Louis Theroux is an award-winning journalist and documentary film-maker whose programmes are shown all over the world. After landing a job as a presenter on Michael Moore's TV Nation, he was given his own series on the BBC, Weird Weekends with Louis Theroux, which first aired in 1998. His feature-length documentary, My Scientology Movie, was released in 2016. He has been awarded three BAFTAs and a Royal Television Society Television Award for his work. His first autobiography, Gotta Get Theroux This, was published in 2019 and was a Sunday Times bestseller. In 2020 he created a hit podcast called Grounded. Theroux The Keyhole is his latest autobiography.
He just has a sincere desire to understand people * The Independent * Even against the horrific backdrop of Covid, [this] book is all the more charming, and blackly amusing, for it. * Belfast Telegraph (Review) *