Russell Brand is to reprise his breakthrough movie role in a sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

The comic confirmed that he had agreed to the follow-up, saying: ‘I’ll be playing Aldous Snow again, back on drugs, all mental.’

Co-stars Kristen Bell and Jason Segel, who wrote the original, have reportedly been approached about the Universal Studios film, but none has yet confirmed their involvement.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller is currently working on another film in which Brand plays an out-of-control rock star, Get Me To The Greek. In this film, Jonah Hill plays a wet-behind-the-ears insurance adjuster instructed to ensure Brand’s wildman gets to a gig.

Brand’s comments came in an interview with Radio 1’s Newsbeat in which he also said he couldn’t rule out making more hoax calls, despite the storm of controversy his call to Northampton police caused.

The comic said he was ‘surprised’ by the reaction to his on-stage stunt, in which he called a witness line claiming to have seen a sex attacker who had been targeting women in the town.

But although he apologised for the call, he today said he could repeat such a ‘spontaneous’ act in a future show.

Brand told Radio 1’s Newsbeat: ‘ I think it’s clear that I would never seek to glean laughter from people that have been in any way victimised or shoddily treated. I was surprised by some of the moralising.

Asked if he would do it again, he said: ‘Who knows, possibly. You can never rule that out, that’s the nature of spontaneity, things just sometimes happen.’

The 33-year-old, who is performing at a charity gig in aid of the drug rehab group Focus 12 tonight, complained about the newspaper backlash to his call during his recent visit to Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, claiming the reports treated him as badly as if he had been the attacker himself.

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Kristen Bell is making a return to the small screen for the forthcoming third season of hit TV series Heroes.

The actress, who joined the show’s cast in 2007, will reprise her role as Elle Bishop, a genetically advanced superhuman with the ability to electrocute her enemies.

She tells People.com, “I’m just happy to be electrocuting people again!”

Bell will star in the show’s season premiere, airing in the U.S. on September 22nd.

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Kristen recently opened up to MTV about her new movie: “I’m about to go to New York and Rome for 12 weeks to shoot this big Disney movie called ‘When in Rome,’ ” she explained. “It is, ideally, going to be next year’s ‘Enchanted,’ their big female-driven romantic comedy. I’m really excited about it. It’ll be the first time I’ve carried a movie this big on my shoulders.”

Along with having Duhamel and “a great, great cast [of] people who are negotiating now,” Bell said, the movie will tell a high-concept story set in one of the world’s most magical cities.

“It’s about a slightly cynical girl who has no interest in finding love and works as a curator at the Guggenheim in New York City. Her sister gets married in Rome and she, after one glass of wine and meeting a groomsman (Duhamel) she has a chemistry spark with, says, ‘You know what? I’m just going to go for it and ask him out.’ Then there’s that movie mystery where he seems to be kissing someone else but really isn’t, and while she’s wallowing she grabs these seven coins out of the [Trevi] Fountain in Rome, and unintentionally puts them in her pocket.”

In real life, Rome’s largest fountain is 250 years old, collects approximately $4,700 a day, and supposedly ensures marriage to anyone who throws coins into it. “Rome” will play off that local legend.

“Throughout the course of the movie, those seven people who threw [those coins] in there, wishing for various things, start stalking [my character] and fall in love with her,” laughed Bell, who’ll be making her first trip to Rome for the shoot. “There is a fantasy and magical element to it, and she doesn’t understand why all these people keep showing up with flowers. They’re outside her door, they’re starting to stalk her, and she doesn’t get it. Finally, when the male lead starts to pursue her, she feels as though it’s just because of this curse.”

“It’s by Mark Steven Johnson, who wrote and directed it. He did ‘Grumpy Old Men,’ ‘Simon Birch’ and ‘Ghost Rider,’ ” Bell said excitedly about the film, which will likely hit theaters in 2009. “I’m so excited to be working with Mark Steven Johnson, I can’t even tell you. I respect his body of work so much.”

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Kristin Bell came to the rescue of a dog hauled from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina.

The Heroes star couldn’t resist taking in the pooch after the pair was introduced – even though she already had two dogs in her care.

But Bell admits the dog has a few bad habits: “She’s an 11-year-old black Labrador with no teeth, one ear and she breathes like Darth Vader.

“And she eats random objects. She has eaten a carton of cigarettes; a pack of cards. She once knocked a jar of salsa over and ate the salsa and the broken glass.”

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