BBC exile still accepted by lovers of lentils, sandals and beards

In case you didn’t know, popular sex addict and keen West Ham supporter Russell brand likes to show his command of unnecessarily big words in a weekly Guardian sport column. According to our mole at Guardian HQ, he will be scribbling his thoughts in tomorrow’s edition of the paper - whether he talks about his conquests or poorly-thought out gag that was blown hideously out of proportion remains to be seen.

(An unfortunate victim of the whole ManuelGate scandal is Brand’s Radio 2 co-host Matt Morgan: he was away on holiday when the incident occurred, and returned to find his stable source of income no longer existed.)

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