Branded

Surely all of our devoted readers are by now up to speed on the story of Russell Brand and Wossy's childish phone call to Andrew 'Manuel' Sachs, in which Wossy told him Brand had doinked his granddaughter.

So far, not-so-hilarious, one might think (and much like Fawlty Towers in that regard.) So not-so-hilarious, in fact, that The Times ran an editorial denouncing the prank. Ouch.

Two questions, though:

1) Sachs' granddaughter is an innocent young lady called Georgina Baillie... who also goes by the name of 'Voluptua', belongs to a group called Satanic Sluts Extreme and describes herself publicly as a swinger.

None of which warrants a call to Sachs' house, of course, but might be considered to give Brand and Ross some wriggle room when it comes to writing their apologies. (Not to mention that, if, heaven forfend, Ross's remark should turn out to be true, the Beeb can stop worrying about defamation suits.)

2) Lodging a complaint on Mr Sachs' behalf, theatrical agent Meg Pool said that the infamous 'Portuguese' prat-faller was "offended very much indeed."

Well NOW who's being childish?!