 In 2006, Channel 4 employed him to present his own television show, "How to Look Good Naked", which lasted for seven series.Moving into other genres, he presented a series of documentaries on social problems among young people, drawing on his personal battles with obesity and homophobia, and presented a Chinese cooking show entitled "Gok Cooks Chinese".Gok Wan was born in Leicester, to an English mother, Myra, and a Chinese father, John Tung Shing Wan, who was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to England at age 16.