“Goodbye For Now” – Russell Brand Quits Social Media

Russell Brand has announced that he has quit social media for the foreseeable future. The 40-year-old revealed that he would be taking a break from Twitter, Facebook and The Trews, his YouTube series, in order to focus on “learning” as “real change is coming”. “I’m not going to be doing The Trews, I’m not going to be on Twitter, or Facebook, I’m going to be learning because I know real change is coming and I want to be part of that,” he announced in a video.

Final episode of the Trews - goodbye, also off Twitter for a while https://t.co/HVAul5wfHV

— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) August 20, 2015

“I’m going away to think and to learn, because it’s worth it and there is a possibility of change," he added. “Trew be continued – we will be ending on a bad pun. Goodbye for now.”