LOUIS THEROUX  Oxford Borders, November 2005 Pix courtesy of GJH Swaine Photography TV presenter,  Louis Theroux,  has never been one to shy away from the weirder side of life. In fact, he has made his name interviewing eccentric characters. You may have seen his more popular programs where he gets in deep with former shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe and ex-boxer Chris Eubank.  Previous subjects have notably included Sir Jimmy Savile and magician Paul Daniels.  In earlier series, he plumbed the depths of American society, rubbing shoulders with the Ku Klux Klan and alien hunters. The son of travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux, he was born in Uganda before going to school in London.  After graduating from Oxford University, he decided to spend time in America with his older brother Marcel, who is also a writer.  Following in the family footsteps, Theroux become a journalist on the satirical magazine Spy in New York. His television break came when he joined baseball cap-wearing Michael Moore on the TV Nation show,  interviewing the weird and wonderful. Theroux joined the BBC in 1995 and embarked on a television journey which would see him travel to the corners of America in search of quirky characters. The first series of Weird Weekends received critical acclaim as he found ever stranger folk to film.   Glamour Puss graphics courtesy of Lone's Return to Glamour Puss Index