Biography

Gok is a multi award winning UK Television Presenter:

• RTS (Royal Television Society) – Best Lifestyle Programme
• TV Choice Awards – Best Factual Entertainment Award
• Glamour Awards – Best Celebrity Male
• British Hairdressing Awards – Media Award

Thanks to the overwhelming success of his Channel 4 series, How To Look Good Naked, acclaimed fashion stylist and on-screen consultant, Gok Wan, is now an institution on our screens. Not only has Gok appeared in a further six series, he has also hosted three series of Gok’s Fashion Fix with a follow on programme now running into its second series called Gok’s Clothes Roadshow; Get The Look For Less. Gok has also filmed a moving documentary on child obesity Too Fat Too Young and explored the modern day issues our teenagers are facing in Gok’s Teen’s: The Naked Truth. His on screen triumph has led to four book deals, the latest of which is his autobiography ‘Through Thick and Thin’.

‘Witty, honest and inspirational!’ ***** Woman’s Own

As funny as it is moving…a fab read’ ***** Closer

Furthermore, Gok has also been paid the unlikely compliment of “… man I’d be most likely to leave my husband for”, and “Ultimate celebrity bridesmaid!”. Remark’s, that when you consider his personable screen manner, workable take on fashion and innate ability to make women look and feel good about themselves suddenly takes on substantial rationale.

He has now crystallized his position as a true champion for women with the launch of his own women’s wear collection for Sainsbury’s. Released to critical acclaim, it went on to brake UK sales records upon its release in October 2011 allowing women up and down the country to fulfill their dreams and get well and truly Gok’d!

Born in 1974 in Leicester, Gok has worked in the fashion industry for the best part of a decade. Studying at London’s prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, he found himself drawn to hair and make-up over drama, prompting his entrée into the fashion industry and gaining him early work as a hair and make-up artist on titles such as The Sunday Times Style. Finding himself dissatisfied with beauty alone, however, Gok decided to pursue his love of clothes as a fashion stylist. Sixteen years on his talent and tenacity has seen him build up quite a pedigree: he has worked with some of the world’s most renowned photographers (Rankin, Mike Owen, Tony McGee, Jason Joyce, Elise Dumontet and Arthur Elgot), had his work published internationally (Glamour, The Face, The Times Style, Cosmopolitan, Afisha Mir and People Magazine US), amassed an enviable celebrity client-base (Bryan Ferry, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Vanessa Mae, Damien Lewis and All Saints to name a few) and consulted as a host of television shows including GMTV (ITV1), Battle of The Sexes (BBC1), TV Book Club (Channel 4), Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young (Radio 4), How To Look Good – With A Difference (Channel 4), and The Friday Night Project (Channel 4).

Despite Gok’s growing status as one of the UK’s most sought- after stylists and fashion ‘gurus’, he remains far from blasé (though a little mischievous) about his achievements, especially where his celebrity clients are concerned: “I never dreamt as a child that the people I danced around my bedroom singing to and tried to emulate style-wise, I’d one day get to tell what to wear!”