Richard Osman sought professional help for a health struggle that he says made him “feel like a freak”. The former Pointless presenter says he began struggling with a food addiction when he was just nine years old when his father David left home. Richard, 55, says he would find himself “overeating” as a way to “control my life”. He describes the problem as “secret” and “shameful” but says he was of a generation where he would have tried to “buck up” and deal with it if he “just felt discontent”.