How Pointless' Richard Osman went from humble upbringing to £1m author and TV heart-throb
Fame as an author will lift yet further his profile as an unlikely sex symbolHE is the creator and co-host of quiz show Pointless and the brains behind a host of other TV hits — but that is just the beginning of his talents.
“But the mums and grandmothers of Britain are the finest people we have so I’m very comfortable with that status.” Richard says: “I was writing it completely by myself. I hadn’t told anyone. I was thinking, like anyone who’s ever written anything, ‘This might be terrible — but if it’s no good, at least I wrote a book. I didn’t have any expectations.“I’m weirdly more excited that the Americans and the Germans and the French have bought it — because they don’t know who I am.
He and his brother — who later became the bassist with Nineties indie rockers Suede — moved to Haywards Heath in West Sussex but life was still a struggle.
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