News about Richard Osman

The 34-year-old's darkly comic drama is based on his real life experiences of being stalked by a woman he felt sorry for after meeting her in a London pub where he pulled pints - after being sexually abused by a top figure in the comedy world. Gadd says in a new interview that he struggled to have his concerns about the woman, named Martha in the show, taken seriously by police because, he says, the idea of a man being stalked by a female admirer can be 'trivialised'. But while 14 million people have pored over every detail of the show, Gadd's parents in his native Fife are not among them - as the comedian has banned them from watching it and pays for their Netflix, so will know if they do.

Cops were called on comedian Baptiste, 42, over the threatening Instagram post about an unnamed Jewish woman who he claimed to be 'stalking' his family online. Baptiste - who previously hosted Live at the Apollo - posted: 'I want you to sit down with your husband and kids and imagine what their lives will be without you, b/c north London is a quick trip to make and a Think Tank will have to be an actual tank to keep you safe from me.'

It is relatively low-budget and was launched with minimum fanfare and very little promotion, but in just three weeks Baby Reindeer has become one of the most talked-about TV sensations of the year. The Netflix drama about a struggling comedian targeted by an obsessed and deranged female stalker has notched up almost 14 million viewers in the UK alone and is the number one show globally. Part of the fascination, it seems, is the fact it's billed as 'a captivating true story'. What's more, the lead actor and scriptwriter Richard Gadd is the person it happened to. All this has created something of an online frenzy among armchair sleuths desperate to identify the real-life characters, locations and events. Here we try to separate what in the show is fact, what may have been embellished, and what is pure fiction...

In 2021, G T Karber was living in Los Angeles, working as a screenwriter and maths tutor and, on this occasion, procrastinating. He was in a café and doodled an idea for a logic puzzle on the back of a napkin.

Richard Osman has revealed that the film adaptation of his book The Thursday Murder Club will star Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley. The TV presenter, 53, announced the incredible cast on the latest episode of his podcast, The Rest is Entertainment with Marina Hyde, adding that filming is set to begin in June. Dame Helen, 78, will be playing Elizabeth Best, Sir Ben, 80, is portraying Ibrahim Arif and Pierce, 70, will taken on the role of Ron Ritchie.

The TV presenter confessed he has struggled with overeating ever since he was about nine years old when his father left the family home.  He admitted the addiction has been 'absolutely ever-present' in his life as he explained: 'By and large, addiction is running away from your pain.'

Prince Harry has already made £22million ($27million) from his book Spare despite it only being out in hardback, fellow bestselling author Richard Osman has claimed. The Duke of Sussex 's controversial memoir became the UK's fastest-selling non-fiction book ever after being published by Penguin Random House in January 2023. Harry was understood to have clinched a £16million ($20million) advance as part of a £32million ($40million) four-book deal in June 2021 following a bidding war. The 39-year-old royal's headline-grabbing book saw him accuse his brother Prince William of pushing him into a dog bowl in a row over his wife Meghan Markle . It also claimed William teased Harry about his panic attacks, that King Charles put his own interests above his second son and saw Harry reference taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms and his enjoyment of the TV show Friends. Now, Osman - author of hit crime novels including The Thursday Murder Club - has used his publishing industry knowledge to estimate Harry's income from the book., according to fellow b

The bloodbath's body count is similar to a Line Of Duty-style murder spree, with the BBC aiming to cut 100 hours of television shows this year. Not one genre has been left out, with the axe sweeping everything from drama to quiz shows to comedy. In the face of rising inflation and a two-year freeze to the cost of a TV licence, which provides the majority of the BBC's funding, the BBC is hoping to make £500 million in savings, making some of the BBC's more recent ruthless decisions.

I haven't worn anything in bed since I was about 16.' Being naked and having clean sheets around you is so luxurious and liberating.

Football Focus is the only one on Saturday that will be exclusively directed by a woman out of 17 programmes on BBC One and ITV1. Alex Scott, 39, an ex-footballer, hosts Football Focus on BBC One at midday on a Saturday. Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh (top left), Tipping Point with Ben Shephard (top center), Michael Mcintyre's The Wheel (bottom left), and Match of the Day hosted by Gary Lineker (bottom right).

Close to nine in ten adults in the United Kingdom shop at Amazon. You can buy everything from balloons to screws to sofas, to mattresses. Despite the fact that millions of people use it out of convenience and the hope it gives bargains, a Money Mail investigation has discovered that it does not always have the highest rates.

