Russell Brand In Playboy: I Hired A Sex Team To Find Girls

Before he was engaged to Katy Perry, Russell Brand got his fill of meaningless sex. His sex addiction was once so raging he hired a team to help him target women.

"When I was at my most promiscuous, I was like a charging locomotive," Brand tells Playboy in the June issue. "My selection process was outsourced. I had a team of experts who took care of finding women for me. They had very specific instructions. It was as if I was talking to a wine steward - 'I'm looking for something French, a bit fruity, smells of oak.'"

Not that he misses his old ways.

"I've reached a point in my life where I understand empirically that this is not the answer," he said. "When you sleep with loads of women, it becomes a bit pointless and futile."

Now a reformed sex addict, Brand also talked about the sex rehab population.

"The majority of people in sex rehab are just disgusting men," he said. "There aren't hot blondes ripping off their clothes and saying, 'I'm gorgeous, and I just can't get enough!' It's just sleazy men pleasuring themselves in dark corners. Let's not shy away from it: they're pedophiles and perverts."

Comments

[verbaldata]

07:09 PM on 05/28/2010

why pull a john mayer in playboy and gross everyone out when you're engaged to a perfectly nice young lady? still, i give him a pass as a comedian. quite often you've got to be outrageous to be funny. mayer has no excuse whatsoever, besides clearly belonging to that group of sleazeballs masturbating in dark (probably public) corners. ewww. yuck

[Res13]

03:49 PM on 05/24/2010

Get Him To The Greek is going to be hysterical. Brand is sure to amuse.

[xbrooklyngrrl]

12:50 PM on 05/14/2010

I would advise Brand to hire one of thsoe forensic clean-up crews to scrub his body down.

[Mensch99]

09:32 AM on 05/14/2010

I must admit, I never heard of this guy.
Who is he?
I just thought the bizarre photo and caption were interesting.
I think celebrities make these outlandish statements so people like me will hear their names.

[BigBagel]

09:36 AM on 05/14/2010

I think he's the new British prime minister. I'm not really sure.

[liquidzen11]

09:35 AM on 05/15/2010

Brand is a very famous British comedian. Extremely funny, highintelligent...

[robjh1]

08:59 AM on 05/14/2010

Katy Perry, Russell Brand????? Excuse me???? Are they of importance or merely entertainment. I have been living under a rock in this big world of ours. Yawn.

[pa30]

07:55 AM on 05/14/2010

He could have just used the Ark State Patrol.

[gayleg]

07:29 AM on 05/14/2010

"Let's not shy away from it: they're pedophiles and perverts."

They're also porn addicts who don't view women as human beings.

[Rendon76]

06:52 AM on 05/14/2010

I get it... he's the "charging locomotive" and the other guys are the disgusting men and perverts.

[blackdog911]

05:38 AM on 05/14/2010

Well just look at him......It had better have been the A-team or he's doing without.

[Lefty Pockets]

05:19 AM on 05/14/2010

Brand isn't a sex addict. He's a man with a large sex drive and nearly endless opportunities.

[cef911f1]

04:02 AM on 05/14/2010

Looks like the Geico caveman. No wonder he needs help.

[lmlynley]

01:35 AM on 05/14/2010

I love Russell but I am not thrilled that he is "reforming." I like him rakish and available.

[Deli]

01:20 AM on 05/14/2010

He is the first honest one of them, as far as I can tell, though I always wonder if true rehabilitation is possible and if Perry won't be regretting things in a few years. But it does sound like he got it out of his system. Maybe Tiger would have, too, given a few more years and cankers.

Also, people ripping his choice of words. He is a humorist. A comedian. He is hilarious. Outsourced? Great choice.

[SPAIN62]

01:06 AM on 05/14/2010

Oh, when will this awful fad of wearing those ugly oversized 70's sunglasses end?

[Googie2]

11:34 PM on 05/13/2010

I am a little surprised to find so many people on this particular website bashing this artist. The mean spirited slant on many of these posts is just bizarre. All he is saying is that he has sown some wild oats, an that he grew tired of it. Does anyone doubt that sex rehab has some creepy participants?

[hidenout]

11:59 PM on 05/13/2010

The guy hired,,,,freaking hired,,,, a team of people to find women for him....?? He's a narcissistic loser. I mean part of the thrill is the chase.....it'd be like going on a safari at the zoo.

[MrDiogenes]

12:58 AM on 05/14/2010

I agree, word “outsourced” has a bad connotation, but it is not as if he outsourced those jobs to China or India, I’m sure he used local residents and they didn’t do it for free! It’s called jab creation!

:-)

[Googie2]

01:01 AM on 05/14/2010

So long as no one was forced into anything against their will, I do not see the harm. Being a comic, he may also be prone to hyperbole. People hire dating services. It is fine if his method disgusts you personally, but I do not see anything worth vilification.

[darker]

01:20 AM on 05/14/2010

oh my, yet another "artist". specializing in flush-it art. Yikes.

[Googie2]

01:29 AM on 05/14/2010

Bird's gotta fly, fish gotta swim. Recovered heroin addict's gotta create laughter in world full of garbage, some of which litters this comments page. He works for a living and gets paid. In society, it is known as comic art. It is fine if his style is not your Brand. (Couldn't help it)