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The downfall of Russell Brand: from Big Brother and Hollywood to convicted rapist

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Former comedian long traded on his extreme persona, yet many will wonder how he was allowed to act in plain sight for so long In the early 1990s, when he was a student at the Italia Conti theatre school, a teenage Russell Brand became so fixated on a…

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