Even though they took it slow, their relationship had moved quite fast. They moved in together within six months, in November 2015, and got a puppy as well.
Brand's wife realized she was pregnant by Valentine's Day, 2016. Russell was ecstatic to know about his family getting bigger.
"He really wanted to become a father," she said during the podcast mentioned above.
By the end of June that year, they were engaged but decided to keep the affair lowkey.
Then, on November 6, 2016, news broke that they had expanded their family after their daughter, Mabel, was born.
He had told the audience at one of his stand-up shows that he had to rush home because Laura had just had a baby.
About a year later, on August 26, 2017, they married in Henley-on-Thames. The wedding, too, was kept lowkey with only close friends and family in attendance.
In July 2018, the couple expanded their family once again with their second kid, daughter Peggy.
He now lives a changed, more "zen" life in his £3.3 million home in Henley, Oxfordshire.
