Richard Gadd has asked fans to stop speculating over the inspiration for his Netflix series
Richard Gadd plays the lead in the series, and has said it is based on his own experiences of being stalked and sexually abused by a high profile comedy agent.
The hard-hitting adaptation of the play by the same name sees the Scottish comedian retell his own true story of being stalked over the course of several years, as well as his account of sexual abuse.
Hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer has hit a giant milestone just hours after Richard Gadd jovially derided his show losing Netflix's top spot in Colombia.
The Netflix series depicts the true story of a stalker who harassed Gadd over a number of years.
The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?Baby Reindeer was only released a little over a week ago, and already it has become a sensation. Richard Gadd’s adaptation of his 2019 Edinburgh festival one-man show, which in turn was a dramatisation of the ordeals he had been through at the hands of a stalker and a powerful abuser respectively,...
Netflix’s new hit show "Baby Reindeer," a drama based on a true story, written and created by stand-up comedian Richard Gadd, adeptly explores how desire and intimacy’s relationship to shame becomes more deeply entrenched and harder to disentangle for those who have survived sexual abuse and other traumas. In real life, Gadd not only was stalked by a woman for four years — Variety counts “41,071 emails, 350 hours of voicemail, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages and 106 pages of letters” — but he...
Richard Gadd's asking amateur detectives to put down their magnifying glasses in trying to dissect his new Netflix show 'cause people are getting falsely accused and ID'd. The actor's smash-hit series, "Baby Reindeer," draws from his real-life…
LGBTQ+ Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd has opened up about his
Pity was the first emotion Richard Gadd felt when he clapped eyes on the woman who would become his stalker. He was a struggling stand-up comic working behind the bar at a pub in London.
A comedian wrote a hit TV series about his real experiences with being stalked. Now, he’s asking fans of the show to stop sleuthing themselves. "Baby Reindeer" showrunner and star Richard Gadd previously told Variety that his show, which follows a character named Donny who gets stalked, is “emotionally 100% true." But the fictional stalker character, Martha, is not meant to resemble her real-life counterpart. In fact, Gadd told GQ that the show went to “such great lengths to disguise [his...
The owners of a popular Edinburgh pub have said they were thrilled to feature in a new Netflix drama. The Hoppy, on Marionville Road, was used as one of the locations for Baby Reindeer, a seven-part series about a comedian who ends up being stalked. It's based on a one-man Edinburgh Fringe play which depicts the real experiences of creator Richard Gadd, who had to deal with a female stalker who showed up at his house and sent him thousands of messages. The series, which came to Netflix last...