[2] After his education at Shene Grammar School in Richmond, and at the University of Reading, Bextor worked at the Dimbleby-owned Richmond and Twickenham Times before joining Thames Television and then the BBC, where he produced and directed documentaries, including an RTS award-winning film on blind parents and entertainment programmes including That's Life!.
He is a majority shareholder of the Soho post production business Vivid, responsible for programmes on the England football team, Test cricket and Fulham FC, as well as many arts subjects.
Bextor has also had a successful career as a writer, writing for newspapers and magazines and the book to accompany the TV series Crown and Country.
He has made films on 10cc (Clever Clogs), Squeeze, Cara Dillon, the French band Air, and The Feeling, with Kiefer Sutherland.
In the 2019 European Parliament Election in May 2019, Bextor was selected as a party list member for Change UK in the South East England constituency of the United Kingdom.