House of Games host Richard Osman's has a rockstar brother in chart-topping Britpop band
26.07.2023 - 20:13
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Richard Osman is best known for presenting quiz shows Pointless and House of Games on the BBC, but the TV personality isn't the only famous face in his family.
Mat Osman, Richard's older brother, is a founding member of one of the biggest Britpop bands in history - Suede - and has followed in his sibling's footsteps becoming an author. The 55-year-old rockstar topped the charts with Suede in the nineties battling it out with Britpop legends Oasis, Blur, and Pulp at the time.
The rock band was formed in 1989 but bass guitarist Mat and singer Brett Anderson are the only founding members of the band still involved today.
Suede split for the first time in 2003, so Mat went on to write music for TV shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Marriage Ref and You Have Been Watching before the group reformed in 2010.
Richard previously spoke about hearing his big brother record demos at their home when they were teenagers and gushed over him as a proud sibling. He told The Douglas Anderson Show: "I have always been a fan. And then it broke for them very, very big in the early 90s, and it was amazing."
Richard has found success both on and off-screen as his debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, beame a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in September 2020. Following in his brother's footsteps, Mat published his first book, The Ruins, in February 2020 and his second, The Ghost Theatre, was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2022.
Speaking of finding inspiration for writing while travelling with Suede, Mat told The Guardian: “Touring is absolutely brilliant for writing. People always say: ‘How do you find the time to do both?’ But I don’t start work until nine at night – the rest of the day I’m sitting in the hotel or in places like this.