Double Trouble: Katy Perry and Russell Brand are entertainers in the true sense, but together they are a house on fire. Right from the proposal to their wedding, more crazy stories than one can count have come up.
Katy-Russell get married: American singer Katy Perry and British comedian Russell Brand are both entertainers in the their own right, but together they are a house on fire. Decked in traditional style, the couple reportedly said 'I do' in the presence of select guests at the Aman-i-Khas resort near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary as a priest chanted mantras around the traditional fire.
East meets West: Brand led the marriage procession in a horse, flanked by elephants and camels. It is the same spot where the improved Lothario proposed to the 'Rude Boy' hitmaker this December. To make the wedding a memorable affair, the couple had invited folk musicians and snake charmers to entertain the high profile guests.
According to rumors, not only had Katy covered her whole body with mehndi tattoos, but even Russell was inked for the big day. Sandip Soparrkar and supermodel wife Jesse Randhawa had a performance ready, and famous rapper friend P Diddy was also present to do his bit.
This love story is full of excitement, lets take a look...
Katy Perry, real name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, has always been 'One of the Boys'. Raised as a strict Catholic she was not allowed to listen to what her mother called 'secular music'. A typical 'California Girl', she always had the makings of a rebel.
Copycatting her elder sister, she started singing and soon people discovered a real talent. Perry's singing in church attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville.
Next Big Thing: Aged 16, she released her first album Katy Hudson. A gospel-rock album, it did not do well. Katy subsequently dropped her surname Hudson as it was "too close to Kate Hudson" and adopted her mother's maiden name Perry.
Not a One-time wonder: Her next, One of the Boys established her as a singer image and brought her to the notice of Material Girl Madonna. Tracks like You're So Gay, Hot N Cold and I Kissed A Girl were unconventional and became a nation-wide rage.
Her latest album Teenage Dream recently released and has been quite a success. The single 'California Gurls' is the fastest rising single from a Capitol Records artist since Bobbie Gentry's 'Ode to Billie Joe'.
She has made a number of cameo appearances on TV shows, including The Young and the Restless, Wildfire and Sesame Street, mainly as herself.
Katy had been a guest judge on both American Idol and X Factor. She even performed Firework live on X Factor, all for her fans!
Known for her unconventional dressing sense, she can give the likes of Lady Gaga a run for their money. With fruits as assessories, this diva takes eye-popping fashion to another level. Inspired by Dominique's Lolita, her fashion is reminiscent of decades of culture mixed in an interesting 'vintage concoction'.
A Class Act: A master at everything, at the 2009 Music Awards she turned up inlooking like a real diva.
Her innumerable on-stage performances have always made headlines for their ‘unreal' nature.
After a turbulent on-off relationship with Gym Class Heroes frontman Travie McCoy, she met her Knight in shining armor Russell Brand on the sets of Get Him To the Greek. Russell, as is widely known, is quite a character himself...
Russell (Russell Edward Brand), is known just as much for his unique humor as for his unending controversies. As the only child whose parents had separated when he was only half a year old, Russell had a lonely and traumatic childhood. At the age of 6, he was sexually abused by his tutor.
At 14, Russell had turned into a bulimic drug addict. Hooked onto any drug available, he left his ailing mother when she moved in with her new partner. He stated in an interview that he had a rather strange relationship with his father "whom he saw sporadically and who took him to visit prostitutes during a trip to the Far East".
Stand-Up: His first significant stand-up appearance was at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year. In his confessional Better Now, he gave an honest account of his heroin addiction, returning the following year with Eroticized Humor. Nationwide tour Shame drew on his own incidents since he had become famous. His second nationwide tour, in 2007, was called Russell Brand: Only Joking and released on DVD as Russell Brand: Doin' Life and was truly 'Scandalous'!
His affair with MTV as a VJ was shortlived when Russell decided it would be funny to dress as terrorist Osama Bin Laden the day after 9/11. Really, Russell!! As if getting your drug dealer to the studios was not enough...
With his comic partner Matt Morgan, he then starred in RE: Brand. Shown on now-defunct UK play, it was a British comedy documentary for a noble cause. Read, removing social taboos, Russell-style.
Russell capitalized on the hype around Big Brother with Big Brother's Big Mouth. And the public got a chance to have their say on the going-ons inside the house.
Shocker Alert: His provocative statements even led to death threats by some but there was no stopping this man. He implored the audience to elect Barack Obama and later called then–US President George W. Bush "a retarded cowboy fella", who, in England, "wouldn't be trusted with scissors".
Trying his hand at writing, he started with columns. A collection of these as Irons in the Fire and Articles of Faith has been published. About his autobiography, My Booky Wook, The Observer commented that it 'put most other memoirs to shame'.
Believe it or not, he even sings. Playing Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, he recorded quite a few songs for both.
He has named his cat after his favourite singer Morissey. A flamboyant bohemian, he is a pure vegetarian and claims he has 'bipolar disorder'.
Having suffered from a long period of self-harm, Brand is a spiritualist who chants Hare Krishna for drug rehabilitation. Planning on bring out the same in Katy too, Brand?
Brand was still relatively unknown but hosting 2008 MTV Video Music Awards was not without controversy. At one point, he said the night "marked the launch of a very new Britney Spears era", He also said, "If there was a female Christ, it's Britney".
Ladies' Man: For his innumerable high-profile relationships, Brand has in his 'honor' an award by The Sun. Having won it not once, not twice, but three times. All in good fun, of course!
At MTV Video Music Awards, host Brand remarked "Katy Perry didn't win an award and she's staying at the same hotel as me, so she's gonna need a shoulder to cry on. So in a way, I'm the real winner tonight." Quite a charmer!!!
After Perry claims she threw a bottle of water at Brand to get his attention and then they went clubbing. What a lovely story!
Brand proposed to Katy while holidaying in India last year and since then there has been excitement in the international media about their plans for a Big Fat Indian wedding.
