[4] After finishing drama school, Gould embarked on a career as an actor and landed a small role in the 1984 fantasy film and infamous Box-office bomb Sheena, but his appearance was cut in the editing process.
[3] He spent the next decade working various restaurant jobs, plus stints as a motorcycle dispatch rider and house painter, with his most significant acting gig being the lead in a production of Macbeth that went on a 3-month tour of Japan.
[3] In September 1994 Gould made the move into presenting after an introduction arranged by school friend Jonathan Maitland, joining Cable 17 TV, a Telewest channel for viewers in south-west London.
These included Todd Macklin, Josh Chetwynd, David Lengel and Mike Carlson, the channel's regular NFL analyst.
Although BrainTeaser aired at 12:30 pm and the baseball coverage ended in the early hours, an unanticipated clash occurred in October 2005 when Game 3 of the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Houston Astros went to 14 innings, causing the match to end at 7 am UK time, resulting in his missing the train to Bristol to record BrainTeaser.
In January 2018, while hosting a charity auction for the President's Club in London, he was quoted in the Financial Times as welcoming people to "the most un-PC event of the year".