Revealed: Exactly how much money scandal-hit Russell Brand has made in the last year - as I expose his VERY surprising new living arrangements: RICHARD EDEN

His spiritual safari led to his baptism in the Thames last year, leaving him, he said, feeling ‘incredibly blessed’ and ‘nourished’ – as well as the beneficiary of a manly hug from the very embodiment of muscular Christianity, Bear Grylls. Comedian turned ‘thought leader’ Russell Brand earns his money by posting videos on Rumble Brand, right, is baptised in the Thames last year by Bear Grylls, far left Rumble, which prides itself on being ‘immune from cancel culture’, has evidently delivered the goods: accounts for Brand’s main production company, Pablo Diablo’s Legitimate Business Firm Ltd, show that it has now amassed more than £8 million – more than £3 million up on the year before. ‘I told my mum afterwards what I had done and she said, “I would have never let you go if you were going to do that kind of stuff”.’ Churchill's barge finds safe harbour The future of MV Havengore, the funeral barge which bore Sir Winston Churchill’s coffin along the Thames as cranes dipped in an unscripted final salute, has hung in the balance. It gets a lot of attention.’ Top civil servants including Cabinet Office boss Cat Little and media mastermind Kate Taylor Tett are just back from a splashy ‘global government summit’ in Singapore.