Nature has played a cruel trick on me. Thanks to my alopecia barbae (“of the beard”) I can now only grow a weird little Hitler moustache. This is what I look like after three days not shaving. I have given up on my beard ever growing back to its luxuriant former glory but is too much to ask for it to ALL fall out instead of having a tiny remnant in a potentially offensive configuration? And now a bald patch has appeared on the back of my head making me wonder if my proper hair-hair might be next to go. In two years or less I may be bald! [sigh] Thankfully there’s always audio and in fact in two days I have a new podcast launching exclusively on Spotify (there’s the plug – no pun intended) – The Louis Theroux Podcast. So I suppose you can make me feel better, should you want to, by checking it out. Episode One with Shania Twain drops on Tuesday June 6.
Spaghetti alla norma! It’s a Jamie Oliver recipe. Aubergines, capers, garlic, fresh basil. Looks like shit but tastes amazing! While we’re on the subject, my policy with aubergines, AKA eggplants, is to cook the living snot out of them. Torture them without mercy. Make them your b***h. Who wants an undercooked aubergine? Not me! An OVERcooked one? Psych! There’s no such thing!!!
Oh jeez it looks like the alopecia has migrated up to my eyebrow. I realise you aren’t all awaiting every update on its progress but I want people to acclimatise to the new partially depilated me and not freak everyone out by suddenly appearing in public like a half-plucked elephant bird with no forewarning. So this is where we’re at. I’d really like to keep my eyebrows, but it’s out of my hands at this point… tho I have started taking vitamin d and something called biotin.
Don’t make me use this spoon on you! Sausage casserole – a Hairy Bikers recipe – adapted for what I had in the cupboard. Eg. I used rinsed baked beans instead of butter beans. 👨🍳
Don’t make me use this spoon on you! Sausage casserole – a Hairy Bikers recipe – adapted for what I had in the cupboard. Eg. I used rinsed baked beans instead of butter beans. 👨🍳
Such a pleasure having an in depth conversation with the amazing @ameliadimz. Ambition, parents, learning to deal with anxiety all discussed (and much else). Listen now on Spotify.
Bbc online recipe, chicken and chorizo tray bake blah blah blah it looks burnt but that’s how my wife likes it
Bbc online recipe, chicken and chorizo tray bake blah blah blah it looks burnt but that’s how my wife likes it
Bbc online recipe, chicken and chorizo tray bake blah blah blah it looks burnt but that’s how my wife likes it
@officiallouistheroux recounts the extraordinary (and 100% true 😉) series of events that led to the name of his podcast…
Seeing @nickcaveofficial and Kylie together on Top of the Pops was one of those surreal pairings – if we didn’t have the video evidence I might have started to believe I imagined it. In this clip, taken from our podcast chat, Nick recalls that time. Listen now on Spotify.
If this is “Louis Theroux having a happy birthday” then I’m not too worried about the robot take over just yet…
Winning your fight one minute, then meeting one of your idols the next. Who wants to see Aspinall meets Louis next? 😉 👀
NGL when I spoke to @tanfrance for my podcast I was NOT expecting him to reveal himself as a sometime practitioner of the pugilistic arts (that’s boxing, in plain English). Don’t mess with this man. You have been warned!
The Louis Theroux Podcast has now launched! The guests are fascinating. The conversations are fascinating. But don’t take my word for it… Listen now on Spotify.
Massive thanks to @jennettemccurdy for bringing blistering honesty as well as grace and good humour to our conversation on the podcast. Her book I’m Glad My Mom Died is a terrific read too. Listen now on @spotifyuk.
It was such a pleasure speaking to the amazingly talented @samanthamorton, of Minority Report, In America, The Walking Dead, The Whale, and many other films and shows… She grew up in care and knows the system inside out. NB the episode was recorded before the writers and actors strikes. Link in bio!
Coming up on The Louis Theroux Podcast! Writer, broadcaster, interviewer, Jiggle Jiggle enabler – her money definitely folds – it’s the amazing @ameliadimz!
It was such a pleasure talking to the legendary Shania Twain for my new @spotifyuk podcast. More than two hours of intimate, funny, insightful and moving conversation which we have painstakingly crafted into an interview that lasts a little over an hour. Thank you, Shania, for being so gracious and generous with your time. You’re still the one! That DOES impress me much! (I could keep going with song lyrics but I’ll stop there…)
Amazing conversation with @craigdavid. He’s swinging back to my side of the pendulum! Who would have thought?
*in the waiting room for a special guest* 👀 The Louis Theroux Podcast, coming exclusively to Spotify on June 6.
I loved my conversation with the disco, soul, and pop legend that is @nilerodgers formerly of Chic, Duran Duran, and Bowie’s Let’s Dance album . Put on your red shoes and listen to the whole interview on Spotify.
She’s still the one! The incredible @shaniatwain joins Louis for the inaugural episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast. Coming next Tuesday June 6.
Guess who I asked onto The Louis Theroux Podcast: @craigdavid ! Did he decline? No! Didn’t he mind? I don’t think so! Was it for real? Damn sure! What was the deal? That I would ask him questions about his life and work and he would do his best to answer them, basically.
