It's only a week since we saw Katy Perry snogging the face off her new bloke Robert Ackroyd.
Which makes these pictures of Russell Brand - daring to go so far as to HOLD HANDS with a lady friend - look positively tame.
We're not even sure their fingers are interlaced - this might as well be biblical times.
The mystery lady was accompanying Russell to Nancy's Garden Party, a fundraiser held at Miauhaus Studios in LA.
She's almost definitely not going to yoga in that   Yoo hoo Russ! We're over here She's not serious enough to accompany him on the red carpet though "There's an Englishman, an Irishman..." "... and, er, a small child"
She was a bit different to Russell's... read more