Giles Coren

Giles Coren (born 1969 in Paddington, London) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Coren is the son of the British writer and humorist Alan Coren, and the brother of journalist Victoria Coren. He was educated at Westminster School before going on to Keble College, Oxford, where he achieved a first in English.

[edit] Career

Coren is host of "Movie Lounge" on Britain's Channel 5, and restaurant critic for the British newspaper The Times, winning the title "Food And Drink Writer of the Year" in 2005.
He also contributes an irregular and irreverent column to The Times, ranging from curious events in his personal life to political satire. Under the pseudonym Professor Gideon Garter he writes The Intellectual's Guide to Fashion in The Sunday Times, satirizing the pretensions of modern critical theory and cultural commentary. [1]
Coren was the ghostwriter for the autobiography of James Dyson, inventor of the famous vacuum cleaner.
Coren has been known to write unorthodox reviews: 'Food: 0; Just bloody being there: 7'. When asked. 'In your opinion, who is the most influential chef of our time?', Coren replied, 'Ronald McDonald, the poisonous criminal bastard.'
In the autumn of 2005, Coren appeared as a regular correspondent on Gordon Ramsay's The F-Word.
In 2005, Coren's first novel Winkler won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the worst description of sex. The passage he was awarded for ended with the sentence fragment "like Zorro"; this reference has gained a cult status as an internet meme. [2]
On the 6th of June, 2006, he presented a programme on the digital channel More4, entitled Tax the Fat, a semi-serious look at the cost of clinical obesity and the cost it presents to the NHS.