Inside Russell Brand and Laura Gallacher’s marriage

Laura Gallacher’s life was permanently changed by a fortuitous meeting on the towpath of a canal in London’s East End. A buddy coaxed her out of her flat for a walk eight years ago, after her relationship ended. Russell Brand was walking near her house, fresh off his own divorce from American singer Katy Perry. It felt ‘like he’d planned it,’ says Ms Gallacher, the younger sister of television actress Kirsty Gallacher and the daughter of golfer Bernard Gallacher, 87, who dated the infamous comic when she was 18 years old.