurred to me you may have been talking about Brand after commenting. And I-oops!

[–] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Hopefully that means he won't be on the big fat quiz anymore. Always hated him but seemed to be a fan favorite

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I thought he wasn't even in the UK to be arrested. Did he go back?

Edit:

Brand has not been placed under arrest, the Met tells NPR. The agency says he was interviewed and then charged via "postal requisition" — a court summons informing him of the charges.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58260/russell-brand-rape-assault

I guess the OP thinks he got arrested by mail since that's not even the article title.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 24 points 23 hours ago

So many scum bags in the world.

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Just being on brand

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

An innate proclivity for raping women.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

That'd be easy, wouldn't it? That we could just find all the people with bad thoughts and stick them somewhere they can't hurt anyone. Sadly the real world doesn't work that way, were we can divide everything into "good people" and "bad people".

Sometimes it's as much, or more, about nurture as it is nature.