Comic Russell Brand disses his 'vapid, vacuous' life with Katy Perry
Seeing starving kids in Nairobi made comedian Russell Brand rethink his life as a privileged A-Lister.
Whenever a celebrity publicly disses the obnoxious and pampered lives fellow Chosen Ones live, an angel gets its wings.
That's what TempTatt would like to believe, anyway, especially when we learned of an upcoming documentary about our new favorite bold-namer, Brit bad boy Russell Brand.
Brand, you may recall, is the ex-hubster of hit-making machine Katy Perry. And while the public may think the existence the couple led was a dream, it turns out it to have been more of a nightmare for Brand. The comedian's new documentary, "BRAND: A Second Coming," chronicles his transition from stand-up comedian to social activist. In it, as shared by the Huffington Post, he describes their life as a twosome thusly:
"Oh my f--king God. I'm living like this life . . . the very thing I detest: vapid, vacuous celebrity," Brand says in a voiceover as footage showing him and Perry besieged by the paparazzi unspools. "Fame, power and money [are] bulls--t."
Apparently, Brand's outlook on life 180'd after he visited Nairobi, where he saw kids dumpster-diving for food. He was a changed man when he returned to a celeb world where the free swag bags given to the rich-and-famous at various events contain items whose aggregate value is many times what the average Kenyan might make in a year.
Nonetheless, Brand, whose marriage ended in 2011 after a whopping 14 months, has previously said on the record that he "really enjoyed" his marital time with Perry.
Rerun season for ex-kid star
It's deja vu all over again for '70s child star Kim Richards, who, according to TMZ.com, has cut a deal after her August arrest for shoplifting more than $600 worth of stuff at a Target outlet in Van Nuys, Calif.
A Los Angeles judge sentenced Richards, 51, to 300 hours of community service, three years' probation and a year of weekly AA meetings. Per TMZ, it's the exact same sentence she received for a "drunken rampage" at the Beverly Hills Hotel last April. But she won't have to double up on the community service and AA meetings. She's also been ordered to stay clear of the store.
Richards was a TV and movie staple in the early 1970s, starring as Juliet Mills' young charge on the ABC-TV sitcom, "Nanny and the Professor." She was also a Disney regular, toplining such flicks as "Escape to Witch Mountain," "No Deposit, No Return" and "Return from Witch Mountain."
Tattle bonus: She's Paris Hilton's aunt!
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"Game of Thrones" devotees may want to skip this spoiler: Man-bunned Jon Snow is coming back. The character, played by Kit Harrington, was ostensibly stabbed to death last season, but various gossip sites are reporting he's been spotted - manbun intact - on the set.
* There's going to be a "Star Wars" museum, but it won't be in a galaxy far, far away. Instead, per the Chicago Tribune, George Lucas' proposed, 300,000-square-foot repository on a parcel of land fronting Lake Michigan has been approved by that toddlin' town's City Council.
* Speaking of a bricks-and-mortar shrine to a pop-culture icon, the London apartment where 1960s guitar god Jimi Hendrix died of a heroin overdose at age 27 in 1970 will be open to the public starting next year.
And who knew that the pad in London's snooty Mayfair section is adjacent to one occupied a couple centuries earlier by composer George Frideric Handel?
* Variety reports that the first Miss Universe Pageant of the post-Donald Trump era will be broadcast on the Fox network from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Dec. 20. Under previous owner (and current wannabe undocumented-Mexican wrangler) Trump, the annual exercise in intellectual jousting and scientific debate aired on NBC.
- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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