Russell Brand appears on Thursday’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (presumably to promote his role in Rock of Ages), and naturally, the subject of his divorce from Katy Perry came up in conversation. If you’ll recall, Russell lied through his substantially sized teeth about being very happily married to Katy when he appeared on Ellen’s show in early December. I always wonder how Ellen feels when she knows celebrities are brazenly making sh-t up on her show, but I guess that’s just part of interviewing the so-called upper crust. Ellen isn’t being paid to dig out the truth of the matter; it’s her job to interview celebrities in an entertaining matter, and she usually succeeds. Here’s what Russell had to say about the demise of his marriage. (video clip below):

On Ellen’s question about the “big change”: “All right thank you. Because me and Katy got divorced. I still, love her as a human being. But, sometimes when you’re in a relationship I suppose it doesn’t work out, does it? But that doesn’t mean I regret it or anything. I was very happy to be married with her. She’s such a beautiful human being and I just have only love and positivity for her. You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation. That is still a person I still consider to be beautiful and I have nothing but positivity for her.”

[From “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”]

So does Russell really hold fond memories of his time with Katy? Who knows, but at this point in time, I think Russell is sort of in love with the entire world. It still bothers me whenever celebrities put on a “kumbaya” act about how wonderful their marriage was when they obviously had good reason for ending things with the other person, but Russell is such an articulate man, and it’s hard not to fall under his spell.

In related news, the media went into some strange frenzy last week because Russell finally unfollowed Katy on Twitter. We didn’t cover it because who cares? The guy had already filed for divorce, so the fact that he clicked the “unfollow” button on Twitter matters, well, not at all. It’s strange that people were paying attention to who he follows anyway. So weird.

Here’s a cute little diversion as well from “Ellen” — where Russell meets Sophia Grace and Rosie, the 8-year-old and 5-year-old UK singing sensations who appear quite often on Ellen’s show. He’s so charming to them and makes a cute joke about them all escaping from Essex:

Russell’s really great with kids, isn’t he? Maybe he’ll have some of his own someday if and when he really settles down. Finally, here’s some assorted Russell scarf pr0n because, quite frankly, I’ve been really missing it and can’t help myself.

Photos courtesy of “Ellen” and WENN