Richard Osman may be one of the most recognisable faces on TV these days - but it turns out he's not the only famous member of his family.
The Pointless star and author has a rock star brother who is one of the founding members of one of the UK's most legendary Britpop bands, Suede.
Mat Osman is a bass guitarist who formed the Trash rockers with frontman Brett Anderson back in 1989.Their first album was the fastest selling in 10 years at its time of release, when it rocketed to the top of the UK charts.Along with the mighty Oasis, Blur and Pulp, the group were known as part of the 'Britpop big four'.Richard used to hear Mat, who is three years older than him, recording demos upstairs at their home when he was a teenager."I have always been a fan," Richard told The Douglas Anderson Show. "And then it broke for them very, very big in the early 90s, and it was amazing."Mat began doing music for shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Marriage Ref and You Have Been Watching when his band split in 2003.He returned to play with Suede when they got back together in 2010, but he has also moved into writing, like his younger brother, whose debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, became a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in September 2020.Mat's first book, The Ruins, was published in February 2020 and his second, The Ghost Theatre, was acquired by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2022.The musician was also the Londen editor of the email magazine le cool and has had his writing published in British magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer.The boys were raised by their single mum after their dad walked out when Richard was just nine-years-old."It was the worst thing that ever happened to me," he
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