Russell Brand started his career as an edgy Brit radio host. He got kicked off that gig by telling listeners that he'd fucked the granddaughter of Andrew Sachs, among thousands of others. Andrew Sachs is the guy who played Manuel on Fawlty Towers, and his grand daughter is some kind of notable London psychic. Andy got mad and made a public stink that got Brand the boot.Upshot is that Brand is famous for sex, scandal, and for claiming to have bagged more ass than Wilt the Stilt! When he married recovering Christian power pop singer Katy Perry people figured that it wasn't the only show biz relationship based on irreconcilable differences. People also asked how long it could go on. Since the couple were married in a lavish ceremony, back in 2010, skeptics wouldn't have long to wait. Only about 14 months. That's how long it took for the papers to get officially filed.

Now there had been rumblings for some time. Ellen DeGeneres made some remarks about it when Russ made an appearance a few months back. EdG asked if it were true that Katy had filed for divorce and Russ jokingly responded "She should have told me." Way to use humor as a deflection! Even though Russ was maintaining that there was zero fire under the smoke the alarm buzzer went off earlier today when it was reveled that Russ himself had filed against his wife. Russ claims that he took the initiative of divorcing he wife because her family are church happy and couldn't take it if she'd filed. So basically he's divorcing his wife to be a gentleman - not sure if that's more deflective humor!
Brand sites "irreconcilable differences" in his divorce papers. Now before you go jumping to the obvious conclusions about Brand screwing up his marriage by getting drunk and sleeping around - bewared. That boozed out horn hound routine was just hype. The real reason, and Brand is not too gentlemanly to admit it, or have others drop hints about it on his behalf, is that Katy was an immature, shallow, and selfish person. Now that's not what Brand's people are saying. They have a kinder gentler spin. The official story says that Russ was ready to settle down, and Katy didn't want kids. Her career is too hot now and a pack of rug rats would only have slowed her down. Hope her Christian kin ain't reading those comments or it would defeat the whole purpose of Russ filing first!
Some other little comments are getting dropped too. Stuff like perhaps Katy didn't realize what kind of a commitment marriage was. It's not all harsh criticism though. Brand does say that he knows he will always remain best friends with his soon to be ex mate. That could prove challenging since when the couple married back in October 2010 - in a ceremony featuring the pair riding elephants, they are believed to have hooked up with out a pre nup. So Russ could be due of half of what the missus made since Oct 2010 - and it's been a lucrative 14 months for Perry! Her "Kissed a Girl" single made about a cool 50 mill, and her California Dreamin' world tour is already at he 20 mill mark in earnings. So who thinks that Russ is gonna be just as gentlemanly about letting his wife keep her caash as he was about sparing her Christian family's feeling?








