Russell Brand’s preaching has earned him a spectacular new home (Picture: Mary Turner/Getty Images)

Russell Brand has taken a slightly luxurious detour from his path to revolution by reportedly buying himself a £3.3m countryside home.

According to The Sun, Russell is lounging around ‘taking pictures of swans’ at his postcard-worthy, six-bed, riverside retreat in Henley-on-Thames.

And when he’s not doing that – or planning his stall for the posh village regatta – he’s playing games on his XBox and PS4, according to his mate Noel Gallagher.

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Brand’s new home, obviously the epicentre of sociopolitical change (Picture: Ballards Estate Agents)

Noel said: ‘[Russell] told me he is writing another book. I said what is it going to be called this time? “Now about that revolution that never took place”.



‘He is playing Xbox. Revolutionary Russell is playing PS4.’

Perhaps he’s playing Call Of Duty: Black Ops where one mission is to assassinate founding father of Communism, Fidel Castro.

Russell was previously criticised for renting a very pricey London apartment from a company registered in a tax haven – after attacking tax-dodging firms in his 2014 book Revolution.

After taking a break from his YouTube channel The Trews and bowing out of politics, it’s doubtful the 40-year-old’s new pad will play host to many revolutionary rallies any time soon.

Unless there’s tea and sponge cake, of course. Then someone might come.

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