The Seven Sins of Dom Joly |
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Dom Joly is a multi-award-winning television comedian. His first TV series, Trigger Happy TV, was a primetime Friday night smash hit for four years running on Channel 4, from 2000 - 2004. It went on to be sold in over seventy countries worldwide and win several awards including the Silver Rose of Montreux.
Since then Dom has made TV shows for the BBC, Five and Sky One, including BBC1’s World Shut Your Mouth and the acclaimed travel series Dom Joly’s Happy Hour. In early 2010 Dom filmed a documentary on Tintin for Channel 4, entitled Dom Joly and The Black Island.
In 2010 Dom appeared on the hit ITV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and in the following year toured a one-man show throughout the UK recounting tales of his life in the broadcasting world. 2012 saw Dom return to playing pranks on unsuspecting members of the public with his primetime Saturday Night ITV show- Fool Britannia.
Alongside his broadcast work, Dom is a columnist for the Independent and the Independent on Sunday, as well as an award-winning travel writer for the Sunday Times and Mail On Sunday. |
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Before Trigger Happy TV, Dom started his working career as a diplomat for the EU in Prague and a Producer for ITN at Westminster!
Also an author, his first travel book, The Dark Tourist – in which he went to North Korea, Iran, Chernobyl, Lebanon and Cambodia – published by Simon and Schuster in 2010, was a huge success. He wrote another travel book- Scary Monsters and Super Creeps in which he traversed the globe monster hunting. His latest book- Here Comes the Clown, a stumble through the show business has just been published.
Dom has starred in adverts for 888 Poker, Stena Ferries and British Airways. He has directed campaigns for Marmite, Barclays, Tango, Comet and Cadburys Twisted, as well as music videos for Ian Brown and Wig-Wam (Alex James from Blur and Betty Boo).
His latest ad, that he directed and starred in for the NHS, made the front pages of Campaign, The Drum and PR Week.
Dom lives in the Cotswolds with his Canadian wife and two kids. In his spare time he is a devout ‘gamer’, a keen scuba diver, a golfer and a political anorak. He owns and flies a hot-air balloon. |
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Wrath - What makes you angry about the hospitality industry?
Being made to pay for wi-fi, no plugs by the bed, excessive amounts of unnecessary cushions on bed, indecipherable heating and TV controls, small dressing gowns, tipping, tiny glasses at breakfast, the cost of breakfast, the waiter who tries to talk to me at breakfast.
Greed - If all your food fantasies came true what would be on your Plate?
The entire menu of Maroush, London's best Lebanese restaurant. It would take me a week, but I could do it...
Sloth - What do you do to unwind?
I fly my hot-air balloon and shout stuff at ramblers.
Pride - What are you most proud of?
My book, The Dark Tourist and my pig, Wilbur who has learned to open doors.
Lust - Is there anything that you are still lusting to achieve?
Happiness, silly wealth, turn on the Cheltenham Xmas lights.
Envy - who are you most envious of?
Thin people.
Gluttony - have you ever over indulged?
See above, my entire life is an over-indulgence .
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We put the spotlight on the industry's most recognisable faces in our new interview segment "Seven Sins". If you want to know what inspires the industry's movers and shakers or what your favourite food loving celebrity likes to indulge in then you'll find it in their Seven Sins. |
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