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Hey, everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, and what a show we have for you today.

Russell Brand is here, and this is going to be unlike anything you've ever seen here

on the MK show. We first met several years ago on my set at NBC, where he came out and at the time

was full of energy and a huge star. And even back then, I remember said something like,

you're far less polarizing than people tell me you are.

And we bond it immediately. He's, of course, a British comedian. He's an actor. He's a media personality.

And he knows a thing or two about being polarizing now himself, unfortunately. Rising to fame back in the 2000s as a stand-up comic and landing high-profile

roles in Hollywood films like forgetting Sarah Marshall and get him to the Greek, not to mention

the animated blockbusters, despicable me, trolls, and minions. He appeared on TV shows,

comedy programs, and landed on the front cover of the Rolling Stone.

How about that as an iconic image of him?

And he was further catapulted into the headlines with his high-profile marriage to pop star Katie Perry.

Everyone wanted to know every detail about their lives.

They were one of the it couples of the decade until the marriage ended a couple of years later in divorce.

In recent years, he's reinvented himself as a host and a commentator amassing millions of

followers and content focused on politics, media criticism, and what he describes as threats

to free speech, particularly during the COVID pandemic where he was absolutely fearless,

questioning government policies,

big pharma, and mainstream narratives in a way few were, and it was bold and it was noticed by

the British government. Brand has also spoken openly about his personal turn towards spirituality

and Christianity, saying that his faith has given him a sense of peace after years of

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