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Who Should Katy Perry And Russell Brand Date Next?

Look, we’re all feeling pretty bummed about Katy Perry and Russell Brand’s divorce, but it’d be a shame to let all those Spandex dresses and extremely tight man vests languish in the closet for too long. It’s only been a few days, but we’re going to go ahead and gently push these baby birds out of their break-up Snuggies and back into the dating world. Besides Rihanna and Florence Welch, of course, here are our recommendations for the very special men and women that can distract Katy and Russell from their respective heartaches. Or at least show them a good time. And, at the end of the day, isn’t that basically the same thing?

If Katy is looking for something casual and fun after the pain of a divorce, there are few men as casual and fun as Ashton Kutcher. Maybe a little too casual and fun, so clearly this is for rebounding only. If Katy’s into something a little more long term, might we suggest Jonah Hill? He’s looking real good this year, she probably already knows him from Russell’s work in Get Him To The Greek and we are 98% he’s not a former drug and sex addict. If Perry is hoping for a collabo both into and outside the bedroom, she and Drake could definitely make beautiful music together. Beautiful boning music.

As for Brand’s future lady friend, the first answer is obvious: Helen Mirren. Russell and the Dame have been publicly flirting forever. Yes, we know Helen is technically married, but she also has an Oscar for Best Actress. We’re pretty sure that gives her a freebie. It’s in the Academy’s bylaws. If Helen’s husband isn’t down with that, might we suggest Rashida Jones? Not only is the woman stunning, she’s also sardonic and smart as a whip, two qualities that a dry wit like Brand might be into. If Russell’s looking for ladies who skew more Perry-esque, Zooey Deschanel is single, ready-to-mingle, and basically looks like Katy in a Peter Pan collar. If it’s the catsuits and vocal gymnastics Russell likes, Jessie J has star power similar to his ex. Plus the woman even looks good in an air cast! What do you think? Who would you set Katy and Russell up with, if you were a less horrible version of Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger?

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Katy Perry And Russell Brand: We Have Planned Your Rebounds For You

We don’t like spreading vicious rumors here at TheFABlife. We don’t even enjoy reporting on good ones, if they don’t seem very true. But what we do like is imagining hypothetical maybe stories that would be very nice if they were true. Or something like that. Anyway, that’s what we’re doing as we figure out how to put a happy spin on the Russell Brand/Katy Perry split.

First, as background, the sad rumors: The U.K. Sunday Mirror reported that “insiders” said that the couple’s marriage has been on the rocks for a while and they’d even been in counseling because Brand, 36, wanted to leave his partying days behind him to settle down and start a family. But Perry, 27, didn’t want to be a housewife, the paper said. Also, they had mutually agreed to the divorce, but according to TMZ, Katy wanted Russell to file because her evangelical parents don’t believe in divorce (we’re pretty sure this technicality doesn’t get you off the hook, KP). One more sad thing, Russell was seen by himself at the Savoy hotel in London, and when someone at the gym told him happy New Year, he said, “Here’s hoping it gets happier.”

Oof. Now for happier rumors: Katy was able to have an upbeat New Year’s Eve, as people told the New York Post that she was partying it up in a private room at SoHo House in West Hollywood “One wouldn’t have ever even known that her husband had just filed for divorce,” a source told the paper.
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Russell Brand Files For Divorce From Katy Perry, Ruins Our New Years

OK, sorry we don’t mean to make this all about us, but we’re really sad to see this rumor confirmed: Russell Brand and Katy Perry are splitting after just over a year of marriage. Brand filed for divorce in Los Angeles today, and told People in a statement: “Sadly, Katy and I are ending our marriage. I’ll always adore her and I know we’ll remain friends.”

Perry and Brand had been spotted without their wedding rings as they celebrated the holidays apart this week, her on the beach in Hawaii and him in a pub in Coverack, Cornwall, England. A source said they had a “massive fight” before going their separate ways. And while everyone immediately said they’d be splitting up, we held out a tiny bit of hope that it was all nothing and they’d continue being one of the cutest couples of 2011, not one of the year’s shocking breakups. They really did seem like a sweetly odd pairing — him the very English reformed addict, her the California preacher’s daughter — and since they first started dating in 2009, they both kind of rose in our opinions. And there we go again, making this all about us, and how we’ll be ringing in 2012 with a little less of a belief in true celebrity love. Sigh.

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Did Katy And Russell Spend The Holidays Apart Due To A “Massive Fight”?

We’re imagining Russell Brand looking forlornly out a tavern window while a light snow starts to fall. Meanwhile Katy Perry…well, Katy Perry laughs and swims with dolphins, but inside you know she’s hurting! According to Us Weekly, the reason those Katy Perry bikini pics snapped earlier this week in Kauai featured the singer sans both husband and wedding ring is allegedly because the couple is reeling after an emotional holiday blowout. “They had a massive fight,” their source reports. “She was like, ‘F–k you. I’m going to do my own thing.’ Russell replied, ‘Fine, f–k you too.’” Hmm, that dialogue certainly seems plausible. Did they both happen to have Santa hats on? That’s how we’re picturing it, anyway.

The couple, who has been married since October 2010, had reportedly planned to spend Christmas in the Russell’s native U.K. After their alleged tiff, only Brand was spotted with a friend in a pub in Coverack, Cornwall. Hey, we understand. Whenever we have relationship problems, we like to drown our sorrows in pub food and skimpy bikinis barely able to contain our bosoms, too. Well, mainly the former. Not so much the latter. What do you think? Does spending the holidays on different continents signal the end of one of our favorite 30 Cutest Couples of 2011, or is Katy’s lack of a ring probably just tan line-related?

