Giles Coren

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

Coren is the son of the late British writer and humourist 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.

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[edit] Career

  • He is credited by inventor James Dyson as the co-author of Dyson's autobiography, Against The Odds: An Autobiography, published in 1997.[1]
  • Despite several TV appearances, he is probably best known as the 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, the subject of which ranges from curious events in his personal life to political satire. Under the pseudonym Professor Gideon Garter he wrote The Intellectual's Guide to Fashion in The Sunday Times, satirizing the pretensions of modern critical theory and cultural commentary.[2]
  • In the autumn of 2005, Coren appeared as a regular correspondent on Gordon Ramsay's The F-Word.
  • On the 6 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.
  • He co-presented the Channel 4 series about genetically engineered livestock, Animal Pharm, with Dr. Olivia Judson in March 2007
  • Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spent a week on the diet of a wealthy Edwardian couple, for a BBC4 documentary shown in April 2007. Enormous amounts of offal, game, red meats and eggs were consumed from breakfast to late night snacks, in Edwardian Supersize Me.
  • In 2007, he appeared in a series of television advertisements advertising Birds Eye frozen foods. Critics, such as Ian Burrell in The Independent, suggested he had journalistically sold out, and ridiculed his decision.
  • Coren was reunited with Sue Perkins for a series based around period dietary habits broadcast from May 2008 on BBC Two, beginning with Supersizers Go... Wartime

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[edit] References

  1. ^ ISBN 0-75280-981-4 "...I was flattered when he agreed to collaborate on this book."
  2. ^ Giles Coren

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