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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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Banoffeepie29 · 08/11/2026 20:16

He's about 15 years older than me. I couldn't stand him when I was a teenager in his heyday. Always thought he was a creep and didn't find him funny at all. Always looked unwashed as well. As for his eyes, maybe it's the cocaine or heroin, but i don't think people can judge a person's character too much from their physical features.

MabelAnderson · 08/11/2026 20:18

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

Yes he does have an air of Charles Manson. I wonder if he is very persuasive in real life, as in Sunday Service he just seemed like a bully.

screamtoabloodysigh · 08/11/2026 20:21

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.

Me too. He reminded me of that weird kid who uses big words and everyone thinks is a bit pretentious.... but then gets to 6th form and becomes cool.

I've been trying to remember what I actually thought 20odd years ago, but genuinely can't. More recently, yes, nutjob, but back then? Just another comedian.

Freud2 · 08/11/2026 20:24

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 18:18

Exactly, there's either just nothingness or I see a strange glint, hard to explain-just a craziness

He always looks to me like he needs a good wash - one girl said he was smelly. I wouldn't touch him with a barge pole!

BigSuse · 08/11/2026 20:24

No, never fancied him, he looks like he’d smell of incense sticks and washing that hasn’t dried properly. I did used to watch his comedy, I like that kind of edgy, Jimmy Carr type of comedy, but only when it’s implicit that that the comedian is exaggerating or making it up completely, now we know it was true it’s not funny.

NovaF · 08/11/2026 20:24

https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/russell-brand-cowering-fear-hmp-wandsworth-inmates GB News, I know

"Brand's celebrity lifestyle has been firmly left outside the prison gates, with the actor now forced to wash his clothes in a small sink and dry them on a small heated pipe running through his cell."

First time he has probably ever washed his clothes, judging by the state of him.

Russell Brand left 'cowering in fear' in London's HMP Wandsworth as inmates threaten him

The convicted rapist's fellow prisoners are said to have been chanting 'there's a Brand new n***e on the wing' at him

https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/russell-brand-cowering-fear-hmp-wandsworth-inmates

RogueFemale · 08/11/2026 20:25

NovaF · 08/11/2026 20:16

I was one of the people that posted about the dog. That poor animal. He wrote in one of his memoirs " If this is what I'm telling you, can you imagine what has been left out". I genuinely hope there are some animal lovers in prison that coax him to the top of the stairs and kick him down them, repeatedly.

Let's hope so. Cruelty to animals is what young psychopaths do, how they practice cruelty before moving on to humans.

YankSplaining · 08/11/2026 20:35

A person with bipolar disorder having manic eyes makes sense.

DressOrSkirt · 08/11/2026 20:40

I couldn't stand him. I only knew him from the back-combed hair days (when I was a teen) onwards and all my friends fancied him. I like alternative guys but always thought he was a "poser". I also found his voice very annoying, never mind what he said with it. I didn't watch very much of him but from what I did never found him offensive just unfunny, then the faux intellectualism started. He was using so many words incorrectly, and telling people not to vote! I thought he was such an idiot. Definitely sleazy vibes too. I didn't guess he was a rapist but I'm not surprised either.

DanaScullysLegoHair · 08/11/2026 20:40

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

I've just read this and it has really upset me too. And the fact he told others he did this? It's sickening.

smooththecat · 08/11/2026 20:41

I never liked him. The Frank Spencer voice, which I think was affected; the lack of self-reflection or self-awareness, the lack of insight, the self-aggrandisement, the word salad, the later far right weirdness. I get/got that he was sort of exciting and dangerous, I remember watching him on the BB spin off but he was never funny to me, and never clever. Even back then he was clearly a bully and didn’t hide it. I was really confused by his marriage to Katy Perry. Same way I couldn’t understand how another supposedly funny man married a super hot model. I was like, why? What are they seeing that I’m not seeing?

ScrimMN · 08/11/2026 20:41

he has Ted Bundy vibes to me,

shark- like eyes, has a way of luring women in, and always able to sound way more intelligent than he actually is

Firefly1987 · 08/11/2026 20:45

Yes i think he looks like a psychopath. I also think Ted Bundy looked like a psychopath but people say no one could see it at the time..and Jeremy Bamber, it's the same intense look.

I thought RB was attractive for about 5 mins when I was in my late teens. Don't know where my mind was tbh.

safetyfreak · 08/11/2026 20:46

I never liked him; I always found him strange and creepy.

