Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is an English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former Conservative Member of Parliament.

Brandreth was born in Wuppertal, Germany, where his father, Charles Brandreth, was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission. After having moved to London with his parents at the age of three, Brandreth was educated at the Lyce Franais Charles de Gaulle , Bedales School, where he met his friend Simon Cadell, and New College, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1970 and edited the university magazine Isis. He was described in a contemporaneous publication as Oxfords Lord High Everything Else. Christopher Hitchens suggested that Brandreth set out to make himself into a Ken Tynan. Wore a cloak. He became a theatre producer, politician, journalist, author and publisher as well as, later, turning TV presenter.

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