Brand, Perry 'spend Christmas apart'

Russell Brand and Katy Perry are spending Christmas apart after Perry returned home to Los Angeles.

The pair had been spotted out in London numerous times over the last week, taking a sledge ride on Hampstead Heath and visiting a West Ham game.

After Perry left, Brand was reportedly sighted emerging from a Soho drop-in centre looking "sombre".

Previously, Brand had joked that he would be spending Christmas Day in church repenting. 'I'm going to be in church, dressed in sackcloth, whipping myself on the back for being a bad boyfriend to a good Christian girl," he told the Daily Star.

"My Christmas is so traditional that I hang around in a stable worshipping a baby. I haven't got any brothers or sisters so I'll be with my mum, some of my mates, and I'll see my girlfriend and in-laws."