Richard Osman's life derailed by heartbreaking childhood struggle with famous brother

Richard Osman, known for co-hosting Pointless and being the writer of The Thursday Murder Club series, has opened up astir his puerility with his celebrated instrumentalist brother

Richard Osman whitethorn beryllium a acquainted look among TV and publication fans, but helium isn’t the lone celebrated look successful his family.

As good arsenic presenting Pointless and Richard Osman’s House of Games, the 54-year-old has forged an highly palmy vocation arsenic an writer acknowledgment to his bestselling series, The Thursday Murder Club. He is besides the co-host of The Rest Is Entertainment alongside Marina Hyde and the brace precocious took their podcast to the Royal Albert Hall for their first-ever show.

But it turns retired that the TV property isn’t the lone idiosyncratic successful his household who’s performed successful beforehand of thousands. Richard’s brother, Mat Osman, is the bass subordinate successful the set Suede.

Having formed successful 1989, the Britpop radical are known for hits including Animal Nitrate and Pantomime Horse. Since releasing their debut medium successful 1993, the radical person secured 3 UK fig 1 albums.

Growing up, the brothers were raised by their azygous mum. “It was the worst happening that ever happened to me,” Richard antecedently told The Mirror.

“He [his father] conscionable near and I didn't spot him again for 20 years - that's hard. When you're a kid increasing up you're each close truthful agelong arsenic you person a genitor who loves and cares for you. It is lone erstwhile you get older that you realise you truly missed that antheral relation model.

“It derails you and it takes a agelong clip to get backmost connected track. It takes you a batch longer to mature and find yourself.”

He continued: “Everyone has hard times, it's conscionable however you respond to them. Adversities erstwhile you're increasing up are the things that marque you, sometimes they go a strength. But it's ne'er good, it's ever awful.”

During an interrogation connected Virgin Radio the brace spoke fondly of their upbringing and revealed that their mother, who worked arsenic a teacher, ne'er pushed them into pursuing a definite path. Instead, she fto them travel their ain interests.

“All my mum truly did was permission america alone, to archer you the truth. Kids these days, they’ve got to bash soft lessons oregon French lessons. She worked retired that Mat liked music, she worked retired that I liked watching telly and penning stuff. And she conscionable fto america bash it, I think, and she loved us,” the Pointless prima explained.

Meanwhile, Mat, 57, added: “I deliberation the happening is that your kids are ne'er never going to bash what you privation them to do. So it's pointless forcing them into something. She conscionable fto america be, and we recovered our ain passions, we recovered the things that we wanted.”

In different interview, the instrumentalist opened up astir the differences betwixt himself and his younger brother. “The biggest quality betwixt my world and his is that Rick has nary involvement successful being cool. And helium ne'er has - it’s rather impressive,” helium told The Guardian successful 2023.

“At the property of 15 helium was penning for a golf magazine. He loves Saturday nighttime TV. He loves Ant and Dec. He loves Busted. He doesn’t privation to beryllium Martin Scorsese. And I’ve got truthful overmuch respect for that.”

Despite their differences, the pair’s vocation paths person crossed implicit the years and, successful summation to being a founding subordinate of Suede, Mat is besides a published author. Two years ago, the brothers took portion successful a treatment astatine Hay Festival wherever they spoke astir turning their hands to fiction.

“Such a large lawsuit @hayfestival yesterday with my @matosman, talking astir #GhostTheatre and #ThursdayMurderClub. Thanks to the superb audience, and to everyone who braved the signing queue. Really peculiar day,” Richard wrote connected Instagram.

But Richard’s enactment for his member isn’t conscionable constricted to his writing. Over the years the podcast big has gushed implicit Mat’s chart-topping euphony vocation too, telling The Douglas Anderson Show: “I person ever been a fan. And past it broke for them very, precise large successful the aboriginal 90s, and it was amazing.”