What do you think of the campaign to free him from prison? He is best known for his work The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). Louis Theroux is the sort of man who makes you feel embarrassed of your own social skills. Louis Sebastian Theroux is a British documentary filmmaker, broadcaster and writer, best known for Louis Therouxâs Weird Weekends, When Louis Metâ¦, and other BBC Two TV specials. You’ve just got to go with the flow and accept that not everyone is going to like what you do, and especially on a really divisive subject, clearly not everyone is going to agree with what you do. I'm just", "Therouxly, madly, deeply: Jennifer Aniston engaged to Justin Theroux, member of London's premier literary family", "A worldly education Paul Theroux imagines a much-traveled writer's active erotic life", "Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic, "Forget Christmas TV: Adam and Joe's 20th anniversary reunion podcast is the best present you'll get in 2016", "Louis Theroux explains why he's so stoic in his documentaries", "Louis Theroux: 'You get to inhabit quite an intimate space, "Louis Theroux to make new Jimmy Savile film", Kevin Young, "Theroux promises to raise stakes", "My Scientology Movie: Louis Theroux's exposé is the most damning yet", "Exeter v Magdalen, Oxford, Christmas 2015, University Challenge - BBC Two", "Last Night's TV: Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists", "Louis Theroux: I hope Jennifer Aniston marries my cousin Justin Theroux", "Louis Theroux: 'For all his awfulness, I admire Trump's shamelessness, "Louis Theroux: 'My greatest achievement ? It says: “Louis Theroux would like to join”. Activate HELLO!
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He responded, "Because I don't believe in God.
Louis Theroux is not a vegan. For me, it’s more enjoyable because I don’t feel like we’re asking something cheeky of our guests. “It’s all about this process of making sure your contributors are OK, while also knowing that if you’re tiptoeing around everything, you may not end up with a particularly revealing documentary” – Louis Theroux. In the Weird Weekends episode "Infomercials", he was featured as a live salesman for an at-home paper shredder for the Home Shopping Network.
Louis Theroux is best known for his investigative documentaries and his interviews with some of the world's most dangerous and interesting people are always fascinating. He started his career as a journalist in America. Go on Louis’ Instagram and under numerous images of disappointing vegetarian lasagnas, women comment “love you, Louis’’ alongside reams of emoji hearts.
Though he’s revisiting the subjects he couldn’t get for When Louis Met…, Theroux describes Grounded as “a whole different proposition”. 'Louis' Culinary Disappointments'". He is known for presenting a series of documentaries for Unreported Worlds as well as the Channel 4 climate change documentary The End Of The World As We Know It. I find it enormously stressful when I’ve said I’m going to do something, or when someone’s made it clear to me that they need me to do something, and then something else blows up that derails the whole schedule. They are available to view, along with a variety of his other documentaries, on the BBC iPlayer. At the time when I was doing the programme, they caused a big splash.
Theroux has been working on a new hard-hitting documentary, Dark States â Heroin Town, which aired on BBC Two in October 2017, in which he visits a town in West Virginia that has a âfatal overdose rate 13 times the national average.â It is one of a series of three films about the âuniquely devastating challengesâ prevalent in America, focusing on the use of prescription painkillers in the US. A lot of trouble for something that…” Louis Theroux spends time in one of the most notorious sections of Miami County Jail: the fifth and sixth floor of 'Main Jail', where many of the most volatile inmates are incarcerated. [9] His cousin, Justin, is an actor and screenwriter. Also, the presenter fronted the recent documentary Surviving America's Most Hated Family, which looks at the Westboro Baptist Church. Vegetarian lasagne, uses cottage cheese, plus random veg. Seconds later and the documentarian materialises, full screen, and wearing a grey sweatshirt that reads, ‘gotta get Theroux this’. Like this story? Theroux made a documentary called Louis, Martin & Michael about his quest to get an interview with Michael Jackson.
