Ananova:

Russell Brand is offering celebrity support to a Polish worker who was caught in the act with a vacuum cleaner.

The builder claimed he was cleaning his underpants with Henry Hoover when he was found in a hospital's staff canteen.

When later questioned by his employers, the man said he was vacuuming his underpants, which was "a common practice in Poland". He has since been fired.

However, Brand wrote in The Sun: "One ought not feel contempt for the Polish builder apprehended at a hospital having sex with Henry the hoover, although there's little in that sentence that suggests an alternative reaction.

"The lure of Henry is a force I once succumbed to as a lonely youth, it was a reckless and impetuous act - I was in my teens and my options were limited.

"Any argument to defend his human rights on the basis of 'what a builder does in the privacy of his own home is no one else's business' must be tempered by the fact that this event took place in Great Ormond Street hospital.

"Perhaps ultimately the manufacturers of these sexy little appliances ought be held responsible. Who in their right mind designs a machine with the capacity for suction and then puts a face on it?

"You might as well put eyelashes on a toaster."