Chris Ayres Biography
Chris Ayres is a scriptwriter, author, and contributing editor at British GQ. Recent work for British GQ by Ayres has featured a long-form essay about Donald Trump’s friendship with Mike Tyson in the late 1980s and an in-depth profile of Instagram star Dan Bilzerian.
Chris Ayres Age
He was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1975.
Chris Ayres Education
Ayres attended The University of Hull, where the Chris Ayres Prize in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics is named after him, and then went on to get a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism at City University in London.
Chris Ayres Wife- Spouse
He now resides in Los Angeles with his wife, an interior designer named Lucie, and their two daughters.
Chris Ayres Career
He co-wrote Ozzy Osbourne’s memoir I Am Ozzy, which went on to become a New York Times Best-Seller. He has sold scripts to Apple TV+, the CBS network, and Ingenious Media, the latter in collaboration with XIX Entertainment and Endeavor Content. Recent work for British GQ by Ayres has featured a long-form essay about Donald Trump’s friendship with Mike Tyson in the late 1980s and an in-depth profile of Instagram star Dan Bilzerian. War Reporting for Cowards, first published in 2005, is an account of being embedded with a forward reconnaissance unit of the United States Marine Corps in the run-up to and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
At the time, Ayres was in his late twenties and working as an entertainment reporter for The Times of London. Michiko Kakutani described the book in The New York Times as “hilarious,” adding that it “reads as though Larry David had rewritten ‘MASH’ and Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scoop’ as a comic television episode, even as it provides the reader with a visceral picture of the horrors of combat and the peculiar experience of being an embedded reporter.” Today, journalism schools teach War Reporting for Cowards. On a deeper level, War Reporting for Cowards provides an insightful glimpse into Chris’ generation and their approach to fear, courage, and an increasingly dangerous world.
From 2002 to 2010, Ayres was the Times of London’s Los Angeles bureau chief, eventually becoming a contributing editor at The Sunday Times Magazine (London)[9] and British GQ. For numerous years, he co-wrote a Rolling Stone column with Ozzy Osbourne. At the British Press Awards, Ayres was nominated for Foreign Correspondent of the Year in 2004 and Feature Writer of the Year in 2015. In 2016, he was nominated for Writer of the Year by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA). At the Guys Choice Awards in 2010, I Am Ozzy got the Literary Achievement award.
Chris Ayres Net Worth
Chris has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.