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Russel Brands eyes

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Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 18:16

They are very strange arent they?
I have always thought this.
He either looks manic and crazy or they're like black holes, just dead, wonder if that's telling?

Also, did you ever fancy him? I had a friend who thought he was gorgeous. I never ever did and he couldn't have been further from my type

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Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:25

Missohnoyoubetterdont · 08/11/2026 19:14

Where did this information come from? I mean I strongly dislike the man but know from watching his awful podcasts that he has had two dogs (one sadly dead now) that he absolutely raves about. I mean I wouldn’t put it past him, just wondering where the link is?

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Here 😔 also saying how it was a nervous dog, just sick

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CosyDenimShark · 08/11/2026 19:27

His eyes are evil.

He is about as far from my type as it's possible to be. I wouldn't have touched him with a barge pole. Looks like he needs a damn good wash! Eurgh!

GiveMeOodlesofPoodles · 08/11/2026 19:27

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:25

Here 😔 also saying how it was a nervous dog, just sick

HOW can anyone have read that book, closed it and gone

"yeah, nice bloke. Anyway - Pub?"

fantom · 08/11/2026 19:28

5128gap · 08/11/2026 18:33

I must be one of the tiny minority of people who never looked at Brand and thought him anything other than a decent looking if you like that sort of thing, funny at times bloke, with perfectly ordinary eyes. I never got 'a vibe', a foreshadowing of evil, my flesh didn't crawl and I categorically did not know all along he was a wrong un.

Same. I thought he was funny AND I fancied him!

MabelAnderson · 08/11/2026 19:29

turniplegs · 08/11/2026 19:15

I do think he's good looking - though you have to imagine him without the shaggy, unclean-looking hair and the general 'unwashed' vibe to see it.

He's a mess of a human though. I found him funny in my twenties - I liked his verbosity and loquaciousness - but then went to one of his shows (from the Booky Wook tour) and was put off by a lot of what he said. He said to one woman in the audience, 'yes, I'll give you an autograph, come to my hotel and I'll splatter it in semen all over your womb'. Put me off completely.

I see him as someone super-intelligent in a very superficial way, and that his intelligence is used to serve all his worst impulses. Bit demonic, to be honest.

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Agree with most of this. He wasn’t my type, (those hideous trousers..the backcombed hair) but I thought he had a handsome face, and seemed interesting. Then the Sachs thing was so unkind, I thought of him differently after that.
I hadn’t seen him in anything apart from the odd bit of tv years ago, until I watched his Sunday Service out of curiosity a few days ago. His wolfish grin is even more unnerving, it doesn’t reach his eyes at all. He comes across as incredibly aggressive, someone who would completely flip. He had always seemed erratic, looking back, but he really seems so unpleasant in the podcast. It’s very peculiar, this combination of spiteful aggression while praying.

Elbone · 08/11/2026 19:30

I thought he was really funny. Especially Ponderland and a couple of his stand up shows.

I never found him attractive though. Too many accoutrements

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:30

GiveMeOodlesofPoodles · 08/11/2026 19:27

HOW can anyone have read that book, closed it and gone

"yeah, nice bloke. Anyway - Pub?"

Exactly, I never knew any of this, weren't there massive question marks over him after this admission..!

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floopyboop · 08/11/2026 19:30

Abhannmor · 08/11/2026 19:24

I think he uses this fixed stare deliberately. Particularly when someone challenges him. He opens his eyes wide and just bores into people, unblinking. Perhaps he imagines himself some kind of mage , a Rasputin figure who can get his way by sheer will power? It must have worked as a tactic on some people for him to have persisted with it all these years.

Oh my God, THAT'S who he reminds me of. Rasputin. He's a hipster Rasputin.

IsItTheBlackOneOrTheRedOne · 08/11/2026 19:30

blackheartsgirl · 08/11/2026 19:11

Yes this

i I have very dark brown eyes, you can barely see my pupils unless your’re up close. Inherited from my Nan,

I am neither a coke head nor evil, animal abuser or sexual deviant!

