Russell Kane has revealed the profound impact the government’s Right To Buy scheme had on him and his family.

The comedian, 50, joked that after his parents were afforded the opportunity to purchase their North London council house in the mid 1980s, he was left thinking they were ‘like the Kardashians’. 

He said becoming a home owner transformed his father’s confidence and ‘changed him psychologically’ leading to him adding a huge extension and 20ft kidney-shaped swimming pool for the family.

First introduced by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Right To Buy allows tenants to purchase their homes at a significant discount. However the scheme is not without controversy and has widely criticised for reducing social housing stock, fuelling the housing crisis.   

Russell said: ‘My dad never made money from the house in his lifetime. But the security of knowing how much it was worth changed him psychologically’. 

‘He became prouder of himself. And I went to school thinking we were the Kardashians. That confidence goes a long way, particularly in a young man. That, in my opinion, is why I made it to university, the first in my family to do so’.

Russell Kane has revealed the profound impact the government’s Right To Buy scheme had on him and his family

Recalling his dad’s home improvements, Russell said how plans for Doric-style pillars at the entrance were denied. 

He told The Sunday Times: ‘The council rejected them, saying they would “spoil the look of the road”. So my dad built square brick-built pillars instead and the house became known as “the castle” by our disgruntled neighbours’.

Russell went on to say that downsides of the scheme had come from governments not replenishing housing stock, resulting in the sad reality that social mobility was lower now than when he was a child.

The funnyman previously claimed that he had found the ‘elixir of youth’ — and said it made him ‘so permanently f****** horny’.

Candidly sharing details about his love life with Daily Mail, Russell admitted his libido is now ‘off the charts’ thanks to a cocktail of supplements he is taking.

He credited his rejuvenation on one in particular, a ‘biohacking’ pill which is the brainchild of his wife Lindsey.

Thanks to his obsession with maintaining the energy of a 21-year-old, to prolong his career and party in Ibiza three times a year, Russell had slowly accumulated bottles of questionable supplements in his bathroom cabinet. At one point, he was popping more than a dozen a day.

In 2021, Lindsey became so fed-up with the pair of them taking so many different pills that she decided to channel her energy into making Jolt, which Russell has branded an ‘elixir of youth potion’.

He said becoming a home owner transformed his father’s confidence, leading to him adding a huge extension and 20ft kidney-shaped swimming pool for the family 

However the scheme is not without controversy and has widely criticised for reducing social housing stock, fuelling the housing crisis (Thatcher pictured 1980) 

 The £1.99-a-day supplement, impressively backed by scientists, supposedly carries all of the same health benefits Russell got from the catalogue of bottles before.

Russell, who has been taking it for more than a year, claimed that Jolt has left him with more energy than he had two decades ago, shortly after he burst onto the comedy scene and dazzled audiences with his high-energy routine.

Discussing his journey with Daily Mail, he said: ‘It was 10-15 years ago that I started getting massive comedy success.

‘I was knackered and has less energy but was trying to live like I was 20.’

Trying to take his health more seriously, he first overhauled his diet and exercise habits to bring them in line with his mantra — ‘don’t eat s**t and move a bit’.

He also started reading self-help books and listening to podcasts in a bid to better manage his stress levels and sort out his sleep, as he was ‘rolling around in bed for nine hours and getting six hours of s*** sleep’.

It was only then that Russell ‘super-charged’ his approach by ‘bio-hacking’ — lifestyle tweaks that aim to make the body work more efficiently — through supplements.

‘He became prouder of himself. And I went to school thinking we were the Kardashians. That confidence goes a long way, particularly in a young man’ (Kardashian family pictured 2025) 

‘It was about keeping that rocket fuel energy that I had when I was 28/29 that the audiences were coming for,’ he said. 

‘I was like “how the f*** can I hang onto peak performance?” 

‘Footballers retire, sprinters retire, everyone retires, there’s no way I’m going to slow down or retire until I’m in a box. 

‘So the way to do that is bio-hack the natural biology to slow down the ageing and to charge the mitochondria of the cell up. And that’s what I’m about, just keeping those cells fully re-charged.’