Josh Tapper, a star of the Channel 4 show Gogglebox and great-great-grandson of the founder of Bloom’s restaurant, has been selected as Labour’s candidate in Hertsmere where he will take on Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden.
He will have to pull off a major political shock to reach Parliament as the Conservative incumbent enjoys a majority of 16.951.
His family were one of the original participants on Gogglebox, where armchair critics comment on TV programmes, when it began in 2013.
After graduating from Yavneh College, he won an apprenticeship to work in the Cabinet Office during Theresa May’s premiership, went into the Civil Service and later joined the think tank Demos.
