10 Things You Didn't Know About Russell Brand

By Rachel Bailey /

9. His Dad Bought Him A Prostitute

At sixteen years old Russell Brand took a trip to the far east with his father who he rarely spent time with, and admits to having a rather sporadic relationship with. As a boy, he grew up with his mother, who contracted cancer, and then lived with other relatives. While in Hong Kong his dad took him to an establishment where they picked up three prostitutes and went back to their hotel room. Russell revealed in his book: 'In the course of the rest of that holiday, I had sex with loads more prostitutes€™ as he and his father went on to visit Bali, Singapore and Thailand. Do we blame his dad for his later sex-addiction or...?