I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.

Of his time presenting the show he said "The three years I've spent on Big Brother's Big Mouth have been an unprecedented joy". He starred in the 2011 remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore film Arthur. He presented Dancefloor Chart touring nightclubs in Britain and Ibiza and hosted the tea-time request show Select.

He married American pop singer Katy Perry in October 2010; they separated in December 2011 and were divorced the following year. In 2007 he had his first major film role in St Trinian's. In 2004 Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth a Big Brother spin-off.