About Tom

With his signature acerbic wit and riotous storytelling, Tom Allen has cemented himself as a household name and star on both stage and screen. He’s the hilarious host of The Apprentice: You’re Fired, he co-hosts Cooking with the Stars alongside Emma Willis and is also a regular on Bake Off: An Extra Slice.

Other television appearances for Tom include Live at the Apollo, A League of Their Own, Hypothetical, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Cats Does Countdown, Would I Lie to You, The Last Leg, QI, The Jonathan Ross Show, The Royal Variety Performance, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Celebrity Gogglebox, Wheel of Fortune, The Piano and much more.

Tom can be heard on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds as the host of Monsters of Music, in which he explores the scandalous lives of classical music’s legends, as well as shows Tom Allen Is Actually Not Very Nice, Just a Minute, The News Quiz, and Loose Ends. Tom also co-hosts the hit podcast Like Minded Friends alongside his comedy peer Suzi Ruffell.

If he wasn’t busy enough, 2020 saw the release of Tom’s critically acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller memoir, No Shame, and last year Tom’s subsequent memoir, Too Much, followed and was described by the Guardian as ‘heartfelt, vulnerable and touchingly sincere’. Both are available in hardback and audiobook.

Tom’s sold-out Completely tour of 2023 and 2024 was extended multiple times, selling over a hundred and fifty thousand tickets, including two nights at the Eventim Apollo, which was filmed and broadcast on ITV.