Gok Wan
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Gok Wan
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| Born |
Ko-Hen Wan 9 September 1974 Leicester, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation |
Fashion stylist Television presenter |
| Employer | Channel 4, ITV |
| Television |
How to Look Good Naked Gok's Fashion Fix Miss Naked Beauty Gok's Clothes Roadshow Gok Cooks Chinese Baggage This Morning Gok's Fill Your House For Free |
| Website | Official website |
Gok Wan (born Ko-Hen Wan; Chinese: 溫國興; Cantonese Jyutping: Wan1 gwok3 hing3; 9 September 1974) is an English fashion consultant, author and television presenter.
Initially training in the performing arts at the Central School of Speech and Drama, he then entered the fashion business, writing for popular fashion magazines and appearing on various television shows. In 2006, Channel 4 employed him to present his own television show, How to Look Good Naked, which lasted for three series. Moving into other genres, he presented a series of documentaries on social problems among young people, drawing on his personal experiences with obesity and homophobia, and presented a Chinese cooking show entitled Gok Cooks Chinese.
Gok Wan was born Ko-Hen Wan in Leicester, England, to an English mother, Myra, and a Chinese father, John Tung Shing Wan, who was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to England at age 16. He grew up in Whetstone, Leicestershire, where he worked in his parents' restaurant. Wan stood out from his peers from a young age and endured bullying from other children due to the fact that he was mixed race, tall, overweight and gay.
During his teenage years he weighed as much as 21 stone (133 kg, 294 lb), later commenting that he was "really fat". He was drawn to performing arts with aspirations of becoming an actor, and after leaving Babington Community College he began attending a course at the Charles Keene College of Further Education. Wan received a diploma from the college, then enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama and continued to study performing arts. However, the other students had backgrounds very different from his and he felt that his weight was beginning to dictate his life, later saying:
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