Quiz Show Stalker: Angry Author Drives 400 Miles to Attack Online Critic Imagine being so incensed by somebody on the internet that you drive 400 miles (after tracking them down online) to hit them over the head with a wine bottle at their place of work… This is the story of Richard Brittain - the thin-skinned author who bottled one of his critics after his novel The World Rose sent her to sleep. This is also the story of a former television gameshow champion, a university graduate, a poet and a writer who was destroyed by his obsessions and narcissism. This is Richard before the media had any whiff of his violent malevolence. Richard Brittain first came to public attention on the 11th of September 2006, as a nineteen-year-old. The show is the British game show Countdown. An institution for the out-of-work and early finishers in the UK. Richard won the coveted Countdown teapot and was invited back on a further 7 occasions (the maximum allowed is 8 victories) and entered the panth
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