[2] Dickens attended Huntleys Secondary School for Boys in Royal Tunbridge Wells and West Kent College.

In 2009, Dickens' American tour included such Christmas companies as Vaillancourt Folk Art[4] and Byers Choice[5] and has yielded national and local press.

[11] A keen golfer, he wrote and performs the two-act play Top Hole!, based on four golfing stories by P. G. Wodehouse.

In 2004, Dickens won the British TV show The Weakest Link during its 8th season in an episode where the contestants all had famous ancestors.

[16][17] Gerald Dickens lived in Goudhurst in Kent with his former wife Lucy Marsh, with whom he had a son, Cameron.