Russell Brand is just a terrible person, nothing to do with his eye colour

It’s not that they are a dark colour at all (most of the world!). I know what the OP is saying and it’s hard to describe. A dull, empty black. Like there isn’t even a person behind them. Yes, I know how mad that sounds x

GiveMeOodlesofPoodles · 08/11/2026 19:31

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:30

Exactly, I never knew any of this, weren't there massive question marks over him after this admission..!

And that is what he thought was ok to publish.

What else went on that he didnt want to put in thr book.

Fucking sick

Shufflebumnessie · 08/11/2026 19:32

BillieWiper · 08/11/2026 19:14

He's in the despicable me films too. I'm not going to let him spoil my minions!
Despicable him is about fucking right though.

I actually hope all of them sue him to the absolute hilt. He wouldn't have got that job or any of his film work if his crimes had been exposed.

So his earnings are essentially the proceeds of crime. Quite literally in terms of him getting paid to do stand up and radio shows about raping people and mistreating women. He should have to hand over every penny to rape charities and his victims!

I'd forgotten he was in the Minion movies, but at least with those I can pretend it's not him as it doesn't look/sound like him.
I watched Bedtime Stories not realising he was in it and it's a great film, so I just have to overlook the irritation I feel by his presence on my screen and seeing his ugly mug!

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:32

IsItTheBlackOneOrTheRedOne · 08/11/2026 19:30

It’s not that they are a dark colour at all (most of the world!). I know what the OP is saying and it’s hard to describe. A dull, empty black. Like there isn’t even a person behind them. Yes, I know how mad that sounds x

This!

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Undahpressurah · 08/11/2026 19:35

GobbolinoAndSootica · 08/11/2026 19:02

No never - i think people used to think he was attractive and exciting in the way where they thought he was a bad boy they could tame. It was never an attraction i understand- especially Brand being a bit grubby looking.

Also, I recall lots of peeiple thought he was really intelligent because he sounded like he was spewing up a thesaurus and used ten words when one would do. As in, instead of saying just that he'd say

"Furthermore, there appeared to be a widespread misconception that he was intellectually formidable, when in reality he simply had an inexplicable proclivity for regurgitating the entire contents of a thesaurus whenever a perfectly serviceable, monosyllabic alternative was readily available. His apparent erudition was, I suspect, largely an elaborate exercise in linguistic obfuscation, whereby the deployment of an unnecessarily extravagant vocabulary was mistaken for evidence of actual intellectual substance."

(All said with staring gaze and a head tilt!)

I am NOT denying that he talks utter word salad but I don’t think that’s the only reason people in the mid 2000s thought he was intelligent. He actually DID have a lot to say about some quite important causes, like addiction and social housing. The culture back then WAS highly misogynistic and terrible and he was 100% part of that (and that is what encouraged and emboldened him) but that wasn’t all he was doing. I think it’s too easy to write it off as everyone always knew he was a ‘wrong un’ because he was an out of control monster going around raping everyone he came across. He was far more insidious - and evil - than that.

it’s weird. He reminds me of a jimmy saville in skinny jeans type figure. The ‘in plain sight’ thing is 100% correct. I think reducing it to ‘he’s got evil eyes and talks bollocks how did anyone fall for it’ doesn’t go deep enough to explore what he actually did - and what he was enabled to do by the culture back then.

(he’s definitely gotten worse with the word salad over the years though, I’ll give you that!)

ThesophisticatedJY · 08/11/2026 19:36

I met him in my former job as cabin crew . He boarded the aircraft , I found him magnetic . Very good looking , he spent his time in first class meditating . He was very friendly and funny too .

EarthSight · 08/11/2026 19:37

Apotofrealcoffee · 08/11/2026 18:17

I agree, if you look into his eyes there’s so much rage. Or nothingness.

