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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

BrandRossGate

October 29, 2008 24:00
1 min read

Piers Morgan seems to me to be spot on in his judgement:
Russell Brand...is almost an irrelevance in this.

He's just a sex-obsessed ex-junkie, a pre-Raphaelite version of Bernard Manning who will say literally anything to make a cheap tabloid headline, however lewd, crude or downright disgusting. I wouldn't expect anything else from him.

But Jonathan Ross is different. He is the highest-paid star in BBC history, their flagship hero, a man given