Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

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In his review, which he shared on Instagram, he wrote that the book gets a “thumbs up” and that he “loved writing it. Reading this book satisfies that thirst and is reassuring that he is pretty much what you would expect him to be. He dabbled with cannabis at 17 [48] and later said that, while he acknowledges that cannabis is an intoxicant and can trigger certain mental health issues, he supports its legalisation.

Publishing director Ingrid Connell acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Robert Caskie at Robert Caskie Ltd.

He went from primary school to Tower House School in East Sheen in 1979 or 1980 and then to Westminster School, a public school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. In Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey from his anxiety-prone childhood to his unexpectedly successful career. Theroux the Keyhole is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in Covid world.

It’s a light look at a heavy subject: the experience of the pandemic, and lockdown, and other forms of vitality, as they left their mark on a family of five in north west London in 2020/21,” Theroux wrote. Theroux also talks about his podcast Grounded and his documentary with the Tiger King himself, Joe Exotic. A five-year-old happily spamming out videos on his own new TikTok account while on holiday with his oblivious family.It's much better to print them at the appropriate points in the text rather than having a section of glossy photos in the middle of the book (as there are usually spoilers for the second half). As someone who bizarrely discovered Louis through his Podcast series I hadn’t much watched his documentaries. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. His documentary method subtly exposes the contradictions or farcical elements of his subjects' seriously held beliefs.

Nervously accepting the BBC’s offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in the weird worlds of paranoid US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, get under the skin of celebrities like Max Clifford and Chris Eubank and tackle gang culture in San Quentin prison, all the time wondering whether the same qualities that make him good at documentaries might also make him bad at life.He also wrote that the original diary was “150,000 words or more,” but he condensed it and “shaped it” so the manuscript is at around “80,000 or so” words. I personally don't feel the closure I was hoping for but sympathise with Louis that he no longer feels the need to go over it again and again. His episode about British entertainer Jimmy Savile, entitled When Louis Met Jimmy, [20] was voted one of the top documentaries of all time in a 2005 survey by Britain's Channel 4. In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore’s TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects.