Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. He was President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas term, 1969, and edited the university magazine Isis. In the 1970s Brandreth hosted the ITV children’s show Puzzle Party. He has appeared on Countdown more than 300 times, including Carol Vorderman’s final episode in 2008. He is the host of the Radio 4 comedy panel show Wordaholics.
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Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former Conservative Member of Parliament. He was President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas term, 1969, and edited the university magazine Isis. In the 1970s Brandreth hosted the ITV children’s show Puzzle Party. He has appeared on Countdown more than 300 times, in Dictionary Corner, including Carol Vorderman’s final episode in 2008, making more appearances than any other guest. He is the host of the Radio 4 comedy panel show Wordaholics, first aired on 20 February 2012. In 2019, Brandreth appeared on series 1 of Celebrity Gogglebox alongside Sheila Hancock. In 2017 he began co-hosting a podcast titled Something Rhymes With Purple alongside friend Susie Dent. In 2018 he donated a button that was once owned by a famous actor to the Museum of Curiosity, to which he donated it in April 2019. He wrote an authorised biography of actor John Gielgud, as well as lip-graphic works of Shakespeare, including Dear Ladies, Bracket and Bracket Zippings.
He also wrote a book about Scrabble, words, puzzles and jokes, for children and co-founded the Games & Puzzles magazine. His great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, was the inventor of a medicine called Brandreth’s Pills. In 2010 he broadcast a Radio 4 documentary about his great-grandmother, BenjaminBrandreth, the inventor of the medicine calledBrandreth’sPills. He appeared on Room 101 in 2005, while Paul Merton was host, successfully banishing the Royal Variety Performance and the British honours system into Room 101, saying that he would never accept an honour himself. In 2013 he clarified that position, stating that he had no fundamental objection to the honour system, and that he selected the Honours system for Room 101 because he could tell funny stories about it.
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