GUY ADAMS: Seven young men blasted their way into Riccado, a family-owned men's fashion store in Chiswick's wealthy West London suburb. Each wore a black, hooded top, and had to conceal his face with a scarf or surgical mask. Having gained access to the store, they swaggered to the back of the store and began aggressively pulling high-end puffer jackets off a clothing rack.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: He was just 41 when he announced his resignation after amassing an estimated £450 million. Since then, the 'Wizard of Oz', as Australian hedge fund whizz-kid Greg Coffey (left) has purchased an £83 million American estate in the Hamptons and the 12,000-acre Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura. However, Coffey is now at loggerheads with the jeweller, who lives in one of London's grandest squares, where another flat sold for just over £12 million eight months ago. Dorrit Moussaieff (right), 74, has become so flooded by water that she sloshes down from Coffey's apartment that she's shared a snapshot showing where ceiling panels have crashed to the ground, according to a photograph shared on social media. Moussaieff tells me, 'It has impacted me horribly.' Flooding has occurred repeatedly.' Water damage has now been excluded from the building.'

Lord Dobbs, a writer who wrote House of Cards, admitted to delivering the book to the King and Queen on a whim, but in a 'unexpected' but 'wonderful' twist, it was revealed on the Queen's book club website a few weeks later. At the State Opening of Parliament, Camilla attended firsthand as the thriller explores themes of love and devotion.

Richard Osman has predicted that a number of shows would be cut this year. The corporation will have to change how they work as a result of the lack of funds that they didn't have before, according to television presenter and producer Pointless, 53, who is the show's producer and former co-presenter. In addition to being a host of Two Tribes and Richard Osman's House of Games, and a comedy panel show Insert Name Here, Broadcaster Richard Osman's House of Games.

Figures from The Bookseller have ranked the top 20 best-selling books in the United Kingdom in 2023, including hardback and paperback, and the Duke's memoir tops the list. Two entries from Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die, and The Bullet That Missed, as well as a Bored of Lunch cookbook and Bonnie Garmus' Lessons in Chemistry are among the top five books from last year. Colleen Hoover and Taylor Jenkins Reid's entries also appear in the top 20.

Naga Munchetty has been asked by fans to host Have I Got News For You as the permanent host of Have I Got News For You. The BBC Breakfast host, 48, appeared on Friday's special edition of the show, joined by panelists Ian Hislop and Paul Merton, and guest panellists Maisie Adam and Richard Osman. Fans were left hysterics as she made an X-rated quip and displayed her risqué humour as she hoped to benefit from her appearance on a post-watershed display.

Naga Munchetty, the current BBC Breakfast presenter, stunned viewers with an X-rated quip while hosting Have I Got News For You on Friday. Maisie Adam and Richard Osman, guest panelists, appeared on the show host for the latest episode. Naga said that four photographs will be shown, and teams will have to guess which one will not fit as she kicked off the show's Odd One Outround round.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Hundreds of nefarious remarks have been posted on Chalamet's Instagram page - where he is viewed by 18.4 million viewers since the SNL sketch was shown. Hundreds of people say, 'Boycott Wonka.' Others accuse the actor of'supporting genocide' and displaying 'white privilege.' Many people have said that they will never watch a film starring Chalamet and that they are no longer devoted followers. 'Free Palestine' is a Palestinian flag or the word used to describe it.'

Richard Osman, a 52-year-old game show host, tells Tom Parker Bowles about the Nando's takeaways that fuelled Pointless's production and that he's still a 70s boy at heart.

Richard Osman has been battling the nation to incorrectly answer trivia questions on BBC quiz show Pointless for more than a decade. Ambitious Osman, 52, is also a writer, comedian, and an excellent novelist whose bestselling crime-fiction book The Thursday Member Club saw Jaws and E.T. director Steven Spielberg purchase the film rights to the book in 2021. The quiz show host recently revealed an uncomfortable encounter with late singer David Bowie at a festival, in which he confessed to being 'thrown out' of the singer's personal toilet backstage. "Please, please leave Mr Bowie's toilet," Osman explained as he approached the plush toilet inside. With a plethora of A-List encounters and connections accumulated in his almost 20-year career span, it comes as no surprise that the presenter's own sibling is also well established in the industry - but who is Richard's rock star brother?

The Quiz show host, Robert Bowie, has talked about the awkward night he had backstage with David Bowie at one of his shows. Richard Osman spoke with Hits Radio Breakfast hosts Fleur East and co-host James and Matt about his bizarre encounter with the pop star on a Saturday. The Pointless actress revealed that his second time meeting the icon was when he was told to leave David's toilet that he had mistakenly mistaken for a public cubical.

Richard Osman, 52, says he was refused by MI6 during his undergraduate days at Cambridge University to become a spy, but doubts that he would have been 'terrible' in the role. I'm too tall, not bright enough, and if I have a mystery, I tell everybody.' You could not find a more espion in the United States. I can't tell a lie.' Osman, who is best known for his appearances on BBC shows Pointless and Richard Osman's House Of Games, is also the author of several crime novels, including The Thursday Murder Club, which portrays an ex-spy turned detective.

It will be a match between Chelsea and Luton Town, which will mark the union of two polar opposites. The supreme spenders, the powder keg of a club that demands success year after year, are inevitably poisoned by ambition's tyranny of aspiration. On the other hand, the Premier League's new upstarts, the upswingers in a permanent dream-state, are the club that intends to defy all the odds as the unfancied have.