Gok Wan - Career

Career

Over the past 10 years, he has worked with many celebrities including Bryan Ferry, All Saints, Damian Lewis, Erasure, Vanessa Mae, Wade Robson, Lauren Laverne, Wet Wet Wet, and Johnny Vaughan. He also offered his opinions to magazines, becoming a fashion consultant, and his work has been published internationally in several magazines, which include Tatler, Glamour, Times Style, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The Face, Afisha Mir, Clash and People. He has also worked with photographers such as Rankin, Mike Owen and Jason Joyce.

He has also worked as an "on-screen" fashion consultant on many television shows including: MTV Shakedown (MTV Europe), GMTV (ITV), LK Today (ITV), Big Brother's Little Brother (Channel 4), Battle of the Sexes (BBC1), The Wright Stuff (Five), Make Me a Grown Up (Channel 4/T4), The Xtra Factor (ITV2) and T4 (Channel 4).

In 2006, he was approached by Channel 4 and asked to present his own fashion show, How to Look Good Naked. In addition, he wrote a book to accompany the series, entitled How to Look Good Naked: Shop For Your Shape and Look Amazing!, that was published in April 2007. A second series was commissioned and was broadcast on Channel 4 in mid-2007. Along with the second series, he appeared on The New Paul O'Grady Show, in which he persuaded Paul O'Grady to strip "naked". A third series was shown in early 2008. His new series, entitled Gok's Fashion Fix was broadcast on Channel 4 in mid-2008. Wan is noted for his enthusiastic use of the words "literally" and "bangers" (his word for breasts).

He wrote a book titled How to Dress: Your Complete Style Guide for Every Occasion which was released by HarperCollins on 1 October 2008. The book was praised by both Heat magazine and Closer for its sensitive and feel-good approach to a style guide. He also has contracts with lingerie firm SimplyYours.co.uk where he has a range of shapewear lingerie, including a 'banger booster' bra, and Dorothy Perkins, which has instore and online tips from Gok on styling its clothing lines.

His next series Miss Naked Beauty, which he co-presented with Myleene Klass, was broadcast in October and November 2008. The series attracted controversy after Wan hosed semi-naked women, causing critics to question the motives behind the series; Amanda Platell described it as "vulgarity masquerading as self-help".

Wan presented a documentary which was first broadcast on 27 January 2009, enitled Too Fat Too Young, examining overweight kids in the UK. He reflected on his experience of being obese to help these teenagers. In 2010, he started working with actresses Laila Rouass and Jo Brand, along with two other celebrity faces, for a new series of TV Book Club for Channel Four.

Wan was voted as the 100th sexiest man in the world by readers of SoFeminine.co.uk in 2010.

He has now begun a new series, a new version of Gok's Fashion Fix called Gok Wan's Clothes Roadshow, in which he makes affordable high street fashions, while Brix Smith styles designer clothes. At the end of a show is a fashion show, where they show their styles to the people who live where the show takes place. A different place is visited each week.

In 2011 he has now showing a second series of Gok Wan's Clothes Roadshow but it differs from the first series as Goks himself styles two sets of four outfits for two different prices, one set for £50 and another for £250. It does still travel around to different places each week and they audience still votes for which collection they like best.

In 2012 he starred in a new TV series called Gok's Teens:The Naked Truth on Channel 4 where he gives advice to troubled teens about self-confidence, bullying, anxiety and eating disorders.

He also started a 6 week series on May 21, 2012 called Gok Cooks Chinese on Channel 4. Gok is joined by his father John on the show. Various Chinese dishes are showcased on the show which features healthy, quick home cooking devised by Gok.

In Autumn 2012 Gok presented the hit TV show 'baggage ', reportedly named after his pet cat of the same name.