Louis Theroux Appreciationists!

Louis Sebastian Theroux and was born in Singapore in 1970. But his family settled down in a big, rambling, dilapidated house in Wandsworth, South London. He attended Westminster School and then gained a First Class Degree in History at Oxford University.After graduating he didn’t have a job lined up in England and felt that at least by being in America he was broadening my mind. He did menial work to make money and spent two months with a glass blower who made unbelievably tasteless gilded cherub goblets.Later, he found a job on a local paper in the sprawling city of San Jose, a town where nothing ever happens and a year later went to work for the New York-based satirical magazine, Spy, where when he asked some rappers to freestyle on gun safety, one of them threatened to beat him up.As a correspondent for Michael Moore’s 1995 series, TV Nation, he anchored sixteen segments. His first assignment was on The Klu Klux Klan who were trying desperately hard to repackage themselves and make themselves seem cuddly and nice, but inevitably they left out racist stickers or hate filled T-shirts. It was quite an eye opener.In 1995, he developed my own WEIRD WEEKENDS and produced a critically acclaimed documentary series premiere. WEIRD WEEKENDS sets out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. "It’s almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I don’t have to play up that stuff. I’m not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd."He has just had a new book releasedTHIS PAGE IS NOT RUN BY LOUIS! IT IS A FANSITE!