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Introduction
Richard Osman is an English comedian, producer, television presenter, writer, and the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. He has also presented the BBC Two quiz shows Two Tribes and Richard Osman’s House of Games and has been a team captain on the comedy panel show Insert Name Here and The Fake News Show. He has gained recognition for his appearances on many British panel shows.
Osman worked at Hat Trick Productions alongside Ben Smith before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK, producing shows including Prize Island for ITV and Deal or No Deal for Channel 4. He is the writer of the 2020 novel The Thursday Murder Club.
Early life
| Name | Richard Osman |
| Net Worth | £2 million |
| Profession | Comedian, Presenter, Writer, Producer |
| Height | 1.83m |
| Age | 51 years |
Richard Thomas Osman was born on November 28, 1970 (age 51 years) in Billericay, Essex, United Kingdom. His parents are Brenda Wright and David Osman. He grew up in Cuckfield near Haywards Heath, West Sussex. His mother Brenda Osman is a teacher. When Osman was nine years old, his father David Osman walked out on the family, which Osman says has created difficulty for the rest of his life. His elder brother Mat Osman is a musician and a bass guitarist with the rock band Suede.
Osman attended Warden Park School in Cuckfield. Whilst still at school he gained his first broadcasting experience, as a regular contributor to Turn It Up, an open-access music show which went out on Sunday evenings on BBC Radio Sussex (the show was also notable for giving early broadcast experience to BBC news journalist Jane Hill and radio DJ Jo Whiley). From 1989 to 1992, he studied Politics and Sociology at Tr inity College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Pointless co-presenter Alexander Armstrong, who read English.
Osman was born with nystagmus, an eye condition that significantly reduces his vision. He learns his scripts by heart as his condition makes it difficult to read an autocue.
Career
Richard Osman began his career working as executive producer on British game shows, including Deal or No Deal, Channel 4 comedy panel game 8 out of 10 Cats and satirical comedy 10 O’Clock Live. He was the creative director at TV company Endemol UK, pitching the idea for Pointless to the BBC, becoming its co-presenter with his former university friend, Alexander Armstrong, when it launched in 2009.
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He created the short-lived 2013 ITV gameshow Prize Island. His other credits include Whose Line is it Anyway?, Total Wipeout and the game show 24 Hour Quiz. As a producer of Deal or No Deal, Osman was the one who revealed the identity of The Banker to be the show’s producer Glenn Hugill.
Osman acted as script editor for BBC One’s Total Wipeout and in 1999, created and wrote the Channel 4 sitcom Boyz Unlimited with David Walliams and Matt Lucas. In 2005, he co-created and co-wrote the animated Channel 4 sitcom Bromwell High. Osman left Endemol in 2020.
Presenting and Pointless
Since 2009, Richard Osman has co-presented the BBC One teatime quiz show Pointless with host Alexander Armstrong. He created the show where he is jokingly known as Armstrong’s “pointless friend”. Having previously worked exclusively in behind-the-camera roles, Osman got the job as co-presenter/assistant when he pitched the idea for the show to a panel of BBC daytime heads, taking the role of the assistant in the demonstration.
Osman guest-hosted Have I Got News for You in October 2013. In 2014, Osman began presenting a new BBC Two quiz show called Two Tribes. A second series began airing in February 2015. From October 2014, he guest-presented numerous episodes of The One Show. Beginning in 2016, he was a team captain on the BBC Two comedy panel show Insert Name Here, hosted by Sue Perkins. A second series was commissioned to begin airing in January 2017.
In February and December 2016, he presented Dragons’ Den: Pitches to Riches, two special episodes which looked back over the past thirteen series of Dragons’ Den on BBC Two. Since 2016, Osman has presented Child Genius on Channel 4.
He appeared on the telethon Red Nose Day 2017 with The World Cup of Biscuits 2017. This involved polling with Twitter to find the best British biscuit. In April 2017 he appeared in the first episode of the third series of Murder in Successville.
In 2017, Richard Osman began hosting his show Richard Osman’s House of Games. Each weekday, four panellists compete in general knowledge tests in a variety of entertaining games. Four series of the show have been made. In 2020, Osman created a spinoff show titled House of Games Night, which aired on BBC One on Friday nights.
Comedy
Osman has appeared multiple times on several panel shows; Would I Lie to You?, Have I Got News for You, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, The Unbelievable Truth, QI, and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
In 2016 he was a contestant on the second series of Taskmaster and appeared on the darts show Let’s Play Darts.
Viking Press, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, acquired the rights to Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, and one other novel, for a seven-figure sum in a 10-publisher auction in 2019. It was said that his first book would be published in autumn 2020, and the second the following year, as part of a classic crime series. His debut crime novel’s release date was announced as 3 September 2020.
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The Thursday Murder Club is set in a luxury retirement village in Kent where four residents gather to investigate criminal cases, including a “live” murder mystery. Osman said that he was “in talks” for a TV adaptation of his novel.
Osman confirmed that Steven Spielberg had acquired the book’s film rights. The book has sold well over one million copies in the UK and sold 45,000 UK hardback copies in the first three days after publication. Osman’s second crime novel, The Man Who Died Twice, was published in 2021. He has stated that this series will contain four novels.
Osman presented The Birthday Game podcast. Since 2021 he has featured in podcast adverts for premium ready meal brand Charlie Bigham’s.
Wife
Richard Osman was married to Sumudu Jayatilaka, his first wife Sumudu Jayatilaka is a jazz singer. Osman and his former partner Sumudu has two children, Ruby Osman and Sonny Osman. However, Richard Osman and his wife Sumudu Jayatilaka divorced in 2007. As of 2020, Osman resides in a bachelor pad in Chiswick, West London. He is a season ticket holder at Fulham F.C. On 6 December 2011, Osman became an “unlikely heartthrob” after winning Heat’s “Weirdest Crush Award”.
Richard Osman net worth
How much is Richard Osman worth? Richard Osman net worth is estimated at around £2 million. Her main source of income is from his career as a comedian, producer, television presenter, writer, and creator. Osman’s successful career has earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars. He is one of the influential comedians in the United Kingdom.