Richard Osman fans shocked as they discover his brother is member of iconic UK rock band

TV star and host Richard Osman rose to fame thanks to BBC1 quiz Pointless and is now also a renowned author.

Last week, the 53-year-old published his novel "We Solve Murders" and his hit book "The Thursday Murder Club" is being made into a Netflix film. But while his writing career is taking off, not many people know that the presenter has an older brother who became a major music star in the 90s.

Mat Osman, 56, is best known as the bassist in English rock band Suede. The band was founded in London in 1989 by Mat alongside singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Justine Frischmann and bass player Mat Osman. After learning who Mat is, one fan wrote on Twitter/X: "OK but who else was aware that Richard Osman's brother was Mat Osman from Suede?"

"so who was gonna tell me that richard osman author bloke and mat osman suede bloke were brothers," another mused, with a third adding: "Today I learned that Mat Osman of Suede is Richard Osman’s brother. Every day a school day (for me)."

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Suede was a major band in the 90s and was part of the Britpop "big four" alongside Oasis, Blur and Pulm. Some of their best songs are "Metal Mickey" and "Animal Nitrate", which were released in 1993, and "Stay Together", which came out in 1994. The band split up in 2003 after the release of their fifth album, "A New Morning", but reunited in 2010 for a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Since then, they have released four studio albums and two live albums.

Currently, only Mat and Brett remain from the original founding line-up - and play alongside drummer Simon Gilbert, Richard Oakes, and Neil Codling. Richard previously discussed the band during an interview, telling "The Douglas Anderson Show": "I have always been a fan. And then it broke for them very, very big in the early 90s, and it was amazing."

It comes as Richard vowed to continue writing his hit crime novels for another 30 years following the success of his Thursday Murder Club series of books, which have sold millions of copies. And fans of the series are likely to have plenty more stories in the coming years as Richard now sees writing as his main job.

Richard said: "Writing to me now is, I just sit in a room – which I thought would be the worst thing in the world, just me – I actually kind of love it. And then, at the end of the process of the book, you get to sit and chat to nice people, and I enjoy that bit too. But yeah, writing is the thing, that's my heart, you know? And it always has been. So, it’s nice that that’s become the new career.

"It's been an absolute dream. And you know, over here I know I'm known from TV, but it’s lovely that over in America and Germany and Brazil and Japan people – because they don't know who I am, they've never heard of Pointless celebrities – so the fact that they respond to it and love the stories and characters. And lovely to be able to launch a whole new series as well. And to think I get to do this for another 25, 30 years, as long as I've got, because I love doing it and I love making people laugh and, you know, murder mysteries, and I love the warmth of the thing. So yeah, it's really the absolute dream."

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