Richard Osman is known as the creator, and co-host of BBC’s Pointless, which he joined since 2009, and now it is time for him to depart the show after 12 years.
Richard is known as 51-year-old, who co-hosted the show with Alexander Armstrong and has appeared in over 1,300 episodes.
Richard, however, announced on April 8 that he would be leaving the quiz show to focus on his writing in a post on his Twitter account, which follows the success of The Thursday Murder Club, his popular crime fiction novel.
Richard stated in a statement that he was stepping down from the show owing to his hectic schedule and to devote more time to writing, that he has to balance his television responsibilities with his successful murder fiction series, The Thursday Murder Club.
Osman will continue to appear on the Pointless celebrity spin-offs. Alexander Armstrong, his co-host, will remain on the show and will be joined by a number of special guests.
The guest presenters’ names will be revealed later this year, and Osman will not be replaced by a permanent new co-host. More than 1,300 episodes of the daytime quiz program have been filmed by Osman and Armstrong.
In addition to writing, Osman will continue to host his own BBC Two show, House of Games, which premiered in 2017.
Osman suffers from nystagmus, an eye ailment that severely limits his vision. He was born with it, and there is no way to get rid of it, and he had limited opportunity of reading the autocue while filming Have I Got News For You although he was only a few feet away. Moreover, he was also reported to have knee surgery in 2021.
Richard has co-author six novels and is known as the author of four novels. Osman is the author of three novels in the Thursday Murder Club series.
He published The Thursday Murder Club in 2020, and a year later, he followed it up with The Man Who Died Twice. The Bullet That Missed, the third book in the series, will be released on September 15, 2022.
He published The World Cup Of Everything in 2017, a quiz-style book that attempted to resolve popular controversies like which Christmas film is the best.
He also co-wrote five Pointless quiz books with Alexander Armstrong, his co-host on the show, and a House of Games quiz book with Alan Connor.
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