Brand's Bible Blunder: Mockery & Scandal

0:00It's April 25th, from red carpets to breaking stories. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News, powered by AI. Russell Brand, the 50-year-old former actor now pushing right-wing podcasts, faced major online mockery after fumbling through his Bible on peers. Morgan's show this Friday. He carried that Bible to his sexual assault and rape hearing back in February, but when Morgan pressed him for a standout verse, Brand spent about a minute and a half flipping pages before settling on one. This awkward moment hit right after Brand's bombshell admission on Meghan Kelly's show, where he owned up to exploitative sex with a 16-year-old. Girl, when he was 30, on Morgan's program, he called it morally and spiritually wrong, even if not illegal, and said it hurts knowing he caused suffering. Social media lit up with ridicule over the Bible struggle, painting Brand as insincere in his born-again Christian phase that kicked off this year. He's facing rape and assault charges with a UK trial set for later this year, while

1:02basing himself in the U.S. Morgan didn't hold back, accusing Brand of being a clever grifter, with no real principles, just using words to hustle his new MAGA aligned image. As Brand navigates these scandals in his spiritual pivot, I stay glued on that courtroom showdown ahead.