Russell Brand’s stay in the ‘winky-nick’

It's a tough life for British comedian and TV presenter Russell Brand. He reveals in his autobiography, My Booky Wook, that becoming famous was like finding a "Willie Wonka ticket to a sex factory" and boasts that at one time he had a harem of ten women on the go.
 
But it hasn't all been a bed of roses for the 32-year-old ex-junkie. As his string of dalliances, which included Kate Moss and Sadie Frost, grew longer, so his concerns over his burgeoning sex addiction grew. "Shagging - incessant as it was - no longer seemed to have the required calming effect."
 
His manager, John Noel, who had helped Brand recover from his previous addiction to heroin, was so worried that he booked his charge into a US clinic - a "winky-nick" in Brand's inimitable words.
 
The comedian spent a month at the KeyStone clinic in Philadelphia curbing his urges, though not without some external help - he sneaked in a copy of UK tabloid the Sun to keep his spirits up. The comic hastily booked himself out of the clinic when he discovered that his roommate was a paedophile, and has since felt on top of his 'affliction'.
 
Wild-haired Brand first came to fame as a presenter on MTV before crossing over to mainstream TV by fronting Channel 4's Big Brother coverage. His autobiography also reveals that Brand lost his virginity in Hong Kong to a prostitute paid for by his father. ·