With his memoir Through Thick and Thin (you can surely see what he’s done there?), Mr Wan recalls his upbringing on a Leicester housing estate. His folks ran a Chinese restaurant which might have something to do with the fact that Gok bloomed to some 21 stone when he was a teenager. Find out how he conquered that as well as the bullying he suffered for being a young, gay Asian man.

Waterstone’s, Edinburgh, Sat 13 Nov.