So, there are not enough hours in the day really to get everything done. Have you had any particular disasters or achievements? As for the kitchenware that he uses, Louis and wife Nancy have a combination of black and glass trays and dishes and black serving spoons. And while we'd love nothing more than to see Louis manning his own cooking show, launching a full-time food blog or bringing out his own supermarket range, even he admits there's some work to do first. I think I accept that I’m there for work, and they accept that I’m there for work – not to say there isn’t a great deal of mutual curiosity and affection at times, but in the end, I recognise that there’s a professional role that I fill and that I’m there to do the job. Last updated 11:53 AM, Friday February 21 2020 GMT. The filmmaker also premiered his first feature-length documentary, My Scientology Movie, in 2016. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. He later read Modern History at Oxford University before working as a journalist in the United States, and later for the BBC. Included in this collection were his famous scenes with Jimmy Savile and Max Clifford. Louis Theroux will go head to head against other celebrities in the Great British Bake Off's Stand Up To Cancer special, and we're sharing a look at the home kitchen he shares with his family. Information and Support If you or someone you know have been affected by the issues raised in Louis' films, there are groups that can help. Theroux was married to Susanna Kleeman between 1998 and 2001. Louis Theroux: I have three children, well, my wife and I do, so we have no shortage of things to keep us busy.
For those that don't know, the documentarian lives with his wife Nancy - to whom he has been married since 2012 - and their three sons. He lives in London with his wife Nancy Strang and three children: Albert, 14, Frederick 11, and Walter, four, and their kitchen features dark grey stainless steel cupboard doors, white walls and rustic wooden floors with wide panels. In 1992, he was hired as a writer for Spy magazine. Both narratives, to me, have surface plausibility – both of them seem to me to be reasonable positions. I’m sitting in my living room when a little pop-up appears beneath a livestream of my face. "[26], While filming a 2011 BBC programme, Theroux was asked "Why pose a difference between religion and ethics?" We never really considered ourselves married in the full sense â there were no wedding photos or anything like that. His My Scientology Movie was originally released in October 2016 and involved actors replaying some incidents people claim they experienced as members of the secretive organisation. Theroux is the nephew of novelist Alexander Theroux and writer Peter Theroux. The film premiered at the London Film Festival in 2015 and was released in cinemas in the UK on 7 October 2016.[22]. Here's what you need to know.. Louis Theroux is an English documentary maker and presenter and a household name thanks to his diverse BBC series. The last couple of days, I’ve exchanged emails with a couple of people who were in documentaries that I did five, ten years ago, so maybe I’m not detached. He did, however, make a two-part series of documentaries about autism and dementia, Extreme Love (2012), and said of them: âFor me, making these films has been an adventure, a revelation, occasionally a strain, more often a pleasure. Theroux moved with his family to England at the age of one, and was brought up in London. Paul Edward Theroux is Louisâ father. There’s a lot of anxiety associated with everything that’s going on, and the feeling of impotence in not quite knowing what you can do; so I get excessive nervous energy, but I can deal with that by cooking. I didn't have vegetable stock so I found some old dried mushrooms and soaked them and used the juice (and the mushrooms). Louis Theroux is trying his hand at cooking (Credit: Channel 4) Part of the charm of Louis' food snaps is the honest approach he takes. It looks as though there is also a serving hatch from the kitchen to the dining room, as seen in a selfie of Louis and his sticky shiitake mushroom creation. In the film Theroux tries to gain access to the church with limited success, even becoming a target for the churchâs âsquirrelsâ, a group of ruthless devotees with cameras who stalk people who dare speak out against the doctrines of the Church of Scientology. I think that Tiger King was enormously entertaining, and I enjoyed it a lot, but I could also recognise that was not a good place for tigers. Louis Theroux: I think the main thing is exercise; I talked to Gail Porter about it, and Boy George seemed to be taking (lockdown) as an opportunity to have a more healthy diet. As a meat-eater and a participant in a food supply chain that involves practises that are too hideous to bear thinking about (e.g. alerts and find out about everything before anyone else. [2] His older brother, Marcel, is a writer and television presenter. He clearly explained his stance in a 2015 Facebook post: ‘Though I am a non-hunter, I try not to be censorious about …