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Russell Brand covers up and joins protest
Justin Davenport, Crime Correspondent01.04.09
Russell Brand joined the mass of protesters outside the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street today.
Wearing a black woollen hat and scarf around his face, and with a small group of friends, he waved and gave the thumbs-up to fellow demonstrators.
Brand, who caused outrage last year when he and Jonathan Ross made obscene phone calls to actor Andrew Sachs, said: "I always come to these kind of things, I'm very interested. I am interested in learning and interested in why these people have come to this. I wonder what alternatives there are and I think it makes people cogent of them. I think it's also very beautiful."
On the Twitter website he wrote: "I'm going to the Bank of England, amidst today's protest, I shall march in and demand a shiny new sixpence or I will install myself as boss."
Reader views (6)
He looks a lot better with that mop covered.
- Stirfry, San Diego, USA
Who cares......!?
- Radz, Expat!, Copenhagen , Denmark.
Overpaid by taxpayers and with no discernable talent - Brand is in good company
- Simon, London
Oh Wussell, you put the twee in tweet.
- Bloke, London
Interestingly, when asked by Sky News his reason for being there he had nothing to say. An attention-seeking idiot!
- Dweezle, London, City
I thought most of the demonstrators were naive or dole scrounging scumbags.
Then I heard Russell Brand was involved, and suddenly they seemed not so bad.
Martin
- Martin, Bracknell England
