What do Russell Brand, Kanye West and Justin Bieber have in common? They didn’t find Jesus at the height of their power, they found Him in the aftermath, at moments when their public personas were taking a major bruising.

It’s a familiar arc, one worthy of best dramas: scandal, then salvation.

Brand has shifted from “Shagger of The Year”, a title given to him by The Sun, to facing charges of rape and sexual assault, and now a very public conversion to Christianity. His finding of faith is in fact so public he announced his baptism on his YouTube channel in 2024, has written a book about becoming Christian, and attended a court hearing with a Bible in hand.

Brand has denied criminal wrongdoing and is due to stand trial later this year. Watching him on Piers Morgan Uncensored, where he spent an excruciating couple of minutes flicking through the Bible trying to find the exact passage he wanted to read out in court (a highlighter wouldn’t have gone amiss), it’s hard not to notice how insanely........

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