Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

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Theroux is known for his numerous documentaries with the BBC, beginning with Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000), followed by When Louis Met. So, if you are fan of the documentaries, you may be interested in learning more about Louis and what makes him tick. Come round to Louis Theroux’s house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger .

Theroux's first marriage was to Susanna Kleeman from 1994 until they divorced in 2001; he later told Sathnam Sanghera of the Financial Times, "What happened was that my girlfriend was living with me in New York. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic.Nervously accepting the BBC’s offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in the weird worlds of paranoid US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, get under the skin of celebrities like Max Clifford and Chris Eubank and tackle gang culture in San Quentin prison, all the time wondering whether the same qualities that make him good at documentaries might also make him bad at life. This book is an honest, hilarious and ultimately heartwarming diary of the weirdness of family life in Covid World. Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger .

While the book doesn't pull scabs clean off, you can tell it has been unpleasant to revisit the ubiquitous behaviour through his own first hand experience which many people described as just being played by Savile. We never really considered ourselves married in the full sense – there were no wedding photos or anything like that. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the sense of performance being filmed inevitably brings. Forget Christmas TV: Adam and Joe's 20th anniversary reunion podcast is the best present you'll get in 2016". Therouxly, madly, deeply: Jennifer Aniston engaged to Justin Theroux, member of London's premier literary family".

In 2018, Theroux's Twitter account was hacked by cybersecurity firm Insinia as part of their attempt to highlight a longstanding security flaw in Twitter's system. It is fascinating to found out what he was thinking about while making the programmes and also to get an understanding of the process. I personally don't feel the closure I was hoping for but sympathise with Louis that he no longer feels the need to go over it again and again. In his review, which he shared on Instagram, he wrote that the book gets a “thumbs up” and that he “loved writing it. As part of the Weird Weekends episode "Porn", Theroux agreed to film a cameo in the 1997 gay pornography film Take a Peak.