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The 30 Cutest Couples Of 2011 *That Aren’t Robsten

We’re gonna level with you, dear readers. Here at the FABLife, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson will get our vote for the cutest couple every year until the end of time. That’s just the way it goes! So, to make it fair for all of the other adorable love birds out there, we’ve taken them out of the competition. But we’ve made Robsten the gold standard by which we measure and rank the rest of the sweethearts! So please Twihards, don’t send us angry letters.

Sure, 2011 was largely seen as the Year of the Breakup. That doesn’t mean love didn’t flourish! We’ve asked stars who they think should earn the title of “Cutest Couple 2k11,” and their answers ranged from the predicable, to the, err … not so predictable. Tehmina Sunny and Amadou Ly both share our Robsten 4Lyfe sentiments, whereas David Cook and Chelsea Rendon were more Selena Gomez/Justin Bieber people. Roots drummer Questlove was pumped that puppet pals Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy got back together in the Muppets reboot, while Robin Thicke felt that Charlie Sheen and his nose candy made the perfect duo. Err, adorable, right? Watch the vid to see what other celebs had to say!

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Now that you’ve heard their views, check out our official TFL Cutest Couples list in the gallery below! Agree, disagree? Let us know in the comments!

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Russell Brand Visits Occupy Wall Street, Starts New Trend In Rain Gear

Last night, Russell Brand joined the ranks of famous folk showing support for the Occupy Wall Street crowd. We’d insert some joke about the life lessons he learned about America’s great class divide while on the set of Arthur, except ole Rusty already has a history of supporting anti-capitalist protests (and this is a real history, not like the one we made up for Penn Badgley). Back in 2009 he appeared at the G20 protests in London. So there, celebrity skeptics. He also tweeted his support of protesters in London last week.

Wife Katy Perry also took to Twitter to co-sign Russell’s participation. “i know my hubby @rustyrockets is there now…still… reppin us both! Tell him to call his wife if you see him! lolz.”

One thing, Katy. Next time the husband goes out into a protest in the rain, make sure he brings an umbrella or a jacket. Maybe the clear plastic bag was a statement of solidarity, but it’s also just silly.

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Katy Perry Is Officially A Pink Lady

Y’all know that Katy Perry dyed her hair pink, right? You would think that would be all the “WOAH, that’s some intense pink” she could manage. How wrong you would be! Mrs. Brand husband Russell’s mother, Barbara Elizabeth, to watch Ghost the Musical at Piccadilly Theatre in London. They then went to Nobu Berkley, and let’s just say that sneaking out of the back door didn’t work. Katy, lit up by the flash of many cameras obviously, was extremely pink. Check out the pink hair, shocking pink dress and those fuchsia lips. Too much? On someone else perhaps, but somehow Katy just about pulls it off! Do you agree?

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A Bookish Russell Brand’s T-Shirt Has Opinions!

Nice T-shirt, Russell Brand! It reads, “Heroin Killed The Radio Star”, FYI. Too clever, by half don’t you think? Not the best choice, perhaps, for a former drug addict. But he’s always had a kooky sense of humor which makes him so damn endearing! We’re also quite bemused with Russell’s choice of lunch companion — books! While heading to Swingers restaurant in L.A, Russell carried The Lost Dogs by Jim Gorant and 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck with him. So many shades to this man. What you don’t see, is that wife Katy Perry also joined him. So we wonder how much reading he actually got done.

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Russell Brand Looks Back On His Carefree Rioting Days

While most of us associate him with Get Him To The Greek or making love to Katy Perry, there’s another role Russell Brand’s U.K. riot comments are introducing to the world: anarchist rioter. Brand wrote an essay for the Guardian UK, in which the British comedian admits “I should here admit that I have been arrested for criminal damage for my part in anti-capitalist protest earlier in this decade. I often attended protests and then, in my early 20s, and on drugs, I enjoyed it when the protests lost direction and became chaotic, hostile even.” Russell, no! You’re going to ruin the legacy of Hop for everybody! Or at least the eight people who saw it!

We’ve read about Russell Brand’s drug addiction and other dark elements of his past, but this seems like a new wrinkle in the man who would be Arthur. “I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me,” the comedian writes, before admitting “I don’t know enough about politics to ponder a solution and my hands are sticky with blood money from representing corporate interests through film, television and commercials.” Not as sticky as the high jinks Russell gets into in Rock of Ages, coming out summer 2012. Just kidding, though Brand tries to make Hop 2, we will start flipping over cars ourselves.

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Russell Brand Gets Booted Out Of Japan, Katy Perry Gets Her Claws Out

Tough break for this husband-wife duo. Katy Perry is in Japan on the Asian leg of her California Dreams tour. And all she wanted was for her hubby, Russell Brand, to join her. Which he did. Well, almost did. Okay, he came close had it not been for Japanese authorities, because they booted Brand out of the country! This doesn’t happen too often to celebrities, does it? But yes, Russell Brand was officially deported out of Japan , apparently, for incidents stemming from a decade ago!

Katy tweeted about the unceremonious kicking out writing, “So…my husband just got deported from Japan. I am so. sad. I brought him all this way to show him my favorite place #tokyodreamscrushed”. Then Katy tweeted her displeasure by way of hastags and an explanation with, “It was for priors from over 10 years ago!…” Translation for the tags: Mama is not happy. Don’t mess with my man. You want to play, let’s go. Got that, Japanese deportation dudes? Arigato.

Russell dealt with his cards with a lot more humor, as expected. Brand tweeted, “Planning escape from Japanese custody. It’s bloody hard to dig a tunnel with a chopstick” along with a picture (not looking too beat up about the whole deal). Russell’s next tweet had us in splits! It read, “Stockholm syndrome kicking in. Just asked my guard out for (vegetarian) sushi. He giggled.” We’re giggling too about this whole mess too. We wouldn’t dare to around Katy, though!

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