Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End. A prolific broadcaster in programmes ranging from Just a Minute and Wordaholics to The One Show, QI and Have I Got News for You, Gyles Brandreth is a favoured contributor for reality and factual entertainment programmes. He has featured on the celebrity edition of the BAFTA winning Gogglebox.
Gyles is also an acclaimed interviewer (principally for the Sunday Telegraph), a novelist, children’s author and biographer, he has published two volumes of diaries Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries and Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime.
He is the author of two acclaimed royal biographies and a series of Victorian detective stories, The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries, now published in twenty-two countries around the world. Gyles now is a regular contributor for The Telegraph and has a hit podcast alongside Countdown's Susie Dent named Something Rhymes with Purple which won Best Entertainment Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2020.
