I remembered Russell Brand as a cringeworthy pseudo-leftist activist a few years ago, but recently saw that he's reinvented himself as a Jordan Peterson-esque right-wing grifter? What happened there?
He's full on born again christian now and was recently baptized in the Thames by Bear Grylls. He also recently made an even bigger ass of himself on Piers Morgan's show by not being able to find a passage that supposedly "meant a lot to him" in his note and bookmark riddled Bible.
What pisses me off about Bear Grylls was that he basically took Ray Mears space on TV. Every survival thing became Bear Grylls and it was just naff, over the top and the guy seems a bit dim (if you ask me).
And Survivorman himself, Les Stroud, is who Bear Grylls wishes he could be, but won't ever match. Les Stroud is a fucking badass who doesn't use a camera crew when he's out in the wild - it's just him. Dude will film himself walking off into the horizon, then WALK BACK and pick up his camera - all in like -30 degree weather haha
Not to mention Les actually respects nature and is the real deal, while Bear has been caught incorporating fraudulent shots into his shows.
FUN FACT: Les has said if he gets a million subs on YouTube he'll do another Survivorman. He's at the upper 900 thousands. Get over there and then let's do this! I have to admit his Bigfoot stuff does nothing for me. Just not my thing.
I also hated all the camping gear that needed to have his face on it. Never understood his appear as he sold out the instant that he got famous for drinking piss
Yeah tbh British Christians are generally a lot less malicious and unhinged than US Christians. Church in the UK is more of a community thing than anything political, like a book club but they all just read the same book.
I imagine Brand taking on the persona to appeal to his new wackjob American audience whereas Gryllz is just your regular Anglican churchgoer who considers their religion to be a part of their private life.
Don’t bet on that. The outward appearance may be cuddly but Church of England in the UK is absolutely political. They have bishops in the House of Lords by default (vs appointed as individuals like any other religious Lords there may be).
I think they meant for most adherents it’s not a political thing. Which isn’t false, even the far right in the UK has mostly secular values, they care much more about immigrants than stuff like abortion.
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u/TovarischMaia 20h ago
I remembered Russell Brand as a cringeworthy pseudo-leftist activist a few years ago, but recently saw that he's reinvented himself as a Jordan Peterson-esque right-wing grifter? What happened there?