The Great British Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer
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Christopher Stevens says Russell Brand’s greatest talent is his ego. He is testimony to the power of self-delusion over reality
Russell Brand’s greatest talent is his ego. He is testimony to the power of self-delusion over reality.
On the face of it, he’s an abject mediocrity: a third-rate TV host and unfunny stand-up who, convinced of his own brilliance, blagged a lead role in a Hollywood movie, Get Him To The Greek (it was dire, and then some).
Marriage to pop star Katy Perry followed (short-lived and acrimonious), as did a best-selling autobiography (unreadably pretentious) and a moronic foray into politics (urging young people to boycott the 2015 election — I bet Ed Miliband curses Brand’s name every day).
Yet he still preens as though he were a demi-god sent from Olympus. He might look like Charles Manson, with his long curls and greying beard, and sound like David Beckham reading a dictionary, but he certainly fooled Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith on The Great Celebrity Bake Off (C4).
The first of five one-day challenges, with stars competing to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer, pitted Brand against a real A-list actor, John Lithgow, as well as a genuinely funny comic, Jon Richardson, and a woman who scooped a clutch of gold medals at the Paralympics, wheelchair racer ‘Hurricane’ Hannah Cockcroft.
Russell Brand's biscuity self-portrait in The Great British Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer resembled the Dalai Lama, while his wife was reduced to crude gynaecology
Russell Brand's biscuit creation on The Great British Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer
She is a bona fide superhuman, unbeatable over any distance from 100 to 800 metres — combining Usain Bolt’s speed with Roger Bannister’s stamina. But the Bake Off gang barely stopped to say hello as they rushed to fawn over Brand.
For the showstopper round, the bakers made biscuits to
