Russell Brand cuts quite a swathe with the ladies, which is pretty impressive considering he looks like Svengali’s dissolute emo grandson Chuck Svengali. But he seems to be serious, kind of, about Katy Perry, and he’s going all out to prove it for her birthday next Sunday. First, Brand shelled out £20,000—which is, I don’t know, something like eleventy million American micro-dollars—to give Katy a personal visit from a robot petting zoo. Katy saw the exhibit at the Where the Wild Things Are premiere, but uncharacteristically decided not to visit the robo-beasts because it would look too much like a photo op. That’s where Brand stepped in:

While she was looking at a goat being unloaded Russell got the contact details of the event organisers. He has arranged for the zoo to arrive at Katy’s Los Angeles home for her birthday.”

All right, that’s kind of sweet in a conspicuous-consumption kind of way. Considerably sweeter than the $1200 worth of sex toys Brand picked up to make Katy’s birthday particularly memorable. No word on whether the farm animals will also join in the festivities—but, really, this is the kind of situation for which the phrase “Get a room!” was invented.