FASHION guru Gok Wan is coming to Wrexham to rate the town’s fashion hits and misses next month.
The TV style expert will be holding an open audition and is asking Wrexham residents to bring items from their wardrobe for him to look at.
He will later determine who should undergo a full fashion makeover.
Gok will be in the town on Sunday, March 21 but the venue and time have yet to be decided.
Richard Dyson, senior researcher from Endemol UK, makers of Gok’s Fashion Fix for Channel Four said: “We want to get a crowd together so ladies and gents can meet Gok and show their worst clothing items.
“Gok will ask them to chat through their wardrobes and will be giving advice.
“Gok will choose who should get the makeover which will happen in London.
“Wrexham is one of the first places we are coming to.
“Gok’s on a mission to banish the nation’s wardrobe disasters and is travelling round the country to find the woman or man who needs his help the most.”
Gok facts:
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Gok Wan was born in Leicester in September 1974 to a Chinese father, John Tung Shing, and an English mother, Myra.
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He was bullied as a child for being mixed race, tall, overweight and gay.
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He was drawn to performing arts and as a teenager enrolled on a course at the Charles Keene College of Further Education. After gaining a diploma, he began attending the Central School of Speech and Drama, but dropped out because his weight was affecting his confidence.
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When he was 20, Wan began a crash diet and lost nearly half his weight in several months.
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Over the next 10 years he forged his career as a fashion consultant and in 2006 he was approached by Channel 4 and asked to present the show which made him famous – How to Look Good Naked.