That's what I thought years ago, when I first saw that awkward interview on Graham Norton with him and Emily Blunt. Eyes full of rage.

FoxxyP · 08/11/2026 19:38

I never gave him a second thought, he was just a weird nonentity of no interest.

Aniceempirebiscuitandacupoftea · 08/11/2026 19:39

giddyboo · 08/11/2026 19:00

Your nans funny 😁

Yes she came out with some crackers. She was long gone before RB came on the scene but I can just imagine what she’d have thought of him.

ThisAutumnTown · 08/11/2026 19:39

I clicked ‘You are being unreasonable’ by accident 🤦‍♀️ I meant to click that you are not unreasonable.
I’ve always despised russel brand and his stupid fucking hair. Horrible horrible person with crazy eyes

Lifeomars · 08/11/2026 19:40

I used to find him entertaining and funny, never watched Big Brother as i am not into reality tv but i aused to watch him when he did the Ponderland programmes and yes, I laughed. Read his first book and laughed a bit then started his second one and only got through a few pages where he detailed his one night stand with Kate Moss and found it grim, Saw him on TV with Lorraine Kelly and he was all ego and quite repulsive and i went off him. Agree about his eyes, that was something i noticed in the man who sexually assualted me, he had those dead, empty eyes. Five years in jail, hoping Brand gets 10 for the rape and another 5 for the assaults. After murder, sexual violence is one of the worst crimes.

localnotail · 08/11/2026 19:43

I never thought he was "evil" however I always thought he was grubby and looked unwashed. I always imagined he smelled. He also has a weirdly shaped body, strangely wide around waist/ hips compared to the rest of him, which always grossed me out, and he is completely hairless which is also, to me, weird and un-sexy.

I actually never took him seriously and thought he was a bit of a clown, and thought all his "sexual prowess" is just a joke. He is hardly a sexy alfa male he tried to pretend he is!

His eyes are just empty because he is quite thick and lacks personality. Simples.

seahorsessky · 08/11/2026 19:43

Yes, but I'd be wary of judging character from eyes. I'm being serious-a lot of people have judged character based on appearance, and it's often ableist/racist. Not in his case, obviously. And I never found him attractive, though his thin/messy hair thing was popular with many people.

Starburst360 · 08/11/2026 19:44

Robogob · 08/11/2026 18:23

I know most people will say I’m imagining it or being hysterical, but I think his eyes are evil. Proper malevolent evil.

I really agree with you and was saying the same work earlier!

YourZingyJadeTraybake · 08/11/2026 19:44

He seems like the sort of person who could be a cult leader or claim to be a Messiah and convince loads of people to end themselves or something else very creepy. Maybe he will start a cult in prison

WearyAuldWumman · 08/11/2026 19:44

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 18:23

Since reading yesterday about what he used to do to his dog, I can't stop thinking about it, poor poor dog. I think it's such a strange way to act, especially as a child, it's almost evil

Animal abuse in childhood is supposed to be indicative of psychopathy, I believe?

Blackcat2026 · 08/11/2026 19:46

GobbolinoAndSootica · 08/11/2026 19:02

No never - i think people used to think he was attractive and exciting in the way where they thought he was a bad boy they could tame. It was never an attraction i understand- especially Brand being a bit grubby looking.

Also, I recall lots of peeiple thought he was really intelligent because he sounded like he was spewing up a thesaurus and used ten words when one would do. As in, instead of saying just that he'd say

"Furthermore, there appeared to be a widespread misconception that he was intellectually formidable, when in reality he simply had an inexplicable proclivity for regurgitating the entire contents of a thesaurus whenever a perfectly serviceable, monosyllabic alternative was readily available. His apparent erudition was, I suspect, largely an elaborate exercise in linguistic obfuscation, whereby the deployment of an unnecessarily extravagant vocabulary was mistaken for evidence of actual intellectual substance."

(All said with staring gaze and a head tilt!)

All part of his superiority complex.

Absolute wanker.

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