But, he was everywhere back in the day. The stupid lad culture.

fivepastmidnight · 08/11/2026 20:51

He has been convicted in court based on evidence. Anything about his eyes being relevant is ridiculous. Judging people by their appearance is as dangerous as judging victims by what they were wearing.

SP2024 · 08/11/2026 20:51

Nope. Never fancied him or any of that type. They all look like they need a good wash and a haircut. I prefer men who are smarter, less skinny and don’t feel the need to take drugs.

DierdreDaphne · 08/11/2026 20:52

EarthSight · 08/11/2026 19:37

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.

Ooh I just looked at that. So unnerving.

BadBadCat · 08/11/2026 20:55

I've never fancied Russel Brand. Back in the day when he was regularly on TV I found him fascinating and repulsive in equal measure.

Hard to explain why, but it's not at all surprising that he's a rapist.

Ponoka7 · 08/11/2026 21:08

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:25

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

As someone who worked in children services, that's a child who needs intervention. His Mother had been getting treatment for cancer for, two types of cancer, for three years. After a difficult start, he's hinted at other childhood trauma, Brand then went from relative to relative. The help wouldn't have been there, so I'm not condemning his family. But you are looking at a very damaged child, which no doubt influenced his addiction.

I'm hoping that Hop isn't removed from platforms.

OchreReader · 08/11/2026 21:09

I’ve never fancied him, or thought he was in any way handsome. I couldn’t stand his voice and I would imagine I could smell him through my tv 🤢 The eyes…

I was a very young student nurse when I had a frightening experience in the nurse’s residence. It was back when old psychiatric hospitals/institutions were just on the point of being closed in favour of community care, but this one was still going strong.

Unlike the general hospitals nurse accommodation, security was non existent, and people could come and go at any time. There was also a mix of male and female students. I was in my room one evening when someone knocked on my door. It was a bloke in his mid 20’s asking if I had any change for the pay phone (before mobiles unfortunately). I turned to check my purse and he followed me in my room. That pricked my senses, and I turned to tell him I didn’t have change. He was looking at me intently, and the minute I looked at his eyes I thought ‘Shit! You’re not a new student, you’re a bloody resident’. He was staring and smiling at me and then said he’d be back with his camera because he wanted photos of me. I looked out my room window to see if he had gone, and he was staring up at my window and waved.

Thankfully the male nursing officer took me seriously, and whatever he did I was never bothered again, but he told me it was one of the men from the ‘rehab’ wards for sex offenders.

Anyway, after all that my point is that it was his eyes that let me know his intentions were not good, even though he was friendly and smiling. Looking at certain pictures of RB, it takes me right back to that night. At times they really are the window to the soul 😳

Thewonderfuldollypartonsbra · 08/11/2026 21:12

Eyes are the window to the soul

He has no soul-David Walliams has the same type of eyes

Both men make me feel sick-its their 'something I can't put my finger on but they are not normal human beings'

Russel Brand looks like the type of bloke that needs to go for a long swim in a sheep dip

Hes revolting

Ohnobackagain · 08/11/2026 21:13

Lots of people I know thought he was hilarious. I always thought he was a creepy, boss-eyed twat @Getsomemeatonyerbones 🤷🏻‍♀️

Northernlights19 · 08/11/2026 21:15

I think in all "celebrity" cases everyone is so quick to say "I always knew...." or "I always thought". Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. I don't think you can just tell someone is evil from the way they look.

OpheliaHamlet · 08/11/2026 21:15

Getsomemeatonyerbones · 08/11/2026 19:05

Yep, really worrying, especially for a child. As awful as it would be, it wouldn't be as chilling if he'd say kicked the dog when he was angry (obviously still utterly awful) but this took planning and an evil thought process that the average person just wouldn't have, chilling

The allegations in 2023 all sounded completely plausible to me. I wasn't surprised, either, as I always thought something about him was off (but tbh, I have yet to be surprised by any of these 'celebrities' who have been called out for their horrific actions...).

However, that one short paragraph you wrote about the dog - that tells me everything I need to know. I absolutely 110% believe the victims at his trial, and all the ones who will come forward in the future (and there will be many).

Hurting animals as a child is a well known sign of buddingl psychopathic tendencies. So there's that, but it's clear he is intelligent - even as a child, he was perceptive enough to know he needed to conceal his true self. However, what is most chilling, is that he was scheming and learning to manipulate by perfecting his ability to mimic real emotion.

On track to be a career psychopath.

Throwawayname26 · 08/11/2026 21:15

N/c for this.

My ex was violent. He could be the loveliest bloke on earth, then he would switch and it was as though a light went out behind his eyes. I see the same thing in some photos of Brand. It is chilling.